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Red Arrow creates drama venture with Andy Serkis

Red Arrow Entertainment is creating a high-end drama initiative with Lord of the Rings actor Andy Serkis. Red Arrow and Serkis’ company The Imaginarium Studios are creating a production unit that will develop TV drama for the international market. They are currently recruiting a senior level executive to manage the initiative’s development slate. Red Arrow […]

Fox in a Rusch for event series

Fox Broadcasting in the US has hired Fabrik Entertainment’s Rachel Rusch to become its executive VP of event series. Rusch rejoins the 21st Century Fox business having more recently been director of development at Red Arrow Entertainment-owned producer Fabrik Entertainment, where she produced Amazon’s procedural Bosch. At Fox she will oversee all limited run programming. […]

Red Arrow brings in business affairs boss

Germany-based Red Arrow Entertainment has gone in-house to hire a managing director for business affairs. Martin Metzger comes across from Red Arrow parent ProSiebenSat.1 Group, where he was most recently VP, production law. He is also MD of ProSiebenSat.1 Artist Management Agency. Metzger will report to Red Arrow CEO Jan Frouman, who said: “Martin is […]

Russia sets out House Rules

Russian free-to-air broadcaster Ren TV has commissioned a local version of Red Arrow International’s Australian format House Rules. The reality competition show sees couples hand over keys to their home to other competitors in order to attempt to have their entire mortgages paid off after a complete household renovation. Each week judges score the renovators’ […]

Channel 4 poaches Red Arrow exec for int’nl push

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has poached a Red Arrow UK scripted boss to lead a new push in to international drama coproduction. Simon Maxwell has been named head of international drama and will invest in coproduced dramas as part of a new strategy that will see overseas writers and talent come to Channel 4 and […]

ProSiebenSat.1 buys stake in US multichannel operator

Germany’s ProSieben.1 Group has acquired a 20% stake in US-based multichannel network Collective Digital Studios. The news closely follows Disney’s deal to buy Maker Studios in a deal worth up to US$950 million and a series of other deals in the original digital video market. ProSiebenSat.1-owned global arm Red Arrow Entertainment is paying an undisclosed […]

Red Arrow buys US indie Half Yard

Munich-based Red Arrow Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in Say Yes to the Dress producer Half Yard Productions. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed, but reality specialist Half Yard will now sit alongside other US producers Kinetic Content, Fabrik Entertainment and Left/Right Productions in the Red Arrow fold. Half Yard is behind […]

Richter to lead FremantleMedia International

Red Arrow International’s managing director Jens Richter will take on the global distribution business of producer FremantleMedia next year. Richter has been appointed CEO of FremantleMedia International and will take up the job in December 2014 upon the ending of his current contract. He replaces David Ellender, who was one of a number of executives […]

Popp’s Producers at Work exits Red Arrow

Christian Popp is taking full control of Producers at Work, the German-based production company that was previously majority controlled by Red Arrow Entertainment Group. The move comes as Red Arrow revealed it is now focusing on English-language production, primarily in the UK and US. Popp created the company in 2005 and had a 25.1% stake […]

FRAPA members offered NATPE discount

Members of formats alliance FRAPA are being offered a US$375 discount for Miami’s NATPE confab. Under terms of a new pact between the organisations, FRAPA members can purchase tickets to the January 2014 event at a US$750 rate. The standard rate is US$1175. New FRAPA members that will be able to take advantage of the […]