EXCLUSIVE: Richard Bacon‘s Sure Sure Media has headed on a senior hiring spree, bringing in former The X Issue showrunner Mark Sidaway and Hidden Mild manufacturing boss Lydia Arding.
The indie launched six months in the past, backed by an eclectic combine together with Chernobyl producer Sister, Buddies star Courtney Cox, French manufacturing home Satisfaction and the lead singer of Snow Patrol. It goals to create TV reveals and podcasts and plans to develop proprietary {hardware} and software program to permit viewers to work together with codecs on a number of units.
Sidaway turns into Head of Leisure and Arding takes on the Director of Manufacturing submit. Working intently with Bacon, Sidaway will construct out the corporate’s leisure division, whereas Arding will oversee all monetary and operational exercise for the enterprise and drive technique throughout the manufacturing slate.
Sidaway is a storied unscripted vet who most lately showran The Coronation Live performance and the BBC’s Platinum Get together on the Palace in 2021. He held the highest manufacturing job on ITV’s The X Issue for quite a lot of years, shepherding the juggernaut by the earlier decade, working intently with creator Simon Cowell.
Arding joins from Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s Hidden mild, the place she labored throughout reveals for Apple TV+ and Channel 4. Previous to that she was Head of Factual Manufacturing at Starstruck producer-agency Avalon, managing all output throughout TV and audio.
The senior hires lay down a marker for the previous Blue Peter and That is My Home creator Bacon’s Sure Sure. Sister, the producer behind Chernobyl and Giri/Haji, has taken a “important stake” within the enterprise, whereas Satisfaction will even have a “important” stake and has signed an settlement with Bacon to co-develop codecs for native and world consumers, each of which was revealed at launch in April.
“Mark is a large expertise and has huge expertise throughout the leisure world – particularly large-scale productions and expertise reveals – that are an enormous space for us,” stated Bacon. “I’m delighted to work so intently with him throughout our many initiatives. Equally, Lydia brings an incredible mixture of manufacturing expertise and strategic considering to our tv and tech concepts.”
