Splash News & Zig Zag Productions Enter Content Deal

LOS ANGELES: Zig Zag Productions has secured the first option on select Splash News-owned content for original series or documentary programming.

The deal includes select celebrity news and unusual human-interest feature content. In addition to making this programming available to Zig Zag for its series and specials productions, Splash News will also handle optioning the TV rights to targeted news developments identified by both companies.

“Splash News has built a premiere global content company through its singular ability to successfully generate compelling celebrity news and eclectic news from off the beaten path,” said Danny Fenton, Zig Zag Productions’ CEO. “Our content deal with Splash News gives Zig Zag the platform to make TV shows about the biggest extraordinary human interest stories and celebrities in the world for international broadcasters.”
 
“Zig Zag is renowned for its acclaimed programming on celebrities, such as The Cheryl Cole Factor for Channel 5 as well as its extraordinary human interest specials, including The Girl with Eight Limbs for Nat Geo and Channel 4,” added Gary Morgan, CEO of Splash News. “We are delighted to work with this young and exciting company to contribute our content to their original and highly promotable series and specials.”