UK production outfit Nine Lives Media is opening an office in Birmingham and has hired former Transparent TV chief Jazz Gowans as its co-creative director. Gowans will head up the new office working alongside CEO Cat Lewis and will also develop her programme ideas through the Nine Lives banner. She was CEO of Transparent, which became […]
Channel 5 has commissioned Jazz Gowans’ Transparent TV for a two-part series exploring the problems plaguing the UK’s Conservative Party. Portillo: The Trouble With The Tory Party features Michael Portillo — a former Secretary of State for Defence and leadership candidate — meeting the leaders, power brokers and party insiders who have attempted to navigate the UK […]
TCB Media Rights has signed a two-year first-look deal with Argonon-owned indie Transparent TV. Under the deal, TCB will represent Transparent’s entire back catalogue, bringing a further 70 hours to its factual slate. Highlights include 33 hours of Botched Up Bodies and season two of Michael Portillo’s Hidden History of Britain (pictured). TCB has also closed […]
