BBC Studios Productions CEO Ralph Lee will exit the BBC’s commercial wing in April. He is leaving after six years to “pursue a new challenge outside the organisation.”
BBC Studios has initiated a search for a replacement, with Lee saying “the right time to explore other opportunities.”
Lee joined BBC Studios as Director of Content in 2018 and was made CEO of BBC Studios Productions in 2022, when the BBC pooled its Scripted, Factual, Global Entertainment and Kids & Family divisions into one single production hub.
Former Channel 4 Deputy Chief Creative Officer Lee has overseen production on returning and continuing titles such as Strictly Come Dancing, Happy Valley 3, EastEnders, Doctor Who, Prehistoric Planet, Good Omens, The Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final, Planet Earth III, The Coronation of King Charles III, Silent Witness and Black Ops – and original podcast series such as Vishal and Believe in Magic.
He also had oversight of...
BBC Studios has initiated a search for a replacement, with Lee saying “the right time to explore other opportunities.”
Lee joined BBC Studios as Director of Content in 2018 and was made CEO of BBC Studios Productions in 2022, when the BBC pooled its Scripted, Factual, Global Entertainment and Kids & Family divisions into one single production hub.
Former Channel 4 Deputy Chief Creative Officer Lee has overseen production on returning and continuing titles such as Strictly Come Dancing, Happy Valley 3, EastEnders, Doctor Who, Prehistoric Planet, Good Omens, The Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final, Planet Earth III, The Coronation of King Charles III, Silent Witness and Black Ops – and original podcast series such as Vishal and Believe in Magic.
He also had oversight of...
- 2/8/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Horse lovers – there’s a new documentary on the horizon.
Sony Pictures Classics has released the brand new trailer for Dark Horse.
Set in a former mining village in Wales, Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the land, before suffering a near fatal accident.
Nursed back to health by the love of his owners – for whom he’s become a source of inspiration and hope – he makes a remarkable recovery.
18 months later, defying all odds and judgement, Dream makes a heart-stopping comeback in the Welsh National. His fantastic victory makes the national news – Nags To Riches! Slumnag Millionaire! Champion The Wonder Horse! – and in all the...
Sony Pictures Classics has released the brand new trailer for Dark Horse.
Set in a former mining village in Wales, Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the land, before suffering a near fatal accident.
Nursed back to health by the love of his owners – for whom he’s become a source of inspiration and hope – he makes a remarkable recovery.
18 months later, defying all odds and judgement, Dream makes a heart-stopping comeback in the Welsh National. His fantastic victory makes the national news – Nags To Riches! Slumnag Millionaire! Champion The Wonder Horse! – and in all the...
- 12/4/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Classics nabs hit Sundance doc about rags to riches racehorse.
Sony Pictures Classics has snapped up all North American rights to hit Sundance documentary Dark Horse from Protagonist Pictures.
Louise Osmond’s crowd-pleaser about a horse brought up on a South Wales allotment who goes on to win one of racing’s biggest prizes, won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance last week.
The deal was negotiated with Spc by Protagonist head of sales Vanessa Saal.
Spc will be hoping to replicate the success of acclaimed feel-good documentary Searching for Sugar Man - also launched at Sundance and also bought from UK outfit Protagonist – which went on to win a Best Documentary Oscar in 2013.
Docu-drama Dark Horse follows the true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club in Wales who decide to take on the racing elite by breeding a race-horse. Against the odds...
Sony Pictures Classics has snapped up all North American rights to hit Sundance documentary Dark Horse from Protagonist Pictures.
Louise Osmond’s crowd-pleaser about a horse brought up on a South Wales allotment who goes on to win one of racing’s biggest prizes, won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance last week.
The deal was negotiated with Spc by Protagonist head of sales Vanessa Saal.
Spc will be hoping to replicate the success of acclaimed feel-good documentary Searching for Sugar Man - also launched at Sundance and also bought from UK outfit Protagonist – which went on to win a Best Documentary Oscar in 2013.
Docu-drama Dark Horse follows the true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club in Wales who decide to take on the racing elite by breeding a race-horse. Against the odds...
- 2/6/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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