{"id":9929,"date":"2020-02-03T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/sky-studios-inks-first-look-deal-romesh-ranganathans-ranga-bee\/"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:16:28","slug":"sky-studios-inks-first-look-deal-with-romesh-ranganathans-ranga-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2020\/02\/03\/sky-studios-inks-first-look-deal-with-romesh-ranganathans-ranga-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Studios Inks First-Look Deal with Romesh Ranganathan’s Ranga Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky Studios has signed a first-look script deal with the award-winning comedy and entertainment indie Ranga Bee, founded by comedian Romesh Ranganathan and exec producer and director Benjamin Green.<\/p>\n

Ranga Bee will work directly with Sky Studios to develop new projects for Sky\u2019s platforms across Europe and beyond. Co-developed projects will be exec produced by Jon Mountague, director of comedy at Sky Studios. The development funding will also enable Ranga Bee to attract talent to work on the committed projects for Sky Studios. The co-developed projects will be distributed by NBCUniversal Global Distribution on behalf of Sky Studios.<\/p>\n

Ranga Bee and Sky have already partnered on two successful seasons of The Reluctant Landlord<\/em>, a semi-autobiographical sitcom in which Ranganathan inherits a pub he doesn\u2019t really want, and Romesh Presents<\/em>, a series of ten shorts for new and emerging comedy talent on Sky One.<\/p>\n

Gary Davey, CEO of Sky Studios, said: \u201cRomesh has been entertaining Sky customers for years with his unique style of humor and I couldn\u2019t be more excited about this new deal with Romesh, Ben and the whole Ranga Bee team. The Reluctant Landlord<\/em> is a brilliant show and I look forward to seeing what new scripted comedies we can produce together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ranganathan and Green said: \u201cWe set up Ranga Bee to make great comedy shows with both new and established talent and we\u2019re thrilled to be partnering with Sky Studios to help further that ambition. We look forward to making innovative and genuinely funny comedy and comedy-dramas together. This is also a great opportunity for Romesh to pretend to support other talent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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