Canada’s Kew Media Group has acquired Essential Quail Media, a joint venture between Essential Media and Entertainment and Quail Television, for an initial purchase price of $32.8 million, comprising $20 million in cash and $12.8 million in shares.
When Sam Neill set out to retrace Captain James Cook’s three voyages to the Pacific for a six-part Foxtel documentary, he had sketchy ideas about the 18th Century explorer and his exploits.
Greg Quail and Jesse Fawcett have re-branded their trans-national production company Essential Media and Entertainment as the EQ Media Group and are boosting the slate of unscripted and scripted content.
Sweetshop & Green has announced producer and writer Rachael Turk as its new head of scripted in what is a newly created role.