{"id":20862,"date":"2024-02-07T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:44:19","slug":"bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Studios Inks Development Deal with Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Studios has signed an exclusive three-year distribution deal with Forest, led by Jeremy Lee and Mobeen Azhar, to support the indie\u2019s growth ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, BBC Studios will have the first look at any content produced by Forest during the three-year term. Forest, which was founded four years ago, previously produced <em>The Trouble with Kanye<\/em>,<em> The Battle for Britney<\/em>, <em>Santa Claus the Serial Killer<\/em> and <em>Streets of Gold: Mumbai<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Forest Sounds, the audio division of Forest, is an award-winning podcast production company that has produced <em>Hometown<\/em>,<em> The Kanye Story<\/em> and <em>Ashley vs WWE<\/em> for Audible.<\/p>\n<p>Forest also operates a tree planting and maintenance initiative working with local partners to plant trees on behalf of their employees both past and present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to welcome Forest to BBC Studios in this significant partnership,\u201d said Kate Ward, managing director of factual productions at BBC Studios. \u201cWe have long been admirers of their fearless, impactful and contemporary documentaries. Forest\u2019s work and ambition represents a new wave of exciting factual television. We are looking forward to bringing their work to audiences around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee, creative director and co-founder of Forest, commented, \u201cBBC Studios feel like the obvious partner to help us deliver the next wave of Forest projects to a worldwide audience. We\u2019re excited to see what we can achieve together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Studios has signed an exclusive three-year distribution deal with Forest, led by Jeremy Lee and Mobeen Azhar, to support the indie\u2019s growth ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":20863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1494,9036,9037,8603,9038],"class_list":["post-20862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-studios","tag-forest","tag-jeremy-lee","tag-kate-ward","tag-mobeen-azhar","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBC Studios Inks Development Deal with Forest - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC Studios Inks Development Deal with Forest - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BBC Studios has signed an exclusive three-year distribution deal with Forest, led by Jeremy Lee and Mobeen Azhar, to support the indie\u2019s growth ambitions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-07T15:44:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-07T15:44:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/Forest-TheTroublewithKanye-0224.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest\/\",\"name\":\"BBC Studios Inks Development Deal with Forest - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-07T15:44:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-07T15:44:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-inks-development-deal-with-forest\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC Studios Inks Development Deal with Forest\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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