Common Studio Group Ties With ‘Cooking With The Stars’ South Shore – Deadline

Two of Common Studio Group’s TV divisions have struck a improvement cope with South Shore, the Cooking with the Stars producer run by former Twofour bosses Melanie Leach and Andrew Mackenzie.

The deal was unveiled at Content material London this afternoon and can see South Shore co-develop and co-produce a minimal of three unscripted initiatives of scale for the worldwide market with Common Tv Different Studio (UTAS) and Common Worldwide Studios (UIS). The main focus shall be on social experiments, actuality and competitors codecs.

South Shore may have entry to Common’s transatlantic assets together with expertise and IP because the pair search a non-scripted pipeline.

“We’ve loved creating latest initiatives with the UTAS & UIS groups and we’re thrilled to be engaged on these three initiatives with them,” mentioned Leach and Mackenzie.

The pair, who ran Twofour for a number of years, launched ITV Studios-backed South Shore in 2019 and the corporate has since produced the likes of BBC One’s Freddie Flintoff’s Discipline of Desires, ITV’s Cooking with the Stars and Channel 4 property format Promoting Tremendous Prime.

The information comes within the week that UIS signed an unique cope with Dwelling Staff, the scripted outfit run by The Finish of the F***ing World exec Dominic Buchanan and Mogul Mowgli’s Bennett McGhee.

UTAS’ UK model of Jimmy Fallon’s That’s My Jam for the BBC is because of air later this 12 months, in the meantime, with Mo Gilligan internet hosting and Monkey co-producing.