BBC Studios has taken a 25% minority stake in former Channel 4 Deputy Head of Programmes Kelly Webb-Lamb’s Mothership Productions.
Webb-Lamb arrange the corporate earlier this month together with former Channel 4 colleagues Charlotte Desai and Gilly Greenslade and it joins a roster of BBC Studios-backed non-scripted indies that features Expectation and Curve Media, together with quite a few scripted producers.
The strategic partnership will see BBC Studios put money into Mothership’s slate of world codecs and “concepts of scale” throughout the non-scripted genres. Mothership has already stated it has a number of tasks in superior growth whereas the workforce is at the moment pitching to broadcaster and SVoD commissioners.
Webb-Lamb is a well-known British TV determine having been Chief Content material Officer Ian Katz’s deputy at Channel 4 for a number of years, throughout which period she oversaw the likes of The Circle and The Lateish Present with Mo Gilligan. She used to Run Banijay-backed Shine and beforehand labored for the BBC.
Ralph Lee, BBC Studios Productions’ CEO, described her as a “sought-after inventive chief who has assembled a workforce round her that has a formidable pedigree in hit reveals and codecs in a extremely aggressive area.”
“It’s a true testomony to their expertise and potential that inside solely a brief time frame, Mothership has developed a slate that’s brimming with concepts that we consider will enchantment to each UK and worldwide broadcasters and platforms,” he added.
