Passion to Represent World of Wonder Catalogue

LONDON, June 13: Passion
Distribution, a venture recently launched by former iD Distribution chief Sally
Miles, has inked an exclusive deal with World of Wonder to represent all of its
programming and formats.

Passion will be
distributing World of Wonder’s back catalogue and new programming going
forward, including Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood and David Ogilvy: The First Mad Man. World of Wonder’s catalogue contains a wide range
of genres, including factual, scripted, soap docs and arts docs.

Randy Barbato, the
co-principal of World of Wonder, commented: “Never more so has there been a
need for us to work with international production partners seeking finance
towards budgets etc. and Sally Miles and her team are the best at being
proactive in this field for us.” Fenton Bailey, the fellow co-principal of
World of Wonder, added, “The value that Sally has always provided goes beyond
plain old distribution. She understands and has great relationships with all
the international players and is adept at finding solutions to their needs and
ours.”

Miles said: “I am honored
to be working with both of World of Wonder’s L.A. and London teams. Both
offices produce compelling, quality programming and sell extremely well in the
international market. Fenton and Randy and their teams are a joy to work with
and they are very savvy about the opportunities outside of their primary
territories. I am also very excited that straight off the starting block we
have top-selling series Tori & Dean. With the two seasons produced and now the brand-new season that
promises to be bigger (Tori is expecting her second baby) and better (and moves
back to celebrity manic Hollywood to make more money!) this is such a strong
brand now to be taking to the international market.”

—By Kristin Brzoznowski