{"id":8940,"date":"2018-02-01T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-worldwide-buys-majority-stake-sid-gentle-films\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:44:26","slug":"bbc-worldwide-buys-majority-stake-in-sid-gentle-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-worldwide-buys-majority-stake-in-sid-gentle-films\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Worldwide Buys Majority Stake in Sid Gentle Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Worldwide has purchased a 51 percent stake in the British drama specialist and feature film company Sid Gentle Films.<\/p>\n<p>Sid Gentle Films was founded by Sally Woodward Gentle, along with Lee Morris and Henrietta Colvin, in 2013. The company&#8217;s credits to date include\u00a0<em>The Durrells\u00a0<\/em>for ITV and Masterpiece,\u00a0<em>SS-GB<\/em> for the BBC, <em>Neil Gaiman\u2019s\u00a0Likely Stories<\/em>\u00a0for Sky and the upcoming\u00a0<em>Killing Eve<\/em>\u00a0for BBC America.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement includes an option for a phased increase in ownership by BBC Worldwide in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Woodward Gentle, the CEO of Sid Gentle Films, said:\u00a0\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more delighted to be joining forces with BBC Worldwide. Their respect for our independence\u00a0coupled with their extraordinary industry links and sales ability is really exciting.\u00a0Sid has built a reputation working with extraordinary talent and developing projects we believe in and it is very exciting to further our ambitions to create and deliver impactful drama. We have\u00a0enjoyed working with BBC Worldwide in the past so can\u2019t wait for this new phase in Sid\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen Jackson, BBC Worldwide\u2019s managing director of content, commented:\u00a0\u201cWe have\u00a0enjoyed working with Sally and her team immensely over the past three years\u00a0and this is a great opportunity to build on our\u00a0partnership.\u00a0Sid Gentle has already delivered several much-loved dramas and we are super excited by what we have seen\u00a0so far of their latest,\u00a0<em>Killing Eve<\/em>.\u00a0They represent perfectly the creative vibrancy that is British drama right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Worldwide has purchased a 51 percent stake in the British drama specialist and feature film company Sid Gentle Films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":8941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[128,401],"class_list":["post-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-worldwide","tag-sid-gentle-films","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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