We’re excited to be part of ITV Studios’ expanding global force in content and delighted that, from today, this powerful new partnership is officially active.” There is a quite special strategic and cultural fit that will enable us to achieve our, now shared, creative and commercial ambitions for Plimsoll. Mansfield said: “The significant opportunities in the international premium unscripted market make this the perfect time for Plimsoll to join ITV Studios. ITV said it would initially focus on continuing the momentum of the respective operations as their teams get to know each other and assess how best they work together. Meanwhile, Plimsoll’s distribution arm Magnify Media will work alongside ITV Studios. They will work alongside ITV Studios Managing Director Julian Bellamy, UK Director of Unscripted Angela Jain and their team. Plimsoll’s team includes Chief Creative Officer Martha Holmes Creative Director Tom Hugh-Jones, Head of Factual Entertainment Karen Plumb and former ITV factual chief Richard Klein. Before launching Plimsoll, Mansfield was head of production company Zodiak in the U.S., Managing Director of RDF and the Commissioner of Factual for ITV.įollowing the transaction Mansfield, together with his senior management and creatives, will continue to manage the business and play a key role in program development. While it has strong scripted and unscripted production companies across the globe, natural history was previously considered a gap in its portfolio. The acquisition is a major move for ITV and its strategy of expanding its international content business, further diversifying ITV Studios’ production base and will enable ITV to take advantage of the strong demand for content across natural history and factual genres. Plimsoll is also expanding across the premium unscripted space with growing documentary and factual entertainment departments producing for major networks and platforms including BBC, ABC, Channel 4, CNN, History and Hulu. ITV Studios is distributing A Year On Planet Earth, a 6×60 series that draws on spellbinding and dramatic stories from all corners of the world. The BAFTA, Emmy and Oscar-winning firm has produced hundreds of hours of content, which has traveled to nearly 200 countries.Īmong its credits are Tiny World and Giant World for AppleTV+ Hostile Planet and Supernatural Planet for Disney Night On Earth and Animal for Netflix and the upcoming series A Year On Planet Earth for new parent ITV, Tencent in China, Fox Nation in the U.S. Plimsoll, founded by Grant Mansfield - a former ITV factual boss - in Bristol in 2013, is the world’s largest independent producer of natural history programs and focuses on making premium factual.
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