ITV Studios has rebranded its production label Shiver as MultiStory Media, as part of a move to reflect the broader range of content the Come Dine With Me producer is now making. In the past 18 months, MultiStory Media has produced new and returning formats for a range of channels and platforms. They include Piers Morgan […]
Channel 5 has commissioned ITV Studios-owned production label Shiver for a six-part doc series on aerobatic squadron the Red Arrows. The channel has ordered a 6 x 60-minute series entitled The Red Arrows: Kings Of The Sky, which is to air on 9 January at 9pm. The Red Arrows are the world’s most renowned aerobatic […]
Shiver, the ITV Studios label, has appointed Channel 4 (C4) commissioning editor Simone Haywood to the newly created role of head of factual entertainment. Haywood will work with group creative director Ana De Moraes, who was hired by MD Tim Carter in January, and her new development team to create returnable formats. It is the […]
ITV Studios factual arm Shiver has named Love Productions exec Aidan Hansell as head of development. Hansell (left) will report in to group creative director Ana De Moraes who, along with managing director Tim Carter, oversees Shiver’s development strategy. Hansell will lead the new development team in London and Manchester. As head of development at […]
There’s a new chief at Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP)’s UK prodco Twenty Twenty. Creative director Emma Willis (pictured) has been promoted to managing director to replace Tim Carter, who is moving to become MD of ITV Studios-owned prodco Shiver. At the same time, Hana Canter is promoted to business director, handing her overall […]
Tim Carter, Twenty Twenty’s current CEO, is set to join ITV Studios’ factual label Shiver as managing director. He will lead the label with offices in London, Manchester and Leeds, and oversee approximately 300 hours of production a year. Carter will work on shows such as Come Dine With Me, Peston on Sunday and The […]
FremantleMedia North America has scored a production deal with US prodco Tent City Entertainment, to-line news in today’s round up. The deal will see FremantleMedia’s US arm working with Tent City co-founders and former LMNO Productions execs Lori Rothschild Ansaldi and Lisa Bourgoujian (pictured) on true crime programming. LA-based Tent City is known for shows […]
Former Warner Bros. Television Production UK exec Mark Rubens has joined Shiver, the factual specialist from the ITV Studios stable. Rubens has been named head of documentary. He will work on developing new doc formats and specials and report to Alexander Gardiner, Shiver’s managing director. He joins having previously launched Warner Bros.-owned Watershed Television and […]
ITV Studios-owned factual prodco Shiver has poached Richard Hastings from BBC Entertainment. Hastings (pictured) will become creative director, factual entertainment, formats and daytime at the UK-based Come Dine With Me producer. He joins ITV’s production arm from the entertainment wing of UK pubcaster the BBC, where he was head of factual entertainment development. His new […]
US arts and culture channel Ovation has acquired UK lifestyle series 60 Minute Makeover. The 40x60mins interior design show will debut on the cable net in early March after it bought the series from UK distributor ITV Studios Global Entertainment. 60 Minute Makeover is produced by ITV-owned prodco Shiver. In the series a crack team […]
