BBC Studios Partners With ‘Repair Shop’ Star Jay Blades & Hungry BearBBC Studios has struck a first-look development deal with Hungry Jay Media, the JV between Repair Shop breakout Jay Blades and Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel producer Hungry Bear.
The one-year deal will give BBC Studios priority access to Hungry Jay’s slate, focusing on factual entertainment formats for the UK market that can travel.
Hungry Jay launched in 2020 and has since been behind BBC One doc Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51 and Paramount-owned Channel 5’s Jay Blades: There’s No Place Like Home.
Blades broke out helming BBC One’s hugely-popular The Repair Shop, which started life as a small daytime format before graduating to primetime and amassing millions of viewers each week.
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