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Boat Rocker Buys Stake In Dakota Johnson’s TeaTime, Vice-Chair Katie O’Connell Marsh Segues To Overall Deal, Becomes TeaTime Partner

Boat Rocker has acquired a minority equity stake in TeaTime Pictures, founded by Dakota Johnson and former Netflix executive Ro Donnelly, which has had a first-look deal with the Canadian TV studio since 2019. Under the agreement, Boat Rocker will extend its current first-look deal with TeaTime to develop and produce…

‘Narcos’ Producers Gaumont TV File New Attempt To Squash Ex-CEO’s Profits Seeking Suit

Like the ravenous appetites of the title character of Hannibal, Gaumont Television USA intends to make a meal of their former CEO with an amended countersuit filed just now. Since former Gaumont International Television boss Katie O'Connell Marsh took her old employers to court in early 2018 over potentially millions…

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TV Producers On Changing Storytelling Techniques For the Binging Era & Unusual Places Series Can Come From – INTV

While serialized dramas have been around for awhile, the relatively recent phenomenon of binging on digital platforms has shaken up the format. During a Magical Science of Storytelling panel at INTV, Katie O'Connell Marsh, CEO Platform ONE Media, recalled how, while she ran Gaumont International Television, the…

Former Gaumont Exec Sues Over “Shifty Calculations” Of Gross Receipts From ‘Narcos’ & Other Series

The first CEO of Gaumont International Television is suing the company — now called Gaumont Television USA — claiming that it deprived her of “millions of dollars in bargained-for contingent compensation” from TV series she developed. Katie O’Connell Marsh already was a veteran television executive when was tapped as…

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TPG Growth & Liberty Global Launch Indie TV Studio Run By Katie O’Connell Marsh, Will Absorb Slingshot

TPG Growth, whose parent TPG owns a majority stake in CAA, and John Malone’s Liberty Global have teamed to launch a global television production and distribution studio dubbed Platform One Media. The studio will be majority owned by Evolution Media, TPG Growth’s investment partnership with CAA and Participant Media…

DreamWorks Animation Moves Into Live Action, Taps Katie O’Connell Marsh To Head Global TV Business

DreamWorks Animation has tapped Katie O'Connell Marsh to run its live-action TV unit. As the company’s head of Global Live-Action Television, she will be charged with expanding the company’s TV business into live-action fare. Marsh will be based at the DWA’s Glendale headquarters and begin with the company in the New…