Brock Media Enters Podcast Game; Paramount+ Partners With Virgin In UK; Lesley Land Scholarship Launched – Global Briefs
deadline.comBrock Media Pushes Into Podcasts Animals producer Sarah Brocklehurst’s Brock Media has moved into the podcast space with a genre-defying anthology series.
Never Told features eight stories that span teenage abortion, Parisian hook-ups, musical odysseys, fantasy friendships, yoga poses, loss, grief, rage and a night of strange encounters.
Stories will be told by the likes of actor Harry Trevaldwyn, Vice Media Editor in Chief Zing Tsjeng, and Caleb Azumah Nelson and Emma Jane Unsworth, whose books Small Worlds and After the Storm are being turned into TV shows by Brock.
The indie, which has a partnership deal with BBC Studios, was set up last year by Animals producer Brocklehurst and is also making The Outrun, Nora Fingscheidt’s adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir starring Saoirse Ronan. “As a company we are committed to exceptional storytelling in all its forms and I’m so excited that we’re powering into the audio space,” said Brocklehurst, who will EP Never Told, which launches next month. Paramount+ Partners With Virgin In UK Paramount+ has become available on Virgin TV in the UK.
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