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ITV bosses have talked up the Plimsoll Productions and Ben Stephenson deals as “ticking the box on genre and geography” and detailed how soon-to-launch streamer ITVX will attract bigger audiences. Over the past weeks, ITV Studios has closed huge deals to acquire a majority stake in Hostile Planet and…

The UK’s ITV has agreed to acquire a majority interest of 79.5% in Hostile Planet and Tiny World producer Plimsoll Productions for approximately £103.5M ($126M), giving the company an enterprise value of £131M ($159.7M). The stake is being acquired from private equity group LDC, which made a multi-million dollar minori…

EXCLUSIVE: Hostile Planet and Tiny World producer Plimsoll Productions is taking its Channel 4 carpentry format Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker to the U.S. as Channel 4 issues a rare double season order. Discovery+ holds streaming rights in North America for the finished tape version of the UK show and Plimsoll…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a clip of Netflix’s Animal from Plimsoll Productions, which launches Wednesday. Narrated by big-hitters Bryan Cranston, Rashida Jones, Rebel Wilson and Pedro Pascal, the series utilizes the latest filming tech such as gimbals and drones to follow eight families of the natural world including big…

EXCLUSIVE: Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions has posted a 65% increase in sales to almost $70M (£50M) over the past year, defying the impact of the pandemic in the natural history space. Deadline understands the firm’s EBITDA has also nearly doubled to around the $14M (£10M) for the year to 31 August…

Discovery+ has picked up North American streaming rights for Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions’ Handmade: Good With Wood format. The deal was struck by Andrea Jackson’s distributor Magnify Media, which became fully owned by Plimsoll last year. Good With Wood launches on UK network Channel 4 on Thursday as Ha…

EXCLUSIVE: Plimsoll Productions, the company behind series such as Apple's Tiny World and Fox's Malika the Lion Queen, has promoted its U.S. chief Saul Goldberg. Goldberg joined the company, which also made ABC's The Women of 9/11, in 2019 to lead its U.S. operation and has now been promoted to SVP, Production and…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ and Nat Geo have greenlit their latest UK-produced natural history series in the shape of Supernatural Planet, which hails from Hostile Planet and Yellowstone Live outfit Plimsoll Productions. Deadline understands that the six-part series has been in production for some time and will use…

Fox is roaming into natural history with a two-hour special narrated by 9-1-1 star Angela Bassett. The network has ordered Malika the Lion Queen, a documentary about the lionesses of a pride in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The special, which is produced by British production company Plimsoll Productions, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Itkin, former WME partner and a doyen of the international formats and unscripted world, has joined the board of Plimsoll Productions. Itkin, who is based in LA and New York, will work closely with CEO Grant Mansfield and VP, Production and Development Saul Goldberg as the Hostile Planet and…

Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions has taken full control of international distribution company Magnify Media. The company, which was set up by former RDF USA chief Grant Mansfield, took a minority stake in Magnify, which was established by Andrea Jackson, in 2016. Jackson set up the company in September…

EXCLUSIVE: Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions is moving into scripted. The natural history producer has hired Lisa Gilchrist, producer of Dominic West-fronted crime thriller Appropriate Adult, as Head of Drama. This comes six months after the company, which also produces series such as Yellowstone Live and…