TVFORMATS
First Love & Phone Dater Land in New Markets
First Love as well as a pair of licensing deals for the dating format
Phone Dater.
First Love has been licensed to the Brazilian broadcaster Globo to feature as part of the long-running weekly news series
Fantástico. The four-part series tells the stories of people who are curious to find out how life panned out for their first great love. These long-lost loves are reunited and come face to face after years apart. Adapted from a Motive Television production,
First Love is set to be aired in 2021.
BBC Studios inked a deal with the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK to license the format for
BBC Studios brokers format deals; bolsters its management team BBC Studios Productions’ factual chief Tom McDonald has cemented his leadership team with the appointment of Nicola Pinn as director of production and ICM Partners’ Ian Moffitt to the new role of director . April 15, 2021
BBC Studios Productions’ factual chief Tom McDonald has cemented his leadership team with the appointment of Nicola Pinn as director of production and ICM Partners’ Ian Moffitt to the new role of director of commercial and business development.
Pinn will be responsible for production management and serve as a key strategic voice across the studio’s three factual production units – natural history, science and documentary.
BBCS adds to top factual leadership
BBC Studios Productions factual chief Tom McDonald has finalised his leadership team by appointing a director of production and a director of commercial and business development.
Nicola Pinn
Nicola Pinn, previously head of production at BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit, has been promoted to director of production.
Pinn will be responsible for production management as well as being a key strategic voice across the three factual production units – the Natural History Unit, the Science Unit and the Documentary Unit. She has worked in senior factual programming at the BBC for the past 15 years.
Ian Moffitt, meanwhile, has been named director of commercial and business development, joining from the London arm of LA-based talent agency ICM Partners. Moffitt has been an agent representing UK and European production companies and documentary directors at ICM for the past four years.