{"id":17901,"date":"2022-11-28T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/escapade-media-boards-grassroots\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:35:25","slug":"escapade-media-boards-grassroots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/escapade-media-boards-grassroots\/","title":{"rendered":"Escapade Media Boards Grassroots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Escapade Media has joined Storyfirst and Hipster Films\u2019 new drama <em>Grassroots<\/em> as an executive producer.<\/p>\n<p>Created by John Godber and written by Elizabeth Godber, Jane Thornton and Nicola Quilter, <em>Grassroots<\/em> sees a women\u2019s rugby league team and an English community come together around the sport they all love in a post-Brexit and post-Covid world.<\/p>\n<p>The series is executive produced by Dominic Barlow (<em>A Discovery of Witches<\/em>, <em>The Crash<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to producing, Escapade Media holds rights for the series in the AsiaPac region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a project that we are all very passionate about, and we are thrilled and excited to be working in partnership with StoryFirst and Escapade,\u201d said Jo Lewis, producer at Hipster Films.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Gerwe, manager at Storyfirst, added, \u201cWe love this project\u2014the <em>Friday Night Lights<\/em> for women\u2019s rugby. John has done a fabulous job with the pilot script, and we can\u2019t wait to get this into production. We are very pleased to be working again with Escapade and see a bright future for our partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis series is so timely, and with the incredible creative team behind it, we are very excited to bring this series to market across the Asia Pacific,\u201d commented Natalie Lawley, managing director of Escapade Media. \u201cStoryfirst create premium original scripted content, and it is a real privilege to be working with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escapade Media has joined Storyfirst and Hipster Films\u2019 new drama Grassroots as an executive producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":17902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[5457,728,5458,5459,5460,5461,5462,2132],"class_list":["post-17901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-elizabeth-godber","tag-escapade-media","tag-grassroots","tag-hipster-films","tag-jane-thornton","tag-john-godber","tag-nicola-quilter","tag-storyfirst","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Escapade Media Boards Grassroots - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/escapade-media-boards-grassroots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Escapade Media Boards Grassroots - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Escapade Media has joined Storyfirst and Hipster Films\u2019 new drama Grassroots as an executive producer.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/escapade-media-boards-grassroots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-28T15:35:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/EscapadeMedia-Grassroots-1122.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"424\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/escapade-media-boards-grassroots\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/escapade-media-boards-grassroots\/\",\"name\":\"Escapade Media Boards Grassroots - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-28T15:35:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-28T15:35:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/escapade-media-boards-grassroots\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/escapade-media-boards-grassroots\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/escapade-media-boards-grassroots\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Escapade Media Boards Grassroots\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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