Twofour Group


Objective chiefs launch ITV Studios prodco

Objective Productions foursome Andrew O’Connor, Paul Sandler, Matt Crook and Adam Adler are leaving the All3Media-owned prodco to launch an entertainment company with ITV Studios. They are creating Cats on the Roof Media, which will be an umbrella brand comprising three subsidiary prodcos that sits within the production wing of UK broadcaster ITV. Objective co-founder […]

ITV ‘set to buy Twofour’

UK broadcaster ITV is set to acquire Plymouth-based production and distribution group Twofour, a Media Guardian report claims. The deal’s value is not known, but could see Educating Essex producer Twofour fetch around £70 million (US$107.5 million), according the paper’s estimates. Twofour merged with Boom Pictures in October 2013, though the partnership has not been […]

Sky hires non-scripted trio

UK-based satcaster Sky has hired a trio of commissioners to work across its non-scripted programming arm. Shirley Jones is one hire at the non-scripted division run by Celia Taylor (pictured), with Bill Hobbins joining from All3Media-owned Lion Television and Oxford Film & Television’s head of special projects James Quinn. Sky has been hunting new execs […]

Denmark’s TV2 plays Happy Families

Danish broadcaster TV2 has commissioned a local version of Happy Families, a format from Twofour Group that runs on ITV in the UK. The Danish version will run to seven episodes and launch on March 23 under the title Family Denmark – A Close-Up. Danish prodcos Koncern is producing. The fixed-rig format, which Twofour Rights […]

ITV orders deals and discounting series

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has ordered Bargain Fever Britain, a two-part factual series looking behind the scenes at four big discount-based businesses. The 2x60mins show will look at the characters and business of wholesale giant Costco, car supermarket Motorpoint, footwear chain Shoe Zone and food discounter Approved Food. The series will also feature customers and […]

Remarkable’s Walshe joins Twofour

Remarkable Television’s factual entertainment producer Kitty Walshe has joined rival UK prodco Twofour as head of features and daytime. She will be charged with overseeing The Jump producer Twofour’s pre-watershed (9pm) slate, effective immediately. The role is a new one, a Twofour spokeswomen confirmed this morning. At Endemol Shine Group-owned Remarkable, she worked on shows […]

OSF poaches Warner Bros. prodco exec

Twofour Group-owned prodco Oxford Scientific Films has poached a creative executive from Watershed TV, which is part of Warner Bros. Television Productions UK. Emma Morgan comes across as OSF’s head of popular factual, having previously been creative director at Stacey Dooley – No Place for a Girl prodco Watershed. She was director of development and […]

Jane Street hires ex-Boundless exec Davies

US producer Jane Street Entertainment has hired UK-based executive Gemma Davies to become its VP of development. Davies previously worked at FremantleMedia-owned UK prodco Boundless and at Twofour Broadcast (now Twofour Group). She has worked on unscripted shows such as UKTV’s Choccywoccydoodah and ITV’s Magaluf Weekender. Davies will now run Jane Street’s development unit and […]

Twofour launches new content group

UK-based Twofour Group has merged its digital arm with its Arabian production hub and events company Rocket Science to create a new content group. The creation of One Two Four comes months after Twofour hived Twofour Digital off as a standalone entity, and nearly a year after Twofour merged with Wales-based Boom Pictures. One Two […]

Twofour Group restructures, launches Welsh arm

Twofour Group is continuing to restructure its operations, announcing several staff changes and a new Welsh division. Group creative director Andrew MacKenzie (pictured) has been named chief creative officer at the UK production and distribution outfit, with David Clews in turn promoted to replace him. Businessman Richard Thompson has been named as the company’s new […]