New Drama Outfit for Tinopolis

LONDON, December 7: Tinopolis is restructuring Mentorn,
moving the production subsidiary’s drama output to a new venture, Daybreak
Pictures, that will be run by Mentorn’s head of drama, David Aukin, and
executive producer, Hal Vogel.

Aukin will be managing director of Daybreak. Vogel and
Mentorn CEO John Willis will be directors and Arwel Rees, MD of Tinopolis, will
be Daybreak’s chairman. The company will be part of the Mentorn Group.

Channel 4 has already commissioned Daybreak to produce a
drama on Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko, the Russian spy who died in London
last month after being poisoned. It is being written and directed by Peter
Kosminsky. Kosminsky and Aukin most recently worked together on Mentorn’s
multi-BAFTA winning The Government Inspector.

Daybreak is also producing The Trial of Tony Blair for Channel4/More4; Confessions of a Diary
Secretary, for ITV1; and Britz also for Channel 4.