{"id":15410,"date":"2020-11-24T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/woodcut-media-spark-tv-merge\/"},"modified":"2020-11-24T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:47:12","slug":"woodcut-media-spark-tv-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/woodcut-media-spark-tv-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodcut Media &#038; Spark TV Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woodcut Media has merged with Spark TV to launch Woodcut West, which will be dedicated to the development and production of natural-history and specialist-factual programming.<\/p>\n<p>Woodcut West will be based out of Bristol and be led by award-winning executive producer Paul Wooding. Wooding\u2019s credits include <em>T. Rex Autopsy<\/em>, <em>Blitz Street<\/em>, <em>Black Files Declassified<\/em>, <em>Hive Alive<\/em>, <em>Last War Heroes<\/em>, <em>Smash Lab<\/em> and <em>Wild Tube<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Woodcut Media, co-founded by Kate Beal, and Spark TV, founded by Paul Wooding, form part of the Anthology Group.<\/p>\n<p>Beal, co-founder and CEO of Woodcut Media, said: \u201cWe are proud to unveil this new partnership with Paul to create Woodcut West. Bristol is recognized worldwide as the U.K.\u2019s creative hub for natural history and wildlife documentaries and we have known and respected Paul\u2019s work for many years now; he breaks the mold when it comes to producing bold, innovative and immersive programming. This alliance will allow us to expand our mutual specialist factual horizons and branch out into new genres, which is a very exciting next stage in Woodcut\u2019s growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wooding, managing director of Woodcut West, said: \u201cWoodcut shares the same vision and work ethos as I do when it comes to factual production. In the lead up to this launch, we have been brainstorming numerous ideas, and have a number of projects in development that we will be announcing over the coming months. Our combination of editorial expertise and talent base will provide a broad and exciting range of great projects for the broadcasters we all love to work with worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hilary Strong, chairman of Woodcut Media and CEO of the Anthology Group, added: \u201cThe Anthology Group is delighted to announce this merger between its two factual production companies, bringing creative synergies and scale to both. Paul\u2019s impressive track record for bold and innovative production, combined with Woodcut\u2019s creativity, scale and unparalleled track record make for a formidable team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodcut Media has merged with Spark TV to launch Woodcut West, which will be dedicated to the development and production of natural-history and specialist-factual programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":15411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[5239,211,5240],"class_list":["post-15410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-spark-tv","tag-woodcut-media","tag-woodcut-west","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Woodcut Media &amp; 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