Montreal-based formats specialist Media Ranch is expanding its reach in the U.K. and English Canada with the addition of two consultants.
Rod Rodrigo, who has held executive positions at Mar Vista, Gaumont, Global Agency and ICM, before starting Serendipity Media in 2013, has a brief to ramp up Media Ranch’s U.K. business. He will report to Media Ranch Svp Tanja van der Goes.
Owen Kelly, who launched his own company Antigravity Entertainment this year, is to oversee English Canada’s business development. Kelly has previously worked in film and TV business affairs and financing in Canada.
The appointments come two months after the Canadian producer and distributor announced a push into the U.S. after signing a deal with ICM Partners. Media Ranch recently signed 10 global deals for “Watch!,” a new entertainment game show format, which is in production in Germany.
Meanwhile, Media Ranch has optioned its format...
Rod Rodrigo, who has held executive positions at Mar Vista, Gaumont, Global Agency and ICM, before starting Serendipity Media in 2013, has a brief to ramp up Media Ranch’s U.K. business. He will report to Media Ranch Svp Tanja van der Goes.
Owen Kelly, who launched his own company Antigravity Entertainment this year, is to oversee English Canada’s business development. Kelly has previously worked in film and TV business affairs and financing in Canada.
The appointments come two months after the Canadian producer and distributor announced a push into the U.S. after signing a deal with ICM Partners. Media Ranch recently signed 10 global deals for “Watch!,” a new entertainment game show format, which is in production in Germany.
Meanwhile, Media Ranch has optioned its format...
- 5/28/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Canadian producer and distributor Media Ranch is plotting an expanded push into the U.S. after signing with ICM Partners.
The company, which recently struck a deal for its variety show format Watch! to Keeping Up With The Kardashians producer Bunim Murray Productions, has signed with the Hollywood talent agency for U.S. representation.
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Media Ranch, which is run by Sophie Ferron, was set up in 2008 and is based in Montreal.
It has high hopes for Watch!, which was created by Dan Munday and John Kirhoffer, and sees two teams of four watching an elaborate variety show. The team with the best memory of what they’ve seen is then best positioned to take home the most money.
The company, which recently struck a deal for its variety show format Watch! to Keeping Up With The Kardashians producer Bunim Murray Productions, has signed with the Hollywood talent agency for U.S. representation.
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Media Ranch, which is run by Sophie Ferron, was set up in 2008 and is based in Montreal.
It has high hopes for Watch!, which was created by Dan Munday and John Kirhoffer, and sees two teams of four watching an elaborate variety show. The team with the best memory of what they’ve seen is then best positioned to take home the most money.
- 3/30/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
It takes a lot to really impress me when it comes to television. It’s not that hard to get me to like a show, or I’d just be in the wrong business, but to truly get me to sit up and take notice (and want to binge something), you’ve got to be doing something very different, and you’ve got to be doing it well.
CBC‘s Still Standing is such an effort, and if there’s a cooler show on television, anywhere, I’d like someone to try to convince me of the fact.
If you only know Jonny Harris as Constable Crabtree on Murdoch Mysteries, you’re really missing out, because he’s a hell of a comedian, and he’s been all over the comedy circuit in Canada (including the Halifax and Winnipeg Comedy Festivals). Really, if you’re in Canada, I’m probably not talking to you.
CBC‘s Still Standing is such an effort, and if there’s a cooler show on television, anywhere, I’d like someone to try to convince me of the fact.
If you only know Jonny Harris as Constable Crabtree on Murdoch Mysteries, you’re really missing out, because he’s a hell of a comedian, and he’s been all over the comedy circuit in Canada (including the Halifax and Winnipeg Comedy Festivals). Really, if you’re in Canada, I’m probably not talking to you.
- 8/29/2015
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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