Orchard Studios, the new production company founded by former Amazon Studios U.K. exec Dan Grabiner, has hired a trio of heavyweight execs to round out its new senior creative team.
Nat Lippiett, Clare Mottershead and Dani Carpanen have joined the company, which is headed by Grabiner as CEO and managing director Nicola Hill.
Lippiett, an award-winning executive producer, joins the company as head of programmes. A former ITN executive, his credits include “Harry: The Interview” and Prime Video documentary series “The Confession.” Mottershead has been hired as head of factual and formats. She moves over from the BBC where she was lead commissioner in factual entertainment and events, overseeing titles including “The Antiques Roadshow” and “Interior Design Masters.” Carpanen joins as senior producer. She boasts credits on projects such as “The Baby Borrowers” and “Save Our Squad with David Beckham.”
Orchard was founded earlier this year by Grabiner, the...
Nat Lippiett, Clare Mottershead and Dani Carpanen have joined the company, which is headed by Grabiner as CEO and managing director Nicola Hill.
Lippiett, an award-winning executive producer, joins the company as head of programmes. A former ITN executive, his credits include “Harry: The Interview” and Prime Video documentary series “The Confession.” Mottershead has been hired as head of factual and formats. She moves over from the BBC where she was lead commissioner in factual entertainment and events, overseeing titles including “The Antiques Roadshow” and “Interior Design Masters.” Carpanen joins as senior producer. She boasts credits on projects such as “The Baby Borrowers” and “Save Our Squad with David Beckham.”
Orchard was founded earlier this year by Grabiner, the...
- 11/7/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
CBS is getting into the baking business. The broadcast network announced today that it has ordered the series Bake Off, based on the U.K. competition show The Great British Bake Off, which aired its season 3 finale on BBC2 on Tuesday. The episode scored the series’ highest rating when 6.5 million turned out to watch.
Expected to begin airing sometime in 2013, Bake Off (which is a working title) will feature skilled amateur Americans competing in baking challenges for the winning title.
The series will be executive produced by Richard McKerrow, who also exec. produced The Great British Bake Off. His other...
Expected to begin airing sometime in 2013, Bake Off (which is a working title) will feature skilled amateur Americans competing in baking challenges for the winning title.
The series will be executive produced by Richard McKerrow, who also exec. produced The Great British Bake Off. His other...
- 10/17/2012
- by Emily Rome
- EW - Inside TV
British factual TV production company Love Prods., which made its entry into the U.S. reality marketplace with the NBC series The Baby Borrowers, has tapped producer/development executive Benny Reuven to run its Us production arm as Svp. He will oversee all development and format creation for Love Prods. USA as well as adapt and sell U.S. versions of Love's existing U.K. and worldwide formats. Reuven joins Love Prods. from Own: Oprah Winfrey Network, where he has been a programming and development executive for the past two years. There, he crossed paths with Love Prods. USA whose second U.S. series, Kidnapped by the Kids, is slated to premiere on Own in the spring. Appropriately, given the name of the company, Reuven starts at Love Prods. on Valentine's Day. "This is a very exciting time for Love Prods. USA as we look to develop an even stronger presence in the States,...
- 1/19/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Berlin -- Rtl again proved there is no such thing as bad publicity as its teen parenting reality show "Erwachsen Auf Probe" rode rough shod over a storm of public protest to a ratings win Wednesday night.
The show, a German adaptation of NBC format "The Baby Borrowers," scored a 19.1% market share with 2.2 million viewers in the key 14-49 demographic.
Rtl had to fend off attacks from politicians, church groups and parenting organizations to get "Erwachsen" on air. On Wednesday a German court overturned a suit aimed at blocking the show before its primetime debut.
Critics claimed the show -- in which teenagers test their (mostly non-existent) parenting skills on other people's kids -- violated the children's' rights and amounted to little more than crass voyeurism.
The show, a German adaptation of NBC format "The Baby Borrowers," scored a 19.1% market share with 2.2 million viewers in the key 14-49 demographic.
Rtl had to fend off attacks from politicians, church groups and parenting organizations to get "Erwachsen" on air. On Wednesday a German court overturned a suit aimed at blocking the show before its primetime debut.
Critics claimed the show -- in which teenagers test their (mostly non-existent) parenting skills on other people's kids -- violated the children's' rights and amounted to little more than crass voyeurism.
- 6/5/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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