EXCLUSIVE: The co-creator of Netflix smash Million Greenback Secret and the BBC’s Pointless is heading to Fremantle to supervise a brand new international leisure label.
Nick Mather is exiting Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse to run Fremantle International Originals, which can act as a “standalone artistic hub devoted to the creation of authentic unscripted codecs,” based on the Bought Expertise and Too Scorching to Deal with super-indie.
Reporting to Fremantle UK boss Amelia Brown, EVP Mather will work on authentic returnable codecs that may be produced by different Fremantle labels such because the recently-merged TalkbackThames.
Mather joins from transatlantic studio Wheelhouse, the place he has spent the previous two-and-a-half years as EVP, co-creating unscripted codecs reminiscent of Million Greenback Secret (Netflix), Bought to Get Out (Hulu/Disney), Final Chunk Resort (Meals Community) and Movie star Puzzling (Channel 5).
In earlier roles at UK labels Possessed and Exceptional, he has co-created UK leisure hits Pointless, Sitting on a Fortune and Petrified of the Darkish.
Brown mentioned: “To mix the artistic format management of Nick with the manufacturing energy of Fremantle’s labels and corporations is extremely thrilling. It locations format creation proper on the coronary heart of every thing we do at Fremantle and along with his wealth of expertise throughout the UK, U.S. and worldwide markets, Nick is completely positioned to drive daring new concepts with international potential.”
Mather added: “Fremantle International Originals is constructed on a easy thought; in case you match motivated, forward-thinking creatives with Fremantle’s towering worldwide infrastructure, you create a uniquely thrilling area. Someplace the place artistic ambition is matched by a dedication to make large, daring concepts occur.”
With Mather’s rent, Fremantle mentioned it needs to “diversify its IP pipeline and speed up the event of returnable codecs.”
Final yr, storied UK labels Talkback and Thames, which make Britain’s Bought Expertise, Too Scorching to Deal with and Blankety Clean, have been merged by Fremantle for the third time beneath Charlie Irwin. Fremantle additionally owns The Apprentice producer Bare.
