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EXCLUSIVE: Skyscraper Live shaper Plimsoll Productions is rebranding arsenic Plimsoll Studios, pinch U.S. leader Alan Eyres returning to nan UK to oversee an enlarged imaginative unit.
The reorganization sees ITV Studios (ITVS)-owned Plimsoll divided into 5 divisions: Natural History & Adventure, Live, Entertainment, Family & Kids and Digital. The second 2 are efficaciously new, pinch Alex Ranken and Ged Mansfield starring nan family portion and Aardman’s Neil Warwick hired arsenic Senior Executive to lead digital.
Eyres moves from his L.A.-based domiciled arsenic Head of Plimsoll USA to Plimsoll’s Bristol headquarters, wherever he will go Chief Development Officer. In effect, this will spot him overseeing Plimsoll’s improvement portfolio, assigning resources arsenic and wherever they’re needed.
He will proceed to study to Plimsoll laminitis and CEO Grant Mansfield, who said: “Alan has done a stellar occupation since joining america 3 years ago, helping to create and executive nutrient immoderate of our champion and boldest titles, including Skyscraper Live and Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston. His caller domiciled puts him successful a pivotal imaginative position at Plimsoll Studios, giving him strategical oversight of a hugely exciting, eager and divers improvement slate.”
Plimsoll is champion known for earthy history shows specified arsenic Disney+’s A Real Bug’s Life, but has besides moved into unrecorded events specified arsenic Netflix’s Skyscraper Live and is down BBC bid Secret Garden, which has been pitched to networks successful nan U.S. arsenic a format, pinch greenlight nearing, we understand.
Eyres, who joined Plimsoll successful 2023, added: “In an on-demand world wherever audiences person unprecedented choice, only nan biggest and boldest ideas are capable to break through. I’m thrilled to beryllium playing a domiciled successful a accumulation institution synonymous pinch creatively audacious and eager projects crossed aggregate genres.”
Warwick, who will tally nan integer division, created Aardman’s YouTube business, generating triple-digit gross maturation wrong its first twelvemonth done shows specified arsenic Learning Time pinch Timmy. Plimsoll’s integer business, which was softly established past year, will activity pinch ITVS’s Zoo 55 and Studio 55 operations.
“Exploiting Plimsoll’s increasing catalog of IP successful nan integer abstraction positive creating caller contented is simply a cardinal strategical privilege for nan company,” said Jonathan Jackson, Plimsoll’s COO and CFO. “Neil has done an unthinkable occupation building a integer beingness for Aardman and we are assured he’ll do nan aforesaid for Plimsoll.”
Plimsoll’s caller commissions see Nightmares of Nature with Blumhouse Television for Netflix, IMAX feature documentary Horse Power six-time Emmy award-winning A Real Bug’s Life for Disney+. This summer, nan institution is group launch Nat Geo/Disney+’s Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston and ITV’s Force of Nature. Older shows see Hostile Planet and Tiny World.
Plimsoll’s genitor company, ITVS, is group to go an independent subordinate pinch Sky announcing a £1.6B ($2.1B) woody to get nan ITV web earlier this month. Plimsoll has been portion of ITVS since 2022, erstwhile a £103.5M woody was struck.
