EXCLUSIVE: Two well-known UK indies will grow to be one as All3Media’s Goal Media Group consolidates Triple Brew and Betty into a brand new, as-yet-unnamed single label, Deadline has realized.
The restructure of Goal’s unscripted enterprise means the prodcos’ mixed slate, together with the likes of The Dice, Lingo, Wheeler Sellers and Bear Grylls sequence Bear’s Mission With…, might be housed beneath one roof, with the well-known Betty and Triple Brew labels ceasing to exist. The rejig will imply job losses, we hear.
Goal homes a cluster of indie labels spanning scripted, factual and leisure. It is without doubt one of the UK’s best-known manufacturing teams with a number of bases throughout the UK and an workplace in LA. It’s owned by All3Media, which is within the throes of being acquired by RedBird IMI in a $1.45B deal.
Quiz and gameshow-focused Triple Brew Media was fashioned in 2019. It’s led by Ben Shephard, additionally a well-liked on-screen presenter within the UK, and Becca Walker and Ed De Burgh. The producer makes reveals together with Lingo and The Dice, in addition to Alan Carr-hosted gameshow Image Slam, which was just lately recommissioned by BBC One. The brand new season of the US model of Lingo, hosted by Rupaul Charles, bows later this month on CBS.
All3Media acquired Betty TV from its then co-parent Discovery in 2017. The indie has made reveals comparable to Wheeler Sellers, The Undateables, Bear’s Mission With… and a number of other packages with celebrities together with Fred Sirieix and Italian chef Gino D’Acampo. It’s headed by David Harrison and Helen Cooke.
Goal has been a part of All3Media since 2007. A spokesperson confirmed the Betty and Triple Brew information and issued a really temporary assertion to Deadline. “We’re present process a strategic restructure throughout our unscripted labels.”
Each Betty and Triple brew are established labels throughout the Goal group. Information that they are going to have their slates mixed and can now not operate as standalone producers comes because the UK manufacturing sector endures difficult occasions. Channels are reining in spending, the streamer spending growth has cooled, and commissions are tougher to return by. A number of Indies, together with I Wanna Marry Harry maker Zig Zag Productions, have been compelled to take drastic measures to outlive and plenty of stay threatened.