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Fremantle’s scripted podcast producer Storyglass is to be spun out into a standalone company within the Bertelsmann Group, and will now make shows across a variety of genres including scripted, documentary, true crime, lifestyle and music.
Storyglass previously sat in Fremantle’s drama unit, but will become a standalone outfit at the producer’s parent company Bertelsmann, sitting alongside Fremantle itself and the likes of Penguin Random House UK, BMG and Dk. It is part of Bertelsmann’s “content alliance” initiative to encourage collaboration between the companies it owns.
Bertelsmann is currently recruiting for a commercial director to run Storyglass, while a creative director will also be appointed to develop the company’s creative and talent strategy and manage all podcast production. Robert Delamere is the current creative director of Storyglass.
Baroness Gail Rebuck, chair of the Bertelsmann content alliance UK, said: “Creativity defines each of these businesses and...
Storyglass previously sat in Fremantle’s drama unit, but will become a standalone outfit at the producer’s parent company Bertelsmann, sitting alongside Fremantle itself and the likes of Penguin Random House UK, BMG and Dk. It is part of Bertelsmann’s “content alliance” initiative to encourage collaboration between the companies it owns.
Bertelsmann is currently recruiting for a commercial director to run Storyglass, while a creative director will also be appointed to develop the company’s creative and talent strategy and manage all podcast production. Robert Delamere is the current creative director of Storyglass.
Baroness Gail Rebuck, chair of the Bertelsmann content alliance UK, said: “Creativity defines each of these businesses and...
- 7/13/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
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Related story: BSkyB reports drop in shares
LONDON -- It is intended to to be the very theater of shareholder democracy, but attendees at BSkyB's annual general meeting Friday were left wondering if the event had more in common with a pantomime, with scarcely a genuine investor in sight.
Not that the luridly blue-lit room at the Royal Institute of British Architects was empty at 9 a.m. on Friday morning, far from it. A head count of around ninety smartly dressed types milling around the room, attempting to look busy in a tense atmosphere.
There were a lot of press, for a start; the Sky meeting provides one of the very few occasions for Brit reporters to find themselves in the presence of a genuine global media mogul, and an opportunity to share the same hallowed air as News Corp. CEO and BSkyB chairman Rupert Murdoch is too good to pass up.
No fewer than three reporters had turned up from the Financial Times alone.
Perhaps they were there for the chance to eyeball the satcaster's 15-strong board, which is replete with its own share of business luminaries.
Entrepreneur Allan Leighton, News Corp. counsel Arthur Siskind, Random House chairman and chief executive Gail Rebuck, Blackstone general partner and banking scion Jacob Rothschild were just some of the execs who had cleared their schedules to assemble dutifully for the annual event.
There was a healthy turnout of Sky's own execs and some from its affiliated PR agencies, who also filed in to make sure everything ran to plan.
LONDON -- It is intended to to be the very theater of shareholder democracy, but attendees at BSkyB's annual general meeting Friday were left wondering if the event had more in common with a pantomime, with scarcely a genuine investor in sight.
Not that the luridly blue-lit room at the Royal Institute of British Architects was empty at 9 a.m. on Friday morning, far from it. A head count of around ninety smartly dressed types milling around the room, attempting to look busy in a tense atmosphere.
There were a lot of press, for a start; the Sky meeting provides one of the very few occasions for Brit reporters to find themselves in the presence of a genuine global media mogul, and an opportunity to share the same hallowed air as News Corp. CEO and BSkyB chairman Rupert Murdoch is too good to pass up.
No fewer than three reporters had turned up from the Financial Times alone.
Perhaps they were there for the chance to eyeball the satcaster's 15-strong board, which is replete with its own share of business luminaries.
Entrepreneur Allan Leighton, News Corp. counsel Arthur Siskind, Random House chairman and chief executive Gail Rebuck, Blackstone general partner and banking scion Jacob Rothschild were just some of the execs who had cleared their schedules to assemble dutifully for the annual event.
There was a healthy turnout of Sky's own execs and some from its affiliated PR agencies, who also filed in to make sure everything ran to plan.
- 11/3/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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A lawsuit filed against The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has been thrown out of a London court yesterday, after a judge ruled the writer did not steal plot ideas from other texts. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh - two of the three authors of The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail - alleged Brown had reproduced themes from their 1982 novel and filed a subsequent lawsuit against Random House, the publisher of both books. Their original suit was dismissed in April 2006, when the London's High Court ruled Brown had not plagiarized themes from the authors' work, but after the ruling in the Court of Appeal, Baigent and Leigh now face legal bills of $5.85 million. In a statement released after the appeal's rejection, they said, "We believed, and still do, that non-fiction authors would suffer and be discouraged from extensive research if it was found that any author could take another's ideas, 'morph' and repackage them, then sell them on." Gail Rebuck, head of Random House, hailed the ruling as a victory for "creative writing." She says, "Misguided claims like the one that we have faced, and the appeal, are not good for authors, and not good for publishers. But we are glad that the Court of Appeal has upheld the original judgment and that, once again, common sense and justice have prevailed, helping to ensure the future of creative writing in the UK." Published in 2003, The Da Vinci Code has now sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
- 3/29/2007
- WENN
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