Hat Trick Productions, the UK production company behind Showtime’s Matt LeBlanc-fronted comedy Episodes and forthcoming Anna Paquin-fronted drama Flack, is eyeing a sale after appointing advisers Stella Eoc.
Founder Jimmy Mulville, who set up the company in 1986 with Denise O’Donoghue and Rory McGrath, has appointed the advisory firm, which has handled deals for Sony Pictures Television and Red Arrow, to sound out investment opportunities.
He told the Sunday Times that it was similar to “bringing in an estate agent to value your house,” adding that he had no intention of leaving the business. “I have it on strict orders from my wife never to retire. You’ll have to beat me out of here with a stick,” he added.
The company has been on a recent roll, particularly with the success of Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls and long-running satire Have I Got News For You,...
Founder Jimmy Mulville, who set up the company in 1986 with Denise O’Donoghue and Rory McGrath, has appointed the advisory firm, which has handled deals for Sony Pictures Television and Red Arrow, to sound out investment opportunities.
He told the Sunday Times that it was similar to “bringing in an estate agent to value your house,” adding that he had no intention of leaving the business. “I have it on strict orders from my wife never to retire. You’ll have to beat me out of here with a stick,” he added.
The company has been on a recent roll, particularly with the success of Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls and long-running satire Have I Got News For You,...
- 6/4/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Clip and archive-based programmes are ten-a-penny these days, but have you ever wanted to know what Linford Christie's TV guilty pleasure is?
Well, now's your chance - a new BBC One daytime show has been commissioned that will see celebrities taking a nostalgic look back at their favourite TV shows.
Hosted by Brian Conley, TV That Made Me will see famous guests including former Olympic 100m champion Christie talking about their TV obsessions, family favourites, guilty pleasures and biggest influences.
EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy, BBC Breakfast's Carol Kirkwood and poet Pam Ayres are among those taking part, along with Rory McGrath, Gok Wan, Sandi Toksvig, Jo Wood, Vanessa Feltz and Eamonn Holmes.
Raise the Roof Productions, who previously worked on Len Goodman's Holiday of My Lifetime, will make the 20-episode series.
BBC daytime and early peak commissioner Jo Street said: "We were blown away by the success of...
Well, now's your chance - a new BBC One daytime show has been commissioned that will see celebrities taking a nostalgic look back at their favourite TV shows.
Hosted by Brian Conley, TV That Made Me will see famous guests including former Olympic 100m champion Christie talking about their TV obsessions, family favourites, guilty pleasures and biggest influences.
EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy, BBC Breakfast's Carol Kirkwood and poet Pam Ayres are among those taking part, along with Rory McGrath, Gok Wan, Sandi Toksvig, Jo Wood, Vanessa Feltz and Eamonn Holmes.
Raise the Roof Productions, who previously worked on Len Goodman's Holiday of My Lifetime, will make the 20-episode series.
BBC daytime and early peak commissioner Jo Street said: "We were blown away by the success of...
- 4/21/2015
- Digital Spy
Sam Bain lifts the lid on 'painful' decision to turn down HBO series, Three Men in a Boat stars enter choppy waters – and Britain's smelliest-looking celebrity
This week's comedy news
Laughing Stock this week brings you news, not of something that's happened in the world of comedy, but something that didn't. According to an interview with Peep Show creator Sam Bain on the Stateside podcast A Bit of a Chat, Bain and his writing partner Jesse Armstrong "were about a week away from flying to La to co-create Flight of the Conchords, and then Peep Show got recommissioned and we couldn't go".
Bain and Armstrong had agreed to make the HBO series with Conchords stars Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement – "[although] we didn't know it was gonna be as good as it was," Bain told interviewer Ken Plume. (It turned out – with the Conchords' eventual co-writer James Bobin – to be very good indeed.
This week's comedy news
Laughing Stock this week brings you news, not of something that's happened in the world of comedy, but something that didn't. According to an interview with Peep Show creator Sam Bain on the Stateside podcast A Bit of a Chat, Bain and his writing partner Jesse Armstrong "were about a week away from flying to La to co-create Flight of the Conchords, and then Peep Show got recommissioned and we couldn't go".
Bain and Armstrong had agreed to make the HBO series with Conchords stars Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement – "[although] we didn't know it was gonna be as good as it was," Bain told interviewer Ken Plume. (It turned out – with the Conchords' eventual co-writer James Bobin – to be very good indeed.
- 5/22/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce looks really sumptuous – if only there was something actually happening
My local video rental place didn't have a copy of Michael Curtiz's 1945 film Mildred Pierce for which Joan Crawford won an Oscar; and I spent an unsuccessful evening trying to download it (legally, illegally, who knows, surely it's so ancient it doesn't matter?) from the internet. I have seen it but clearly I don't remember it well enough to make any meaningful comparison between it and Todd Haynes's new five-part HBO mini-series version of Mildred Pierce (Sky Atlantic, Saturday). I can picture Crawford, in all the pomp and glory of 1940s Hollywood melodrama, Acting with a capital A.
Kate Winslet's new Mildred is subtler and more nuanced. It's a beautiful performance, of a woman in dowdy dresses struggling to maintain her social status in the depression of the the 1930s. When we first meet her,...
My local video rental place didn't have a copy of Michael Curtiz's 1945 film Mildred Pierce for which Joan Crawford won an Oscar; and I spent an unsuccessful evening trying to download it (legally, illegally, who knows, surely it's so ancient it doesn't matter?) from the internet. I have seen it but clearly I don't remember it well enough to make any meaningful comparison between it and Todd Haynes's new five-part HBO mini-series version of Mildred Pierce (Sky Atlantic, Saturday). I can picture Crawford, in all the pomp and glory of 1940s Hollywood melodrama, Acting with a capital A.
Kate Winslet's new Mildred is subtler and more nuanced. It's a beautiful performance, of a woman in dowdy dresses struggling to maintain her social status in the depression of the the 1930s. When we first meet her,...
- 6/24/2011
- by Sam Wollaston
- The Guardian - Film News
Three Men Go To Scotland pulled in a respectable audience for BBC Two on Thursday night, according to overnight data. Comedians Griff Rhys Jones, Rory McGrath and Dara O'Briain entertained 2.6m (10%) on their travels in the 9pm hour, 400k down on Monday's opener. Following Three Men, festive editions of The Rob Brydon Show, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Shooting Stars and Mock The Week amused respective audiences of 1.92m (7.7%), 1.67m (6.7%), 1.33m (5.6%) and 1.58m (8.2%). Meanwhile, 1960s one-off drama Toast, starring Helena Bonham Carter, delivered an impressive 6.2m (25.3%) to BBC One between 9pm and 10.30pm, thrashing ITV1's Ad of the Year which had 3.33m (13.4%). (more)...
- 1/4/2011
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
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