Former Newen exec Dominic Schreiber has linked up with Clean Sweep producer Shinawil and Canada’s Reel One Entertainment on a new drama from A Patch Of Fog writers, Michael McCartney and John Cairns. Our Father, which has been selected for the copro pitching session at Series Mania on Tuesday, follows streetwise criminal Danny Burns, who […]
LA-based production and distribution company Nicely Entertainment has expanded into Arizona and hired Real One Entertainment’s David Hickey to run the new division. Hickey becomes head of production and will report into Nicely’s CEO Vanessa Shapiro, with a remit across all areas of the new oepration. He joins following a six-year tenure at Canada’s Real […]
LA-based STXtelevision has teamed with Newen’s Reel One Entertainment to develop and produce an English-language adaptation of Belgian drama Team Chocolate. The two companies have secured format rights from French independent distributor Wild Bunch TV and are planning a show for US audiences based on the Belgian series. The original show follows a young man […]
A+E Networks has taken a 35% stake in Reel One Entertainment, the Canadian producer-distributor owned by French group Newen. The deal, which will see Newen remain the majority owner of the firm, is designed to help Reel One to expand production and distribution in North America, as well as increasing more TV content. Reel One, which […]
Reel One Entertainment-backed Champlain Media has appointed former CTV and Spin Master exec Linda Stregger as its COO. Stregger will be based in the company’s Toronto office and reports to CEO Tom Berry, who owns the company with Newen’s Reel One, which in turn handles international distribution of Champlain’s slate. She will oversee development, production […]
Fauda writer Amir Mann is developing a new international drama series, Band of Spies, with Reel One Entertainment, Capa Drama and Israeli media group Ananey Communications and its subsidiary prodco Nutz. The eight-part returning series from Mann will tell the true stories of the Israeli Mossad agents responsible for hunting down members of the Palestinian […]
Newen Group has completed its acquisition of Canadian scripted producer-distributor Reel One Entertainment. The Department of Canadian Heritage approved the transaction last week, allowing Newen to complete the deal, which was first announced in July. Based in Montreal with offices in London, Los Angeles and Vancouver, Reel One develops, finances, produces and markets telefilms and […]
Newen Group’s acquisition of Reel One Entertainment sees the TF1 Group-backed producer-distributor look to crack the English-speaking market and exploit European IP in the US, Canada and UK. The deal marks the French firm’s first concrete move into the English-speaking market, having previously acquired the likes of Denmark’s Nimbus, as well as Dutch formats firm […]
French media giant Newen has acquired Canadian scripted producer-distributor Reel One Entertainment. Founded in 2001 by Tom Berry, Reel One specialises in licensing TV movies as well as developing and producing content for channels and streamers. With 90% of revenues generated outside Canada, the firm – which is headquartered in Montreal with offices in Los […]
LA-based producer and distributor Reel One Entertainment has appointed a former Hallmark Channel and Lifetime Channel executive to oversee its scripted programming. Barbara Fisher becomes executive VP of scripted content and will be based in the company’s LA office, reporting to CEO Tom Berry. She will oversee all of Reel One’s development and production activities […]
