Seasoned executive producers and format creators Victoria Ashbourne and Stuart Shawcross have launched a new production company called Hello Dolly.<\/p>\n
Hello Dolly will create and produce original entertainment formats for the U.K. and international market.<\/p>\n
Ashbourne and Shawcross have collaborated on such shows as The National Lottery: Win Your Wishlist<\/em>, 5 minutes to a Fortune<\/em> and Benchmark<\/em>. Ashbourne founded Victory Television, where she served as managing director. Shawcross previously was the director of entertainment at Youngest Media and creative director of Victory Television.<\/p>\n Ashbourne, chief executive of Hello Dolly, remarked: \u201cAfter taking time out to have a baby, the time is right to jump back in and create new, exhilarating entertainment formats. Stuart and I make a brilliant team and we are hugely enjoying the creative freedom of being totally independent.<\/p>\n \u201cThe response I\u2019ve received from commissioners has been overwhelming. It\u2019s an incredibly exciting time to be coming back into the world of entertainment; it\u2019s having a real resurgence and the global market has increased with so many SVOD platforms embracing non-scripted formats. We\u2019ve already had interest from investors and distributors, but we\u2019re in no immediate rush to partner up.\u201d<\/p>\n Shawcross, Hello Dolly’s chief creative officer, added: \u201cVictoria and I have a strong track record of creating and producing first-class entertainment formats and we\u2019ll continue to do that, both for the U.K. and international market.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a format creator, I love nothing more than starting with a blank piece of paper and finding an idea that truly excites me\u2014the sort of idea that keeps me up at night thinking about the endless possibilities of where we could take it. I think we\u2019ve got some of the best formats we\u2019ve ever created in development right now and we\u2019ve already teamed up with several producers globally on some of these ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seasoned executive producers and format creators Victoria Ashbourne and Stuart Shawcross have launched a new production company called Hello Dolly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":5931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1183,1184,1185],"class_list":["post-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-hello-dolly","tag-stuart-shawcross","tag-victoria-ashbourne","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n