BBC Studios Takes Full Control Of ‘Killing Eve’ Producer Sid Gentle Films & Relocates Top Scripted Exec Mark Linsey To LA — Mipcom Cannes
deadline.comBBC Studios has taken full control of Killing Eve producer Sid Gentle Films. On day one of Mipcom, the BBC’s commercial production-distribution arm already owned 51% of the business following a 2018 deal and has now snapped up the remaining shares.
Sid Gentle is best known for BBC America’s thriller drama Killing Eve, but also is also behind long-running ITV drama The Durrells, SS-GB for BBC One and UKTV and AMC’s Ragdoll among others, and is currently in post-production on Rain Dogs, which Cash Carraway and Daisy May Cooper wrote for the BBC and HBO and Emma Moran’s Disney+ comedy Extraordinary.
It was founded in 2013 by Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris and Henrietta Colvin. BBC Studios already wholly owns Lookout Point (Gentleman Jack, Happy Valley), Clerkenwell Films (Somewhere Boy, The End of the F***ing World), and House Productions (Sherwood, Brexit: An Uncivil War) and is the controlling shareholder in Baby Cow (Chivalry, The Witchfinder).
It also took the remaining shares in Wilderness producer Firebird Pictures earlier this month, as it deepens its investment in premium scripted companies.
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