First Disabled-Led Company Joins Channel 4 Indie Growth Fund; C4/Netflix Cooking Format; Sky Strikes Sport Deal – UK Briefs
deadline.comFirst Disabled-Led Company Joins Channel 4 Indie Growth FundChannel 4 has invested in Rockerdale Studios, the first disabled-led company to join its burgeoning Indie Growth Fund.
Rockerdale becomes the 17th producer to join the Fund, for which Channel 4 takes small minority stakes in producers and nurtures them, and the ninth over the past two years including David Olusoga’s Uplands TV and Walter Iuzzolino’s Eagle Eye.
Rockerdale is the first to be run by a person with a disability, CEO Stu Richards. The company has produced Channel 4’s Mission: Accessible, Comedy Central’s Bobby and Harriet Get Married and upcoming All 4 show Rosie Jones’ Dine Hard.
Indie Growth Fund Head Caroline Murphy lauded Richards and COO Michelle Singer as an “impressive team both creatively and in terms of ambition.” Channel 4 has placed more focus on disability representation over the past months, following Help creator Jack Thorne’s blistering August MacTaggart address in which he blasted the sector for “totally and utterly failing disabled people.”Channel 4 & Netflix Serve Up Cooking FormatIn other Channel 4 news, the Gogglebox network has partnered with Netflix on a cooking format set in legendary London hotel The Langham.
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