BBC Studios Partners With Mercury On Music FormatsBBC Studios has struck a development deal with Universal Music Group’s Mercury Studios to create a pipeline of music-driven shows.
The partnership will see BBC Studios’ recently-restructured Documentary Unit work with Mercury on formats, series and feature docs within four main categories: social history, social purpose, specialist factual and factual entertainment.
The pair will handle distribution of the projects on a case-by-case basis. Mercury launched last year after subsuming Universal’s former entertainment arm Eagle Rock Entertainment and the outfit is led by former BBC Children’s boss Alice Webb (pictured).
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