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Outline Productions
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Outline Productions co-founder Helen Veale exits, Blink Films duo to assume slate
Outline Productions co-founder and creative director Helen Veale is stepping down after almost 25 years…
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Welsh indie Wildflame recruits Outline exec as production head & rejigs team
Welsh factual indie Wildflame Productions has appointed Wiliam Gruffydd Edwards as head of production and…
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News round-up: Talpa & Studio Glam ink first-look deal; Series Mania names jury president; C4 picks up ‘Remarkable Places To Eat’
Talpa & Studio Glam ink first-look deal John de Mol’s Dutch format firm Talpa Concepts…
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Tin Roof names former Banijay boss as executive chairman
Tin Roof Media has appointed former Banijay and The Ink Factory senior exec Rod Henwood…
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News roundup: Wheelhouse and LOL to co-pro; UK’s C4 orders rural property show; Ryan Saul joins The Cartel
Wheelhouse and Laugh Out Loud sign co-pro deal Wheelhouse Entertainment and Laugh Out Loud have…
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Movistar, DLO/Magnolia adapt BBC format ‘No More Boys and Girls’
Spanish broadcaster Movistar has ordered a local version of BBC format No More Boys and…
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Formats round-up: ‘Guess My Age’ in Greece; Movistar+ adapts ‘No More Boys…’
Greece to adapt Vivendi’s ‘Guess My Age’ Greek commercial broadcaster Skai has ordered a local…
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Ulla Streib joins Tin Roof’s Blink and Outline
Indie investment group Tin Roof Media has hired Ulla Streib in the new role of…
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Ex-Reef MD Hanrahan joins Tin Roof Media
Former Reef Television managing director Paul Hanrahan has joined another UK-based producer, Tin Roof Media,…
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Investment group Tin Roof buys Outline
Tin Roof Media has bought a majority stake in House of Tiny Tearaways indie Outline…
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Naked hires ex-Fox TV Studios UK chief
Simon Andreae’s production company, Naked Entertainment, has appointed former Fox Television Studios UK managing director…
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DRG binds with Screen Glue in first-look deal
Britain-based distributor DRG has scored first-look rights to shows from UK-based producer Screen Glue, TBI…
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DRG, Outline in major content pact
Distributor DRG has entered into a content partnership agreement with Outline Productions, the UK indie…
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Boomerang poaches Outline’s Baldwin
Wales-based producer Boomerang has hired Outline Productions executive Shona Baldwin as director of development. Reporting…
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Appetite for Kerridge cooking shows grows in Oz, US
Broadcasters in Australia and the US are among buyers of British cooking series from celebrity…
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Sky 1 tends to 8pm slot with garden series
UK satellite channel Sky 1 HD has given the greenlight to a competition reality series…
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Buccaneer Media hires unscripted boss
Buccaneer Media has recruited Ross McCarthy as its head of unscripted. The role is a…
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UK indie outline hires development chief from Studio Lambert
Outline Productions has poached Studio Lambert’s head of format development Shona Baldwin. At UK-based independent…
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Endemol prodco poaches BBC factual pair
Endemol-owned doc specialist Tigress Productions has hired a pair of BBC factual execs as it…
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Hat Trick bringing its first Outline series to market
UK broadcaster BBC2 has ordered Great British Garden Revival from Outline Productions. It will be…
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Outline scores Hat Trick distribution deal
The programme sales arm of UK-based producer Hat Trick has inked a deal with Outline…
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Hat Trick poaches Wipeout exec from Endemol
Hat Trick has recruited Andy Rowe from Endemol and he will join the UK indie…
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BBC Two orders Proper Pub Food
Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge will front a BBC Two series on how to cook the…
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BBC Worldwide commissions Really Cool Stuff
BBC Worldwide has ordered a fact-ent series for its international channels, Really Cool Stuff (WT)….
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BBC1 investigates threatened wildlife
UK pubcaster BBC1 has commissioned a wildlife series in which experts will lead a a…
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BBC Worldwide orders original series for international channels
BBC Worldwide has ordered Million Dollar Intern, an original fact-ent series for its international channels….