{"id":24574,"date":"2026-03-12T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-fully-acquires-the-story-collective\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:23:47","slug":"fifth-season-fully-acquires-the-story-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-fully-acquires-the-story-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Season Fully Acquires The Story Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifth Season has fully acquired A Thousand Blows<\/em> producer The Story Collective, which it backed with a minority investment when the label initially launched in 2021.<\/p>\n

As a result, co-founder Simon Vaughan will be leaving to open a new studio. Fellow co-founder Damian Keogh will remain as CEO and take on the additional role of senior VP and managing director of international scripted for Fifth Season.<\/p>\n

Ben Irving will continue to serve as senior VP and creative director of international scripted. A consolidated senior leadership team will collaborate across both slates.<\/p>\n

Vaughan\u2019s new studio, Storyworks, already has a first-look deal in place with Fifth Season, and it will work with The Story Collective on several preexisting projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe set the company up to partner with great creative talent and producers wholeheartedly and with a patient, nurturing and supportive ethos,\u201d Keough said. \u201cWe really believe in the team sport of it all and are proud of the roster of people and projects we have assembled in our Collective. Fifth Season has always recognized and encouraged our approach, and it\u2019s a natural and exciting next step to be joining forces, and I am looking forward to working more closely with Graham, Ben and other Fifth Season colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is exciting to see The Story Collective being consolidated within Fifth Season to help deliver the scaled enterprise we all set out to build together when we formed the company four years ago,\u201d added Vaughan. \u201cAnd also exciting for my new venture to be partnering with Fifth Season from the off\u2014the projects on our combined slates going forward are truly extraordinary, and I sense that the best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Story Collective was built by Damian, Simon and Helen [Jackson] on an ethos of creative collaboration, which we backed and have admired from its inception\u2014and it feels like a natural evolution to be consolidating in this way four years later, as we double down on our ambitions as a U.K. studio,\u201d commented Graham Taylor, CEO of Fifth Season. \u201cFifth Season\u2019s offering now has even greater firepower and an undeniable nexus of talent connections and projects to put our weight behind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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