UK Distributors generated revenues of £1.72bn in the year to 31st March 2018 according to the Broadcast Distribution Survey. DRIVE were newcomers and entered at number 20 among the top 25 companies, ahead of other newbies Parade and Scorpion TV. A table of the most profitable...
UK-based production-funding and distribution agency Drive has been appointed by True Royal TV, the royalty-themed SVOD platform, to distribute a portfolio of royal-focused programming. The slate includes three new royal family documentaries and an eight-part royal talk show produced by British indie Spun Gold TV. The titles...
UK-based production funding and distribution agency Drive will launch three new documentaries about the UK’s royal family and an eight-part talkshow at MipTV next week. Commissioned by TrueRoyalty TV, the royalty-themed SVOD platform launched last year in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the...
New show Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War was very well received when it premiered at BBC4 last week. PICK OF THE WEEK ‘Engaging and clever’ The Observer ‘Hughes expertly traces Mars origins’ The Times ‘Hughes is a warm and authoritative presenter, always utterly engaged and at home amongst fallen columns...
Drive has acquired a documentary series about the wife of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar for global distribution. Tata – Escobar’s Widow features intimate interviews with Victoria Eugenia Henao (nicknamed ‘Tata’ by Escobar) as she breaks her silence of 25 years and reveals the truth about...
BBC Earth and Discovery Italy are among the international broadcasters to have picked up a factual series on extreme weather conditions from UK-based funding and distribution outfit Drive. The World’s Deadliest Weather is produced by UK indie Back2Back and the third 13×60’ season has also been...
Fifty-six years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains one of Hollywood’s most intriguing and glamorous figures. Smithsonian Channel’s new documentary Marilyn Monroe for Sale, airing Dec. 23, goes inside the icon’s private world and personal possessions, looking back on Julien’s 2016 auction of her most personal...
Realscreen’s Trailblazers: TCB Media Rights In an industry that seems to be changing on a daily basis, it’s hard to keep track of those changes, and the creative and strategic minds behind them. But we managed to catch up with several such individuals and companies for...
This PBS documentary recounts the story of the ill-fated cruiser and a recent expedition that uncovered the wreckage. (extract) It seems a pretty good bet that if people are familiar with the tale of the USS Indianapolis they’ve also seen “Jaws.” During the famous, half-drunken soliloquy by...
Weeks after unveiling its long-gestating, multi-million-dollar collaboration with David Attenborough, Netflix made another strong statement in the factual space at this week’s World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) where new recruit Sara Edelson – Los Angeles-based manager for original docs – eschewed the...