EXCLUSIVE: Betty TV and Triple Brew Media are not any extra – Goal Leisure is the brand new banner for Goal Media Group’s unscripted operations, Deadline has realized. Neale Simpson joins as Managing Director and can run Goal Leisure with Helen Cooke, who will likely be Artistic Director, having been joint CD at Betty.
Artistic Administrators David Harrison, Ed de Burgh and Becca Walker have left Goal amid job losses because the labels had been consolidated.
As Joint Artistic Director of Betty TV, Harrison was answerable for hit Discovery format Wheeler Sellers in addition to E4’s Fred’s Final Resort. Beneath de Burgh and Walker, Triple Brew produced Lingo for each ITV and CBS and BBC One’s Image Slam.
Deadline broke the information that the indies had been being folded into a brand new label in Could. The closure of Betty, lengthy thought of a fixture of the UK indie scene, brought about specific angst amongst its many former staff who took to social media to share tales of their time on the indie. Goal’s father or mother firm All3Media acquired Betty from its then co-parent in 2017.
Goal Leisure will home the Betty and Triple Brew programming together with The Dice, Lingo and Wheeler Sellers.
Incoming MD, Simpson, was at RDF for over a decade and most not too long ago Artistic Director of Thames’ Upstream label. Whereas there he labored on exhibits together with E4’s Large Celeb Detox and actuality format Battle Camp for Netflix.
“The creation of Goal Leisure is an formidable assertion of intent to develop and produce the subsequent technology of channel-defining codecs within the UK and internationally,” he stated. “I’m so excited to hitch with the brilliantly proficient workforce at OMG and might’t wait to get began.”
