EXCLUSIVE: Betty TV and Triple Brew Media aren’t any extra – Goal Leisure is the brand new banner for Goal Media Group’s unscripted operations, Deadline has discovered. Neale Simpson joins as Managing Director and can run Goal Leisure with Helen Cooke, who will probably be Inventive Director, having been joint CD at Betty.
Inventive Administrators David Harrison, Ed de Burgh and Becca Walker have left Goal amid job losses because the labels had been consolidated.
As Joint Inventive Director of Betty TV, Harrison was accountable 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 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-about a fixture of the UK indie scene, triggered explicit angst amongst its many former staff who took to social media to share tales of their time on the indie. Goal’s mother or father firm All3Media acquired Betty from its then co-parent, Discovery, in 2017.
Goal Leisure will home 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 Inventive Director of Thames’ Upstream label. Whereas there he created reveals together with E4’s Massive 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 mentioned. “I’m so excited to hitch with the brilliantly gifted staff at OMG and might’t wait to get began.”
Layla Smith, CEO of Goal Media Group added: “I’ve lengthy been an admirer of Neale’s artistic power and think about OMG fortunate to welcome him to the enterprise, we’re so excited to start a brand new chapter with Neale and Helen on the helm of Goal Leisure. I want to thank Becca, Ed and Dave for his or her improbable contribution to the corporate, we want them each success sooner or later.”
