Zig Zag Productions


Two more broadcasters wanna marry Prince Harry

ITV in the UK and M-Net in South Africa have both acquired reality series I Wanna Marry ‘Harry’. Shine International is distributing the series, which was produced by Zig Zag Productions’ and Ryan Seacrest Productions for US network Fox. The format has 12 women competing for their chance to marry Prince Harry, while living at […]

YouTube gets original

With YouTube channels and their content providers toasted as the talk of MIPTV last week, multichannel operators, TV producers and analysts tell Jesse Whittock why original content is the key to monetising the emerging YouTube ecosystem. Question: What do a hyperactive Swedish video gamer, a geeky American comic duo and  DJ Avicii have in common? […]

A&E finds Herberts

A&E Network has ordered an unscripted series about five advertising agency brothers. The Herbert Brothers (WT) will follow the five brothers from Batesville, Indiana, who launched an advertising empire after creating a top-rating Super Bowl commercial. Fresh from selling I Want to Marry Harry to Fox, UK indie Zig Zag Productions is attached to produce, […]

Viewpoint: Rio’s grand

Zig Zag Productions’ CEO Danny Fenton reports back from this month’s Rio Content Market in Brazil. Despite feeling like a ‘new kid on the block’ in this most bustling of emerging markets, the indie boss extols the virtues of the new UK-Brazil coproduction treaty and Rio as a possible new second home. I was very […]

UK broadcaster ‘sniffing Japanese gameshow’

UK indie Zig Zag Productions has acquired local rights to a Japanese gameshow and is in “negotiations with a UK broadcaster” to bring the show to British screens. Zig Zag is among four companies to pick up Ultimate Brain from Eccho Rights, the sister sales firm to Spark Network, of which the UK producer is […]

Channel 5 orders Too Fat to Fly as part of Supersize season

UK free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5 has ordered a one-off doc, Too Fat to Fly. The 1x60mins show will be made by UK indie Zig Zag Productions and chart the holiday horror stories experienced by obese holidaymakers, including people who have had to be cut out of theme park rides and winched out of waterslides while […]

Discovery acquires sex therapy doc

Discovery Fit and Health in the US is among the buyers of Real 40 Year Old Virgins, a documentary about a pair of adults taking sex therapy classes as they prepare to lose their virginity. Australia’s ABC, RTL2 in Germany, Norway’s TV Norge, TV2 in Denmark, SBS in the Netherlands, VMMa in Belgium and Discovery’s […]

Denmark’s Mastiff buys Japanese gameshow format

Danish producer Mastiff has acquired rights to Japanese gameshow Exit from vendor Eccho Rights. The entertainment format comes from Japanese producer Kenichiro Akiyama and has broadcast in the territory on Nippon Television for three seasons. The format sees teams of contestants take on mental and physical challenges against the clock to escape from locked rooms. […]

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