Exclusive: Yesterday, Scotland’s Stv confirmed one of the bigger deals in UK television so far this year when it announced the acquisition of indie production network Greenbird Media.
We’d already revealed news of an imminent deal and a stock market announcement confirmed commercial network Stv had paid an initial £21.4M ($25.1M) for the indie, which houses 14 production companies through an innovative incubation model aimed at nurturing emerging producers.
The deal saw previous majority owner Keshet exit and Greenbird management sell their shares to give Stv’s production arm, Stv Studios, 100% of the business. It’s understood there was a competitive tender for the London-based company, which is run by British television industry veterans Jamie Munro and Stuart Mullin.
We’ve now spoken to Stv CEO Simon Pitts, who outlined in more detail the strategic reasoning behind the Greenbird deal, noting how it supercharges a strategic objective to turn...
We’d already revealed news of an imminent deal and a stock market announcement confirmed commercial network Stv had paid an initial £21.4M ($25.1M) for the indie, which houses 14 production companies through an innovative incubation model aimed at nurturing emerging producers.
The deal saw previous majority owner Keshet exit and Greenbird management sell their shares to give Stv’s production arm, Stv Studios, 100% of the business. It’s understood there was a competitive tender for the London-based company, which is run by British television industry veterans Jamie Munro and Stuart Mullin.
We’ve now spoken to Stv CEO Simon Pitts, who outlined in more detail the strategic reasoning behind the Greenbird deal, noting how it supercharges a strategic objective to turn...
- 7/7/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Greenbird Flies To New Owner
Scotland’s Stv Studios has acquired the 15 companies operated by “Lego Masters” company Greenbird Media for £21.4 million ($27.3 million). Israel’s Keshet International acquired 60% of Greenbird five years ago. Stv Studios has now acquired 100% of Greenbird, including Keshet’s stake.
Greenbird founders, Jamie Munro and Stuart Mullin, will join the Stv Studios board in the roles of chief commercial officer and finance and integration director respectively, working alongside COO, Paul Sheehan, and under the leadership of MD, David Mortimer.
The deal boosts the number of labels within Stv Studios from nine to 24. As a result of the acquisition, Stv Studios now has expanded bases in Glasgow and London, as well as offices in Cardiff, Belfast, Brighton and Manchester.
Hit shows made by the producers in Greenbird’s cluster include: “Lego Masters” (Tuesday’s Child for Channel 4/Fox) and “The Hit List” (Tuesday’s Child for BBC One...
Scotland’s Stv Studios has acquired the 15 companies operated by “Lego Masters” company Greenbird Media for £21.4 million ($27.3 million). Israel’s Keshet International acquired 60% of Greenbird five years ago. Stv Studios has now acquired 100% of Greenbird, including Keshet’s stake.
Greenbird founders, Jamie Munro and Stuart Mullin, will join the Stv Studios board in the roles of chief commercial officer and finance and integration director respectively, working alongside COO, Paul Sheehan, and under the leadership of MD, David Mortimer.
The deal boosts the number of labels within Stv Studios from nine to 24. As a result of the acquisition, Stv Studios now has expanded bases in Glasgow and London, as well as offices in Cardiff, Belfast, Brighton and Manchester.
Hit shows made by the producers in Greenbird’s cluster include: “Lego Masters” (Tuesday’s Child for Channel 4/Fox) and “The Hit List” (Tuesday’s Child for BBC One...
- 7/6/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran and Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Stv has confirmed the acquisition of Lego Masters firm Greenbird Media, following Deadline’s exclusive report yesterday in the UK.
The Scottish network’s production arm, Stv Studios, has paid an initial £21.4M ($27.2M) for the company, whose assets include majority stakes in Lego Masters maker Tuesday’s Child Television and Crackit Productions. Israel’s Keshet International was previously the majority owner, with a 60% stake.
Yesterday, we told you Stv was nearing a deal for Greenbird, whose sale has been in the works since last year.
The deal boosts the number of labels within Stv Studios from nine to 24, as it aims to become the UK’s top producer from outside of London — a sector known within the country’s TV sector as the nations and regions. Stv will get new bases in Glasgow and London, and offices in Cardiff, Belfast, Brighton and Manchester.
Greenbird founders Jamie Munro and Stuart...
The Scottish network’s production arm, Stv Studios, has paid an initial £21.4M ($27.2M) for the company, whose assets include majority stakes in Lego Masters maker Tuesday’s Child Television and Crackit Productions. Israel’s Keshet International was previously the majority owner, with a 60% stake.
Yesterday, we told you Stv was nearing a deal for Greenbird, whose sale has been in the works since last year.
The deal boosts the number of labels within Stv Studios from nine to 24, as it aims to become the UK’s top producer from outside of London — a sector known within the country’s TV sector as the nations and regions. Stv will get new bases in Glasgow and London, and offices in Cardiff, Belfast, Brighton and Manchester.
Greenbird founders Jamie Munro and Stuart...
- 7/6/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Scotland’s Stv is close to acquiring on-the-block Lego Masters production group Greenbird Media from Keshet International (Ki), Deadline understands.
The deal could be unveiled imminently, it is thought, and may amount to a figure in the tens of millions of pounds. Having been acquired from BBC Studios (then BBC Worldwide) in 2018, Greenbird, which is run by Jamie Munro and Stuart Mullin, first began exploring its options last year, though sources this week have said owner Keshet International did not officially put in on the block.
Headquartered in Scotland, Stv is a listed broadcasting and production company that turned over £138M last year. Its production arm, Stv Studios, is making the likes of Apple TV+ drama Criminal Record and was behind Channel 4’s Screw. MD David Mortimer recently told Broadcast he wants Stv Studios to be the “biggest nations and regions indie.”
When the deal closes, it would...
The deal could be unveiled imminently, it is thought, and may amount to a figure in the tens of millions of pounds. Having been acquired from BBC Studios (then BBC Worldwide) in 2018, Greenbird, which is run by Jamie Munro and Stuart Mullin, first began exploring its options last year, though sources this week have said owner Keshet International did not officially put in on the block.
Headquartered in Scotland, Stv is a listed broadcasting and production company that turned over £138M last year. Its production arm, Stv Studios, is making the likes of Apple TV+ drama Criminal Record and was behind Channel 4’s Screw. MD David Mortimer recently told Broadcast he wants Stv Studios to be the “biggest nations and regions indie.”
When the deal closes, it would...
- 7/5/2023
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Keshet UK scripted boss Howard Burch has departed, replaced by Keshet International-owned Greenbird CEO Jamie Munro in an expanded role.
Experienced former Kudos exec Burch left several months ago and Munro had been filling in temporarily, before recently becoming the permanent Keshet UK MD. He is tasked with building up the Israeli powerhouse’s scripted UK offering, which includes the likes of Apple TV+’s Suspicion and BBC One dramas The A-Word and Ralph and Katie, the latter two of which are co-produced. Munro keeps his Greenbird responsibilities.
Munro and fellow indie incubator Greenbird co-founder Stuart Mullin took over Keshet International’s UK scripted and non-scripted offering in 2018 but Munro’s new role is more hands-on. The recently-rebranded Interstellar non-scripted arm will continue to be run by David Williams, having spun off from the scripted arm last year. Greenbird has stakes in indies such as Lego Masters producer Tuesday’s Child,...
Experienced former Kudos exec Burch left several months ago and Munro had been filling in temporarily, before recently becoming the permanent Keshet UK MD. He is tasked with building up the Israeli powerhouse’s scripted UK offering, which includes the likes of Apple TV+’s Suspicion and BBC One dramas The A-Word and Ralph and Katie, the latter two of which are co-produced. Munro keeps his Greenbird responsibilities.
Munro and fellow indie incubator Greenbird co-founder Stuart Mullin took over Keshet International’s UK scripted and non-scripted offering in 2018 but Munro’s new role is more hands-on. The recently-rebranded Interstellar non-scripted arm will continue to be run by David Williams, having spun off from the scripted arm last year. Greenbird has stakes in indies such as Lego Masters producer Tuesday’s Child,...
- 10/26/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
London, March 12 2012: Shine Group today announced a restructure of its UK senior management that sees Princess Productions and Kudos Chief Executive’s Henrietta Conrad and Jane Featherstone assuming joint responsibility for the UK as Joint Chairmen. In addition to their current roles as Chief Executives of Kudos and Princess Productions, UK based company Dragonfly will report to Featherstone who will continue to oversee comedy and drama labels Brown Eyed Boy and Lovely Day. Shine TV will report to Conrad who also becomes its Chief Executive. The restructure sees Joint Managing Directors of Shine TV, Jamie Munro and Karen Smith choosing to step down from their positions with neither being replaced. The move to bring the six Shine Group UK companies under the joint leadership of Featherstone and Conrad is designed to provide greater opportunity for closer collaboration between the UK businesses and to provide greater clarity of focus for each.
- 3/12/2012
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
London -- Shine chairman and CEO Elisabeth Murdoch is stepping back from the day-to-day running of Shine Prods. to focus on developing opportunities across the Shine portfolio of companies.
Effective Oct. 6, Jamie Munro, formerly commercial director and senior vp international productions at Tiger Aspect, will run the commercial side of the business, reporting to Shine Group president Alex Mahon.
Shine programs director Karen Smith, meanwhile, has been promoted to run creative operations and will report to Murdoch.
The move will free up Murdoch and Mahon "to devote time evenly across the Shine Group of companies," which include Reveille, Kudos, Princess Prods. and distribution arm Shine Reveille International, the company said Thursday.
Under the new structure, director of production Joe McLusky and John Gilbert, Shine TV director of legal and business affairs, who reported to Mahon, now will report to Munro.
Munro, a seasoned factual and reality executive who has worked on both sides of the Atlantic, will be charged with growing and evolving Shine's TV portfolio.
Before joining Tiger Aspect in 2005, Munro spent 12 years at the BBC and BBC Worldwide, contributing to such international commercial successes as "Life of Mammals," "What Not to Wear" and "Strictly Come Dancing," on which he first worked with Smith, then an executive producer at the BBC.
Munro also was part of the team that set up the BBC's New York production office and successfully sold and launched "Dancing With the Stars" to ABC. At Tiger Aspect, he exploited the commercial potential of such hits as "Robin Hood," "The Catherine Tate Show" and "The Vicar of Dibley" and launched international formats like "Make Me a Supermodel."
Since being launched by Murdoch seven years ago, Shine has grown through acquisitions from a relatively modest U.K. production house to an international player on both sides of the Atlantic. Shine recently announced plans for a move into feature films via last month's launch of movie division Shine Pictures in partnership with New Regency.
The new offshoot, designed to put Shine on a bigger stage, will be overseen by Murdoch and run on a day-to-day basis by Kudos execs Stephen Garrett and Paul Webster -- the team behind such hits as "Spooks" and "Life on Mars."...
Effective Oct. 6, Jamie Munro, formerly commercial director and senior vp international productions at Tiger Aspect, will run the commercial side of the business, reporting to Shine Group president Alex Mahon.
Shine programs director Karen Smith, meanwhile, has been promoted to run creative operations and will report to Murdoch.
The move will free up Murdoch and Mahon "to devote time evenly across the Shine Group of companies," which include Reveille, Kudos, Princess Prods. and distribution arm Shine Reveille International, the company said Thursday.
Under the new structure, director of production Joe McLusky and John Gilbert, Shine TV director of legal and business affairs, who reported to Mahon, now will report to Munro.
Munro, a seasoned factual and reality executive who has worked on both sides of the Atlantic, will be charged with growing and evolving Shine's TV portfolio.
Before joining Tiger Aspect in 2005, Munro spent 12 years at the BBC and BBC Worldwide, contributing to such international commercial successes as "Life of Mammals," "What Not to Wear" and "Strictly Come Dancing," on which he first worked with Smith, then an executive producer at the BBC.
Munro also was part of the team that set up the BBC's New York production office and successfully sold and launched "Dancing With the Stars" to ABC. At Tiger Aspect, he exploited the commercial potential of such hits as "Robin Hood," "The Catherine Tate Show" and "The Vicar of Dibley" and launched international formats like "Make Me a Supermodel."
Since being launched by Murdoch seven years ago, Shine has grown through acquisitions from a relatively modest U.K. production house to an international player on both sides of the Atlantic. Shine recently announced plans for a move into feature films via last month's launch of movie division Shine Pictures in partnership with New Regency.
The new offshoot, designed to put Shine on a bigger stage, will be overseen by Murdoch and run on a day-to-day basis by Kudos execs Stephen Garrett and Paul Webster -- the team behind such hits as "Spooks" and "Life on Mars."...
- 8/7/2008
- by By Mimi Turner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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