Target Signs New U.K. Output Deals

LONDON, October 9: Target Entertainment Group has closed
output deals with British indie producers Flame TV and Hotbed Media to exploit
the companies’ catalogues worldwide.

Hotbed Media, which features titles such as Win My Wage, Star Portraits with Rolf Harris and Date My Daughter, specializes in factual-entertainment formats and
quiz shows. Flame TV, a lifestyle and factual-entertainment producer, is
responsible for the series Don’t Get Done, Get Dom, Heir Hunters and Saints and Scroungers.

Through its London, New York and Los Angeles offices, Target
will work to drive the sale of both companies’ slates internationally. Target
is also responsible for maximizing potential Flame TV’s and Hotbed Media’s
programs to U.K. secondary TV platforms.

Georgina Eyre, the acquisitions manager at Target
Entertainment Group, said: “We are thrilled to be working with two of the
U.K.’s most talented production companies. Both have extensive lifestyle and
format slates, which will further boost Target’s catalogue. We are very much
looking forward to developing long-term relationships with them both.”

Johannah Dyer, the CEO of Hotbed Media, added: “We are
delighted to be working with Target Entertainment Group on the international
exploitation of our programs and formats. The team really impressed us with
their ambition and enthusiasm for our slate and we look forward to working
together to captalize on the exciting opportunities in the global market.”

Julius O’ Dowd, the commercial director at Flame TV,
commented: “We are delighted to have partnered with Target and feel that they
can assist us strategically both to exploit our successful U.K. programming
abroad, and to help achieve our ambitions to expand into the U.S.”

—By Kristin Brzoznowski