{"id":8031,"date":"2017-07-20T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T13:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-u-k\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:12:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T17:12:19","slug":"banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-in-the-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-in-the-u-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Banijay Launches New Scripted Venture in the U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay Group has launched a new scripted production company in the U.K., Fearless Minds, in association with Jolyon Symonds.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes following the creation of BlackLight TV earlier this year. Fearless Minds will operate under the leadership of Symonds as managing director. He has produced such shows as <em>Thorne<\/em> for Sky and <em>Complicit<\/em> for Channel 4. Symonds previously ran On The Corner Entertainment with producer James Gay Rees, actor David Morrissey and director Asif Kapadia.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Langenberg, COO of Banijay Group, said, \u201cWe are excited to work with such an acclaimed scripted producer as Jolyon Symonds. This joint venture again shows our ambition to grow our global scripted business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Symonds\u00a0noted, \u201cI am delighted to be in partnership with the Banijay Group, which has impressed me with the level of its ambition and commitment to having a significant presence in the scripted arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Takis Candilis, the head of fiction at Banijay Group, commented, &#8220;The creation of Fearless Minds shows, once again, Banijay Group&#8217;s desire to strengthen its position in the scripted genre in the U.K., and in each of the 11 countries where our companies produce fiction. Thanks to Jolyon Symonds for bringing his expertise and his talent to our international network of creative producers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay Group has launched a new scripted production company in the U.K., Fearless Minds, in association with Jolyon Symonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":8032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1311,2008,2009],"class_list":["post-8031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-banijay-group","tag-fearless-minds","tag-jolyon-symonds","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Banijay Launches New Scripted Venture in the U.K. - 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\/banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-in-the-u-k\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banijay Launches New Scripted Venture in the U.K. - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Banijay Group has launched a new scripted production company in the U.K., Fearless Minds, in association with Jolyon Symonds.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-in-the-u-k\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-20T13:35:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-07-20T17:12:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/09\/Jolyon_Symonds-717.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\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\/banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-in-the-u-k\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-in-the-u-k\/\",\"name\":\"Banijay Launches New Scripted Venture in the U.K. - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-07-20T13:35:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-20T17:12:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-in-the-u-k\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-in-the-u-k\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-launches-new-scripted-venture-in-the-u-k\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Banijay Launches New Scripted Venture in the U.K.\"}]},{\"@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\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\",\"name\":\"Mansha Daswani\",\"description\":\"Mansha Daswani is the editor-in-chief and associate publisher of World Screen. 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