Say Yes To The Dress producer Half Yard Productions has appointed Dirk Hoogstra as its CEO, with current chief and co-founder Sean Gallagher stepping down. Hoogstra, who was most recently EVP of development at the Red Arrow Studios-owned company, will assume the CEO role with immediate effect. Gallagher, meanwhile, has decided to step down after more than 14 […]
Private equity-backed German studio Leonine has hired Red Arrow Studios’ former group creative director Nina Etspueler to lead the fast-growing company’s entertainment interests and launch her own production label. She will join Leonine as head of entertainment development from 1 January and reports directly into CEO, Fred Kogel. Etspueler will oversee the development and cooperation of […]
LA-based, Red Arrow Studios-owned Studio71 has promoted its COO Adam Boorstin and CRO Matt Crowley to co-CEOs of the company. The two will start their new positions on 1 November, with current CEO and co-founder Reza Izad to become chairman. Boorstin joined the company in 2015 with the goal of expanding Studio71’s business beyond YouTube. […]
Youku snags Karga Seven’s Ottoman series Chinese streamer Youku is among those to have acquired the first season of docudrama series Rise Of Empires: Ottoman, which was first available via Netflix. The show is produced by Red Arrow Studios-owned Karga Seven Pictures in association with LA-based STXtv, which has also struck deals with SIC in Portugal […]
Red Arrow Studios (RAS) is backing a new US-based drama outfit that has been launched by Chris Coelen, the founder of its Love Is Blind prodco Kinetic Content, with WME partner Melissa Myers named as president. The venture, which is yet to be named, will focus on high-end English-language scripted TV series with both domestic […]
ITV, France TV order Brook Lapping 9/11 doc ITV and France Televisions have ordered a feature-length documentary exploring the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, with Zinc Media Group’s Brook Lapping producing. 9/11: We Have Some Planes (working title, 1 x 90 minutes) will feature previously unheard audio and images from the day of […]
US cablenet Lifetime has made one of its largest ever commitments by ordering six further seasons of Red Arrow Studios’ format Married At First Sight (MAFS), as well as two spin-offs from the show. The six-season run of Married At First Sight will again be produced by Love Is Blind prodco Kinetic Content and will […]
Doubts have emerged over the future of Love Is Blind and Deep State producer Red Arrow Studio (RAS), after creative chief Nina Etspueler became the latest senior executive to step down from the ProSiebenSat.1-owned firm. Etspueler had been group creative director at Red Arrow for 18 months, having been promoted in February 2019 following the […]
France’s M6 builds Lego Masters deal M6 in France has become the eighth broadcaster to order a local version of entertainment format Lego Masters. The show will be produced by Endemol Shine France, having originally been created by Tuesday’s Child Productions, The Lego Group and Endemol Shine Group, now part of Banijay. The latter is […]
Red Arrow Studios (RAS) CEO James Baker is to step down at the end of the year after almost a decade with the ProSiebenSat.1-owned company. The German outfit said that Baker, whose contract will not be renewed past 2020, will be replaced by an advisory board comprising of ProSiebenSat.1’s chairman Rainer Beaujean, CEO at SevenOne […]
