{"id":13297,"date":"2019-09-13T02:37:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T06:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/eone-acquires-blackfin\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:24:29","slug":"eone-acquires-blackfin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/eone-acquires-blackfin\/","title":{"rendered":"eOne Acquires Blackfin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment One (eOne) has purchased the U.S.-based producer Blackfin, which specializes in nonfiction content.<\/p>\n<p>Blackfin&#8217;s slate includes <em>Finding Escobar\u2019s Millions<\/em>, <em>I Am Homicide<\/em>, <em>Homicide City<\/em>, <em>Primal Instinct\u00a0<\/em>and <em>Bad Henry<\/em>. The company will continue producing docs, true crime, natural history and factual content under eOne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our global unscripted television business has rapidly expanded, we are eager to bring Geno\u2019s entrepreneurial hustle to the eOne team. I am excited to have Geno\u2019s focus, drive and business acumen as part of our arsenal to continue building the future of eOne\u2019s unscripted slate,\u201d said eOne\u2019s Tara Long, president of global unscripted television. \u201cWe are extremely impressed by the company and team Geno built so early into his career and we could not be more thrilled to have Blackfin on board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlackfin\u2019s rapid growth called for a strategic partner to provide infrastructure and take the company to new heights; eOne could not be a better fit. There is a prolific story unfolding at the studio that Tara has spent the past nine years driving and I am excited to be a part of it,\u201d added Blackfin&#8217;s founder and CEO, Geno McDermott, who will report to Long and serve as eOne\u2019s president of U.S. alternative programming, unscripted television. \u201cI respect and admire Tara\u2019s grit and tenacity and look forward to collaborating with her as we grow the business together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment One (eOne) has purchased the U.S.-based producer Blackfin, which specializes in nonfiction content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":13298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1401,202,645],"class_list":["post-13297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-blackfin","tag-entertainment-one","tag-eone","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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