Exclusive: Plimsoll Productions, the production company behind series including Nat Geo’s Hostile Planet and Yellowstone Live, is ramping up its U.S. activities with the hire of former Covert Media exec Saul Goldberg to run its La office.
This comes after the natural history producer, which is making raft of series for streaming services, including commissions from Apple’s forthcoming platform, received multi-million-dollar investment from private equity firm Ldc.
Goldberg joins the company, founded by former Zodiak USA chief Grant Mansfield, as Vice President of Development and Production. He will oversee Plimsoll’s U.S. slate across factual entertainment and documentaries, building on its footprint, which now amounts to more than 75% of its business. He will work closely with Plimsoll Head of Factual Entertainment Karen Plumb, Head of Documentaries Richard Klein, and President of International Production and Development Andrew Jackson.
Most recently, Goldberg served as Head of Unscripted TV...
This comes after the natural history producer, which is making raft of series for streaming services, including commissions from Apple’s forthcoming platform, received multi-million-dollar investment from private equity firm Ldc.
Goldberg joins the company, founded by former Zodiak USA chief Grant Mansfield, as Vice President of Development and Production. He will oversee Plimsoll’s U.S. slate across factual entertainment and documentaries, building on its footprint, which now amounts to more than 75% of its business. He will work closely with Plimsoll Head of Factual Entertainment Karen Plumb, Head of Documentaries Richard Klein, and President of International Production and Development Andrew Jackson.
Most recently, Goldberg served as Head of Unscripted TV...
- 9/4/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Plimsoll Productions, the production company behind series including Nat Geo’s Hostile Planet and Yellowstone Live, has secured multi-million-dollar investment from private equity firm Ldc.
The investment firm has taken a minority stake in the natural history and wildlife producer, which was founded by former Zodiak USA chief Grant Mansfield. The deal values the company at around $100M.
Headquartered in Bristol, UK, Plimsoll was founded in 2013 and has more than 400 employees across the UK and La. It is behind more than 50 series, 14 live shows and seven films including Channel 4’s Rescue Dog to Super Dog and ITV’s Life at the Extreme. It is also making a raft of series for streaming services, including commissions from Apple’s forthcoming platform.
The company is on track to generate sales of around $42M for its financial year ending August 2019 including sales to a slew of international broadcasters via distributor Magnify Media,...
The investment firm has taken a minority stake in the natural history and wildlife producer, which was founded by former Zodiak USA chief Grant Mansfield. The deal values the company at around $100M.
Headquartered in Bristol, UK, Plimsoll was founded in 2013 and has more than 400 employees across the UK and La. It is behind more than 50 series, 14 live shows and seven films including Channel 4’s Rescue Dog to Super Dog and ITV’s Life at the Extreme. It is also making a raft of series for streaming services, including commissions from Apple’s forthcoming platform.
The company is on track to generate sales of around $42M for its financial year ending August 2019 including sales to a slew of international broadcasters via distributor Magnify Media,...
- 8/12/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Spencer Mullen Jun 27, 2019
Years and Years, The Rise of Skywalker, Yellowstone Live, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
Here's how Years and Years shows America's collapse across the pond.
"Sometimes you need an outside opinion. Whether it's on the fit of a shirt, a concerning medical diagnosis, or a sinking suspicion that the rest of the world is laughing at you, we all need that person who will tell it to us straight. The United Kingdom, our ally across the pond, has long played this role for America. And our latest wake-up call might come in the form of Years and Years, a new BBC One miniseries that arrives stateside via HBO on Monday."
Read more at The Week.
Here's how Maz Kanata may solve a major mystery in The Rise of Skywalker.
"There’s plenty of moving pieces on the Star Wars: Episode IX — Rise of Skywalker chessboard right now,...
Years and Years, The Rise of Skywalker, Yellowstone Live, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
Here's how Years and Years shows America's collapse across the pond.
"Sometimes you need an outside opinion. Whether it's on the fit of a shirt, a concerning medical diagnosis, or a sinking suspicion that the rest of the world is laughing at you, we all need that person who will tell it to us straight. The United Kingdom, our ally across the pond, has long played this role for America. And our latest wake-up call might come in the form of Years and Years, a new BBC One miniseries that arrives stateside via HBO on Monday."
Read more at The Week.
Here's how Maz Kanata may solve a major mystery in The Rise of Skywalker.
"There’s plenty of moving pieces on the Star Wars: Episode IX — Rise of Skywalker chessboard right now,...
- 6/27/2019
- Den of Geek
Over the decades that the national park has fascinated the public, there’s an obvious list of animals that get associated with Yellowstone. From nature programs like the ongoing, four-night “Yellowstone Live” event happening this week on NatGeo to the gift shops in and around the park, images of grizzly bears, elk, bison, and bald eagles seem to go hand in hand with the park itself. But over the past two years, “Yellowstone Live” has also found a surprising addition to those ranks: the beaver.
James Hogan, a wildlife cinematographer who is following a number of animals for live broadcasts throughout the park for “Yellowstone Live,” has been filming beavers for decades. With his lengthy experience tracking these animals, he’s had plenty of experience in seeing how the tiniest exposure to them can garner fast fans.
“I gotta say that I’ve been filming these beavers for like 20 years...
James Hogan, a wildlife cinematographer who is following a number of animals for live broadcasts throughout the park for “Yellowstone Live,” has been filming beavers for decades. With his lengthy experience tracking these animals, he’s had plenty of experience in seeing how the tiniest exposure to them can garner fast fans.
“I gotta say that I’ve been filming these beavers for like 20 years...
- 6/26/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
On the second day of summer, it snowed in Montana.
At upper elevations in and around Yellowstone National Park, there were multiple days of some very uncharacteristic June weather. It may seem like that turn of meteorological events would be cause for concern for a production team staring down four straight nights of live programming from America’s most famous national park. But it may have turned out to be a last unexpected piece to the puzzle.
“The backdrop is fantastic. I am the only person here who was thrilled that it snowed,” Al Berman joked with reporters this past weekend. As an executive producer on the series, Berman knew that having snow in key areas of the park, particularly in the Lamar Valley region, would make for some incredible images of high-profile animal occupants walking along a wintery-looking ground past the end of spring.
Airing last year in August,...
At upper elevations in and around Yellowstone National Park, there were multiple days of some very uncharacteristic June weather. It may seem like that turn of meteorological events would be cause for concern for a production team staring down four straight nights of live programming from America’s most famous national park. But it may have turned out to be a last unexpected piece to the puzzle.
“The backdrop is fantastic. I am the only person here who was thrilled that it snowed,” Al Berman joked with reporters this past weekend. As an executive producer on the series, Berman knew that having snow in key areas of the park, particularly in the Lamar Valley region, would make for some incredible images of high-profile animal occupants walking along a wintery-looking ground past the end of spring.
Airing last year in August,...
- 6/25/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
“Yellowstone Live” finished its debut four-night run on a Wednesday last August. But before the week was over, the team behind the show knew they wanted to take on the ambitious live TV nature event again, and they knew exactly what this year’s version needed.
Baby animals. Lots and lots of baby animals.
Beginning Sunday night, Nat Geo will present another quartet of primetime one-hour installments, capturing the activity happening in the park at this summer’s opening. Teams of camera crews will be broadcasting live footage of animals and natural phenomena, mixed in with pre-recorded segments to help give audiences at home some context for what they’re seeing. Showrunner James Smith said that having this event earlier this year was a direct response to wanting to feature smaller young animals as part of the series’ broadcasts.
“July and August gets very dry, but May and June is when it’s really lush.
Baby animals. Lots and lots of baby animals.
Beginning Sunday night, Nat Geo will present another quartet of primetime one-hour installments, capturing the activity happening in the park at this summer’s opening. Teams of camera crews will be broadcasting live footage of animals and natural phenomena, mixed in with pre-recorded segments to help give audiences at home some context for what they’re seeing. Showrunner James Smith said that having this event earlier this year was a direct response to wanting to feature smaller young animals as part of the series’ broadcasts.
“July and August gets very dry, but May and June is when it’s really lush.
- 6/23/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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