Universal Studio Group Partners With ‘Cooking With The Stars’ Producer South Shore, Talks Global Economic Crisis & “Talent Over Territory”
deadline.comTwo of Universal Studio Group’s TV divisions have struck a development deal with South Shore, the Cooking with the Stars producer run by former Twofour bosses Melanie Leach and Andrew Mackenzie.
The deal was unveiled at Content London this afternoon and will see South Shore co-develop and co-produce a minimum of three unscripted projects of scale for the international market with Universal Television Alternative Studio (UTAS) and Universal International Studios (UIS).
The focus will be on social experiments, reality and competition formats. South Shore will have access to Universal’s transatlantic resources including talent and IP as the pair seek a non-scripted pipeline. “We’ve enjoyed developing recent projects with the UTAS & UIS teams and we’re thrilled to be working on these three projects with them,” said Leach and Mackenzie.
The pair, who ran Twofour for several years, launched ITV Studios-backed South Shore in 2019 and the company has since produced the likes of BBC One’s Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams, ITV’s Cooking with the Stars and Channel 4 property format Selling Super Prime.
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