Exclusive: UK unscripted vet Daniel Pearl is exiting Paramount UK for Lion TV.
The streamer’s VP of unscripted originals in the UK, whose past credits include Leaving Neverland and 72 Films-produced Premier League series Rise of the Billionaires, will become Creative Director at the All3Media-owned production outfit, replacing Tom Watt-Smith but with a wider remit.
Pearl has spent the past six years at Paramount UK, where he has overseen a wealth of factual shows first for Paramount UK network Channel 5 and latterly Paramount+ – leading the charge on the streamer’s UK unscripted push. Credits for Paramount+ include Rise of the Billionaires, serial killer series The Box and reality show Hot Yachts. For Channel 5, he oversaw big factual beasts such as Our Yorkshire Farm.
Pearl is a UK unscripted vet, having spent the six years before Paramount/Channel 5 in various current affairs roles with Channel 4, and the 15 years before that at the BBC.
The streamer’s VP of unscripted originals in the UK, whose past credits include Leaving Neverland and 72 Films-produced Premier League series Rise of the Billionaires, will become Creative Director at the All3Media-owned production outfit, replacing Tom Watt-Smith but with a wider remit.
Pearl has spent the past six years at Paramount UK, where he has overseen a wealth of factual shows first for Paramount UK network Channel 5 and latterly Paramount+ – leading the charge on the streamer’s UK unscripted push. Credits for Paramount+ include Rise of the Billionaires, serial killer series The Box and reality show Hot Yachts. For Channel 5, he oversaw big factual beasts such as Our Yorkshire Farm.
Pearl is a UK unscripted vet, having spent the six years before Paramount/Channel 5 in various current affairs roles with Channel 4, and the 15 years before that at the BBC.
- 9/11/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The BBC has greenlit a landmark documentary series spotlighting a once-in-a-generation Pompeii dig from Secrets Of The Saqqara Tomb producer Lion TV.
All3Media-owned Lion has gained access to a huge excavation taking place on the site of the former ancient city, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius around 2,000 years ago.
In the BBC’s Pompeii, present-day discoveries about the Roman world will be combined with a ‘ticking clock’ narrative told through the stories of real individuals from history who witnessed the ancient disaster.
“We don’t know what [the dig] will find but we do know the BBC wants new ways of hearing these stories,” said Richard Bradley, Chief Creative Officer of Lion.
Bradley said buyers are seeking docs with “cinematic and dramatic elements” that eschew a Western gaze, pointing to the positive reaction elicited by Lion’s 2020 feature film Secrets Of The Saqqara Tomb, which followed...
All3Media-owned Lion has gained access to a huge excavation taking place on the site of the former ancient city, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius around 2,000 years ago.
In the BBC’s Pompeii, present-day discoveries about the Roman world will be combined with a ‘ticking clock’ narrative told through the stories of real individuals from history who witnessed the ancient disaster.
“We don’t know what [the dig] will find but we do know the BBC wants new ways of hearing these stories,” said Richard Bradley, Chief Creative Officer of Lion.
Bradley said buyers are seeking docs with “cinematic and dramatic elements” that eschew a Western gaze, pointing to the positive reaction elicited by Lion’s 2020 feature film Secrets Of The Saqqara Tomb, which followed...
- 4/13/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Lime Pictures Head of Unscripted Sarah Tyekiff is exiting as the Only Way is Essex indie forges a new popular factual division with All3Media stablemates Lion Television and Wise Owl Films.
A Chief Creative Officer, Unscripted, will be hired to head up the division imminently.
After five years overseeing the likes of Towie, Geordie Shore, Netflix format Dance Monsters and ABC’s Who Do You Believe?, Tyekiff is leaving to launch her own production outfit. The former ITV Studios exec’s past credits include I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and Love Island.
Lime Creative Director, Unscripted, Rebecca Kenny-Smith, whose past credits include MasterChef and The Island, has been promoted to Director of Programing, Unscripted for the new division.
Lime Co-CEOs Kate Little and Claire Poyser wished Tyekiff “every success as she leaves Lime to fulfil a longheld ambition,” while Tyekiff said she has been on a...
A Chief Creative Officer, Unscripted, will be hired to head up the division imminently.
After five years overseeing the likes of Towie, Geordie Shore, Netflix format Dance Monsters and ABC’s Who Do You Believe?, Tyekiff is leaving to launch her own production outfit. The former ITV Studios exec’s past credits include I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and Love Island.
Lime Creative Director, Unscripted, Rebecca Kenny-Smith, whose past credits include MasterChef and The Island, has been promoted to Director of Programing, Unscripted for the new division.
Lime Co-CEOs Kate Little and Claire Poyser wished Tyekiff “every success as she leaves Lime to fulfil a longheld ambition,” while Tyekiff said she has been on a...
- 1/11/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dance Monsters and Sexy Beasts producer Lime Pictures and stablemate Lion TV have unveiled grand international unscripted ambitions and hired former Shine development boss Jonathan Meenagh to help with the push.
Lime, which also produces The Only Way Is Essex, Hollyoaks and Netflix kids drama Free Rein, is in the latter stages of production on Netflix format Dance Monsters and MDs Kate Little and Claire Poyser revealed to Deadline they are in the works on two further formats scheduled to air on US networks next year, as the indie takes advantage of the UK unscripted boom.
“The UK is the biggest exporter of formats globally and for a while now we’ve underperformed in terms of making the most of our brilliant format development teams,” said Poyser. “The real focus now is on the global audience.”
Airing next year, Dance Monsters, which comes from Sarah Tyekiff’s unscripted department,...
Lime, which also produces The Only Way Is Essex, Hollyoaks and Netflix kids drama Free Rein, is in the latter stages of production on Netflix format Dance Monsters and MDs Kate Little and Claire Poyser revealed to Deadline they are in the works on two further formats scheduled to air on US networks next year, as the indie takes advantage of the UK unscripted boom.
“The UK is the biggest exporter of formats globally and for a while now we’ve underperformed in terms of making the most of our brilliant format development teams,” said Poyser. “The real focus now is on the global audience.”
Airing next year, Dance Monsters, which comes from Sarah Tyekiff’s unscripted department,...
- 10/20/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s not all — or even remotely — about looks in Netflix’s new dating series “Sexy Beasts,” which will be narrated by “Catastrophe” star and comedian Rob Delaney, Variety can reveal.
Produced by All3Media-backed Lion TV, the streamer has signed on for two seasons of the reality show, which sees singles heading into blind dates transformed into various animals and mythical creatures through the use of Hollywood movie prosthetics. The show is based on Lion TV’s original British series for digital channel BBC Three in 2014. The format, sold by All3Media International, has traveled around the world, bolstered by demand for big, visual costume-led formats on the back of the “Masked Singer” success.
The first six-part season of episodes (6 x 30’) will be released globally on July 21, with a second season of six more episodes due to drop later this year.
Simon Welton, creator and executive producer for Lion TV,...
Produced by All3Media-backed Lion TV, the streamer has signed on for two seasons of the reality show, which sees singles heading into blind dates transformed into various animals and mythical creatures through the use of Hollywood movie prosthetics. The show is based on Lion TV’s original British series for digital channel BBC Three in 2014. The format, sold by All3Media International, has traveled around the world, bolstered by demand for big, visual costume-led formats on the back of the “Masked Singer” success.
The first six-part season of episodes (6 x 30’) will be released globally on July 21, with a second season of six more episodes due to drop later this year.
Simon Welton, creator and executive producer for Lion TV,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
All3Media, the international production company owned by Discovery and Liberty Global, is going to bring two of its indies closer together as part of a restructure.
The back-office functions of Cash Cab maker Lion TV and Lime Pictures, which produces Netflix teen drama Free Rein, will be combined, although the companies will remain distinct brands.
Practically, this will mean that Lion will move into Lime’s central London offices, while Lion’s joint managing directors Richard Bradley and Nick Catliff will report into Lime’s joint MDs Kate Little and Claire Poyser.
Catliff will take on the new title of chief content officer at Lion and Bradley becomes the newly anointed chief creative officer. As part of the changes, Lion’s third managing director, Shahana Meer, has decided to step down.
The restructure was announced to staff on Thursday afternoon. Such changes usually result in redundancies, but an All...
The back-office functions of Cash Cab maker Lion TV and Lime Pictures, which produces Netflix teen drama Free Rein, will be combined, although the companies will remain distinct brands.
Practically, this will mean that Lion will move into Lime’s central London offices, while Lion’s joint managing directors Richard Bradley and Nick Catliff will report into Lime’s joint MDs Kate Little and Claire Poyser.
Catliff will take on the new title of chief content officer at Lion and Bradley becomes the newly anointed chief creative officer. As part of the changes, Lion’s third managing director, Shahana Meer, has decided to step down.
The restructure was announced to staff on Thursday afternoon. Such changes usually result in redundancies, but an All...
- 9/12/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Production is under way on Altitude Film Entertainment and Citrus Films’ family movie Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans, based on the popular children’s book series by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.
Shooting now on location in the UK and Bulgaria, the film will cast the antics of the Roman Empire in a comedic light. It will follow Atti, a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. When one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, he is forced to join the army and is sent to miserable, cold, wet Britain where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
Dominic Brigstocke, director of the TV version of the series, will make his feature directorial debut. Script comes from Jessica Swale together with Giles Pilbrow and Caroline Norris.
Shooting now on location in the UK and Bulgaria, the film will cast the antics of the Roman Empire in a comedic light. It will follow Atti, a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. When one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, he is forced to join the army and is sent to miserable, cold, wet Britain where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
Dominic Brigstocke, director of the TV version of the series, will make his feature directorial debut. Script comes from Jessica Swale together with Giles Pilbrow and Caroline Norris.
- 10/3/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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