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EXCLUSIVE: UK-based CMG Productions and indie audio institution Stak are teaming connected a slate of podcasts.
The brace will co-develop and nutrient a slate of crime and athletics podcasts, which will beryllium expanded into “scalable, multi-platform” formats successful scripted and unscripted, peculiarly premium docs and drama.
CMG, launched successful 2021 by Rebecca Knight and Claire McArdle, some develops tv IP and provides accumulation services for U.S. and world networks connected projects specified arsenic The Agency and MobLand, while nan London-based Stak is known arsenic nan location of celebrated podcasts specified arsenic The Football Ramble, P1 pinch Matt and Tommy and anthology bid Legacy.
An first 4 original projects person been selected, pinch nan stories hailing from nan UK, U.S., South Africa and Latin America. Each is successful improvement stage, pinch CMG and Stak successful discussions pinch platforms and different commissioners.
McArdle, Co-CEO of CMG Productions, said: “It was clear from our first conversations pinch Stak that we were aligned connected really to show these captivating stories successful nan athletics and crime space. Stak are leaders successful nan podcast accumulation industry, and this business is an opportunity to bring these high-stakes stories to life successful audio formats and beyond. We’re delighted to beryllium moving pinch their squad to make that happen.”
“Working pinch CMG is an breathtaking caller task for us, and 1 we’re really looking guardant to building on,” added Nicky Anderson, Head of Narrative astatine Stak. “This collaboration is astir bringing together 2 starring imaginative companies successful their respective fields, that are agreed by a shared belief successful nan powerfulness of storytelling and a committedness to evolving nan formats and mediums done which those stories are told.”
