LONDON – Passion Distribution has acquired a raft of talent-led documentary and factual entertainment programming featuring Emma Willis, Stacey Dooley, Dr Christian Jessen and Anne Robinson. Passion Distribution has secured the rights to Emma Willis: Delivering Babies, Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over and Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street. All three series have been produced by Firecracker Films for UKTV's premium entertainment channel, W. Passion Distribution has also acquired … [Read more...] about Passion Distribution acquires talent-led documentary and factual entertainment programming
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Passion Distribution announces new head of acquisitions
LONDON – Passion Distribution is delighted to announce the appointment of Sean Wheatley as Head of Acquisitions. Reporting to Passion Distribution’s CEO, Emmanuelle Namiech, Sean Wheatley will spearhead the company’s content acquisition activity, working closely with Passion’s production partners - both with independent producers and the Tinopolis group companies. As part of his remit, Wheatley will be responsible for identifying and acquiring high-quality content and expand … [Read more...] about Passion Distribution announces new head of acquisitions
Passion appoints Head of Acquisitions
London- Passion Distribution has appointed Jimmy Humphrey in the newly created role of Head of Acquisitions with effect from August 1st 2016. Humphrey will help devise and implement Passion Distribution’s content strategy, overseeing the development, acquisitions and the distribution roll out of Passion Distribution programming, reporting to Passion Distribution’s CEO Emmanuelle Namiech. … [Read more...] about Passion appoints Head of Acquisitions
Passion appoints new CEO
Passion Distribution announced the appointment of Emmanuelle Namiech as its new CEO. Prior to this, Namiech was Managing Director of Banijay International where she helped to transform the company’s distribution strategy and broaden its activity from focusing on formats to a wider portfolio of engaging factual, factual entertainment and scripted content from an expanded range of producers and broadcasters. Namiech will take over from founder and CEO, Sally Miles to lead the distribution … [Read more...] about Passion appoints new CEO
Latest Deals
Content Television drama deals London– Content Television has shipped a number of drama titles to broadcasters across Asia. Fox International Channels Asia Pacific has acquired Dead Rising: Watchtower, GMA Network has acquired Halo 4:Forward Unto Dawn and The Ark, Solar Entertainment picked up a package of drama titles headlined by Cyberbully, and CCTV has picked up a raft of TV movies including He Who Dares: Downing Street Siege, Earthbound, Pete’s Christmas and Driving Lessons. … [Read more...] about Latest Deals
Passion shows continued success in Southeast Asia
London-based Passion Distribution announced on August 7 continued success in Southeast Asia, licensing over 420 hours of content into the region in the last 6 months. Most prominently, Passion has seen a rise in content acquisition in the Philippines; the distributor has seen a 350% growth in the region in 2014. Most recently in the Philippines, ABS CBN finalised terms for a large package deal, totalling over 187 hours of content. Package highlights include the cutting-edge food competition … [Read more...] about Passion shows continued success in Southeast Asia
