Exclusive: When most of the dust settled on the Covid-impacted 2020 broadcast pilot season, indie Lionsgate TV ended up with three new series orders — for Home Economics, which got off to a promising start at ABC, This Country at Fox and Ghosts at CBS — on par with the major, vertically integrated studios and making for a perfect 3-for-3 pilot-to-series conversion ratio.
The recent foray into broadcast is one of several strategic shifts for Lionsgate as it is adjusting to its dual role as the primary studio of a premium network (corporate sibling Starz) and a third-party supplier to other networks and platforms. They also include a move to a more decentralized “pod” model relying on production partnerships with prolific, self-sufficient showrunners and companies, including Courtney Kemp, who is behind Starz’s Power franchise and Dirty Thirty in the works at HBO, as well as majority-owned 3 Arts Entertainment, BBC Studios, the Tannenbaum Co.
The recent foray into broadcast is one of several strategic shifts for Lionsgate as it is adjusting to its dual role as the primary studio of a premium network (corporate sibling Starz) and a third-party supplier to other networks and platforms. They also include a move to a more decentralized “pod” model relying on production partnerships with prolific, self-sufficient showrunners and companies, including Courtney Kemp, who is behind Starz’s Power franchise and Dirty Thirty in the works at HBO, as well as majority-owned 3 Arts Entertainment, BBC Studios, the Tannenbaum Co.
- 4/23/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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