EXCLUSIVE: All3Media’s Goal Media Group (OMG) has expanded by launching an unscripted label with Viacom Worldwide Studios exec Oliver Wright.
We’ve realized Wright’s at the moment unnamed manufacturing home will deal with creating and producing factual sequence and documentaries.
The corporate launches with a slate equivalent to Channel 5’s upcoming house doc sequence Tim Peake: Secrets and techniques of Our Universe — the Paramount-owned community’s newest try to push into high-end factual with well-known expertise.
It’ll sit inside OMG, which additionally homes 141 Productions, Betty, Canard, Goal Fiction, OMG Scotland, Purple, Tannadice Photos, Triple Brew Media and L.A.-based OMG America.
Wright was among the many employees whose roles had been impacted by Paramount International’s determination to shut the unscripted win of Viacom Worldwide Studios (VIS) UK because it switches worldwide manufacturing focus to high-end scripted, as we completely revealed final month.
“I’m thrilled to be organising my very own label underneath the distinctive and extremely profitable banner of OMG, the place I’ll benefit from the improbable assist essential to proceed creating sturdy and high-rating factual content material,” mentioned Wright.
Wright spent greater than 5 years at VIS UK as Head of Factual and Options. There his credit included Nick Knowles Into the Grand Canyon; three seasons of The Secrets and techniques of Royal Palaces; Nick Knowles’ Large Home Clearout; ABBA documentaries together with The Lacking 40 Years; Diana: In Her Personal Phrases; Broadmoor: Excessive Safety & Serial Killers; TK Maxx: How Do they Do it, and three seasons of The Fantastic World of Chocolate.
Additional again, he was an government producer at Endemol Shine and labored as Head of Well-liked Factual at The Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom producer Arrow Media.
“Ollie is a prolific producer with distinctive expertise relationships – we’re delighted he’s becoming a member of OMG and stay up for welcoming his infectious vitality to the group,” mentioned OMG CEO Layla Smith.
