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‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ prodco The Garden rejigs senior team

Squid Game: The Challenge producer The Garden has restructured its team with new roles for three execs. Lucie Duxbury becomes head of programmes at the ITV Studios-owned comapny, while Spencer Kelly has been named director of factual and 24 Hours in Police Custody series director Jermaine Blake has been brought onto staff as an executive […]

Netflix extends gameshow ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ into second season

Netflix has ordered a second season of high-profile gameshow, Squid Game: The Challenge. The show, whose first season is set to end this month, features 456 characters playing the games from the series in a bid to win a top prize of $4.56m. It was first unveiled last year and is produced by All3media’s Studio […]

BBC hires exec from ITVS’s The Garden as factual commissioner

The BBC has hired Anna Dickeson from ITV Studios-owned UK producer The Garden as a commissioning editor for documentaries. Dickeson was most recently creative lead for The Garden’s Yorkshire-based division, which she joined in 2018. She has previously worked on shows such as 24 Hours In A&E, The Secret Life Of The Zoo, Educating The […]

UK’s DSP hires The Garden alum Ninder Billing as creative director

UK-based factual prodco DSP (Darlow Smithson Productions) has hired Ninder Billing as creative director. Billing joins from The Garden, where she served as head of specialist factual. In her new role at DSP, which is part of Banijay UK, she will report to MD Donna Clark and work to further develop the company’s documentary and […]

ITVS-owned The Garden rejigs senior team as co-founder Magnus Temple steps down

24 Hours In A&E producer The Garden has appointed two new CEO’s after the company’s co-founder and current chief exec Magnus Temple revealed he would be stepping down. Temple, who has been in charge at the ITV Studios-owned prodco for 11 years, is being replaced by Nicola Hill and John Hay, who become joint CEOs.   […]

ITVS-owned The Garden appoints Channel 4 commissioning editor

ITV Studios-owned UK producer The Garden has appointed Channel 4 commissioning editor Nicola Brown as its director of programmes. Brown, who previously worked at The Garden almost a decade ago, takes up her new role in March and will help to expand the company’s slate, which includes Channel 4 shows 24 Hours In A&E and […]

For My Next Trick: The Garden’s Ninder Billing

Each day this week, in the lead-up to International Women’s Day on Friday (8 March), TBI presents its ‘For My Next Trick’ series, which finds a group of industry-leading women across production, commissioning and distribution reflecting on the advice that has shaped their career; innovation in their respective fields; diversity in TV; and the legacy […]

Operation Live, The Desert highlight ITV Studios’ spring formats slate

ITV Studios has rolled out a slate of new formats including The Garden’s Operation Live, Talpa survival show The Desert and Twofour’s undercover series Secret Teacher. The producer-distributor kicked off UK Screenings week today (15 February) with its annual Formats Festival, which welcomed more than 200 international buyers. ITV Studios-backed producers presenting at the showcase […]

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