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Exclusive: Pamela Anderson is cooking up her latest television project.

The actor is to host Pamela’s Cooking With Love (w/t) for Food Network Canada as her home renovation series Pamela’s Garden of Eden has been renewed for a second season at HGTV Canada.

It comes as Anderson continues her book tour to promote Love, Pamela, which was released last month alongside Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story.

The two Canadian series, which are produced by Fireworks Media Group for Corus Studios.

Food series Pamela’s Cooking With Love is an eight-part series set to air on Food Network Canada in 2024.

She will work with a variety of influential chefs to develop plant-based menus, gather diverse ingredients, and prepare meals for her friends and family including a casual afternoon cocktail party in the garden, an intimate dinner with family, or breakfast following a night around the campfire.

Pamela’s Garden of Eden...

Prolific television producer Jesse Fawcett (“Big Timber”) has launched new outfit Fireworks Media Group with several production deals.

The company is producing new original series “Pamela Anderson’s Home Reno Project” (working title) for HGTV Canada, with “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson returning to her Canadian roots to rebuild the family home of her dreams. The series is executive produced by Brandon Lee, Fawcett and Fireworks’ president of Canada, Robert Hardy. Corus Studios will distribute the series internationally.

Fireworks Media Group has also secured an exclusive first-look scripted development deal with TikTok star Kris Collins, who has over 32 million followers and 1.4 billion likes on social media.

In addition, Fireworks is currently in production on second seasons of the real estate unscripted series “Selling the Big Easy” for HGTV in the U.S. as well as Corus Studios’ “Big Timber,” which revolves around logger and sawmill owner Kevin Wenstob and airs on...

Exclusive: Production outfit Eq Media Group has will produce unscripted series Hopwood’s Castle, based on actor Hopwood DePree’s journey from Hollywood to northern England to rescue his dilapidated 600-year-old ancestral home.

DePree discovered his descendants in England lived in a castle, Hopwood Hall Estate, while browsing his family ancestry online. This revelation compelled him to move overseas to save the building from certain ruin, with it having been abandoned for decades. Since then, organizations including Historic England, National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Architectural Heritage Fund have awarded funds to the project.

The actor initially toured a one-hour stand-up comedy show on the topic in 2019, culminating at the Edinburgh Fringe, before penning a novel on the subject which, as Deadline revealed, William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins USA, landed with a six-figure advance.

“When we heard Hopwood’s incredible story we immediately knew it would make an amazing ongoing television series.

Lisa Duff.

Former Screen Australia senior investment development manager Lisa Duff has joined the Australian operation of the Eq Media Group.

Duff started today as head of production – scripted, working alongside VP scripted Michelle Hardy.

“I’m looking forward to being involved with the making of quality Australian drama and encouraging internationals to choose Australia as their production location of choice,” said Duff, who departed Screen Australia in June after more than five years with the agency.

Eq Media Group CEO Greg Quail and president Jesse Fawcett re-branded their trans-national production company Essential Media and Entertainment after buying the Essential companies in March from the collapsed Kew Media Group.

As If reported, Eq Media, Beyond Production, Renegade Entertainment and AGC Television are teaming up for Troppo, an Australian crime drama series which Yolanda Ramke (Cargo) adapted from Candice Fox’s novel Crimson Lake.

Thomas Jane (Amazon’s The Expanse) will...

Greg Quail and Jesse Fawcett.

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 their slate of unscripted and scripted content.

With development and production hubs in Los Angeles, Sydney, Dallas, Vancouver and Auckland, Eq Media Group has a core staff of 40, with a current run-of-show employee count of 70.

Quail and Fawcett bought the Essential companies in March from the collapsed Kew Media Group.

President and executive producer Fawcett said: “We have focused on staff retention and are proud to say we haven’t lost any employees. Our team’s focus on content development has now tripled our production slate with further North American show announcements in the pipeline.”

CEO and executive producer Quail said the name Eq was chosen to signify Emotional Quotient or Emotional Intelligence, the elements which they say drive the best storytelling.

‘Outback Lockdown’.

When Essential Media’s Brendan Dahill heard British chef Calem O’Grady and his partner, Australian stunt woman and survival expert Ky Furneaux, were planning to self-isolate in the Outback, all three seized on the idea of an observational documentary.

Acting fast, Essential’s head of factual David Alrich and Dop Max Corkindale spent 22 days filming the couple who are living in an old stone hut on a 46,000-acre sheep farm in South Australia owned by Ky’s cousin.

They have to forage for food, including hunting ducks and goats for dinner, all served in Cordon Bleu style by O’Grady.

The result is Outback Lockdown, a 3 x 60′ series which will be sold worldwide by London-based Abacus Media Rights (Amr), which was launched last month by Jonathan Ford, the former executive VP of sales at Kew Media Distribution.

Essential’s Gm for Australia and New Zealand, Dahill hired...

Mikael Borglund.

Beyond International has made a deal to acquire the UK-based factual distributor Tcb Media Rights from the receivers of the failed Kew Media Group.

Founded in 2012 by Paul Heaney, Tcb’s portfolio includes Cjz’s Go Back To Where You Came From, Media Stockade’s Debi Marshall Investigates: Frozen Lies and international docs Extreme Ice Machines, Hitler’s Supercars and Egypt’s Unexplained Mysteries.

Receivers Fti Consulting Canada have been looking for buyers of Kew Media’s assets since the Toronto-based media company collapsed in February.

Last month Essential Media Group (Emg) CEO Greg Quail and North American president Jesse Fawcett purchased the Essential companies from the receivers.

Beyond said the acquisition would be funded by existing cash and debt facilities and completed through its Ireland-based subsidiary Beyond Entertainment Limited.

The price was not disclosed but Beyond told investors the sum is less than 10 per cent of its...

Essential Media Group, the Australia and La-based producer behind shows including Texas Flip N Move, has completed a management buyout from collapsed production empire Kew Media Group.

Essential Media CEO Greg Quail and president Jesse Fawcett have acquired 100% of the company, while their post-house partner Dave Cole will also hold a stake. Fawcett has also acquired Big Timber Media from Kew in a separate transaction.

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Quail said: “I am gutted by the collapse of Kew, they’re good people and there is nothing to celebrate here, but we will take this moment to buy back, consolidate our resources and rebuild. With its solid production and development slate,...

Greg Quail.

Essential Media Group (Emg) CEO Greg Quail and North American president Jesse Fawcett have purchased the Essential companies from the collapsed Kew Media Group.

The deal gives Quail and Fawcett full control of the group’s Us, Australian and New Zealand operations while Dave Cole, managing director of post house Two Dogs.TV, regains a minority stake.

“It’s been a very distracting time. We’re looking forward to getting back to business and making TV shows,” Quail told If today.

Emg was formed by the merger of Australia’s Essential Media and Entertainment, Fawcett’s La- based 11 Television, Quail Entertainment Us and the North American joint venture Essential Quail Television (Eqtv).

Jesse Fawcett.

Canada’s Kew Media bought Emg in 2018 for $32.8 million, $20 million in cash and the balance in shares.

The Toronto-based media conglomerate collapsed in February and Fti Consulting Canada was appointed to sell its assets to repay creditors.

Chris Hilton.

Essential Media co-founder and CEO Chris Hilton has quit following a restructure and cost cutting program at the group’s Australian and New Zealand business.

Greg Quail, formerly the firm’s chief content officer/executive producer, has replaced Hilton as CEO in charge of operations spanning North America and Australasia.

There have been six redundancies in the Sydney office including Sadhana Jethanandani, head of production, Australia/ Nz, head of marketing Denise Anderson, two legal and two admin staff.

Brendan Dahill, who joined as general manager for Australia/Nz last October continues in that post. So do head of non-scripted David Alrich, VP scripted Michelle Hardy and Sam Griffin, who joined recently as head of documentaries and specialist factual.

The restructure was flagged last week by the group’s Canadian parent Kew Media, which blamed the under-performance of Essential’s Australian business for an overall 5.3 per cent drop in...

A&e Network has ordered a live stunt series titled “The Impossible Live.”

The series, which hails from Kew Media Group’s Essential Media Group, will consist of five two-hour episodes featuring daredevils performing death-defying stunts such as parachute-less jump from a plane onto a speeding train, a motorcycle jump off a cliff in which the daredevil must drop the bike and grab on to the skids of a passing helicopter before the motorcycle plummets to the ground below, and the highest wire walk ever attempted from one hot air balloon to another.

In addition, A&e and Essential have partnered with daredevil Bello Nock and his company Opportunity Nocks, Inc. to create “Volcano Walk Live,” a live special showcasing a world record high-wire walk over an active volcano.

“‘The Impossible Live’ will take viewers on a wild ride as they witness, in real time, the world’s greatest daredevils risking life...

A&e Networks has ordered “The Impossible Live,” a stunt series that features people with a death wish attempting ridiculous feats, like jumping out of a plane onto a speeding train without a parachute.

Hailing from Essential Media Group, “The Impossible Live” (working title) will feature “the world’s greatest daredevils attempting the most death-defying stunts ever seen on live television; including a parachute-less jump from a plane onto a speeding train, a motorcycle jump off a cliff in which the daredevil must drop the bike and grab on to the skids of a passing helicopter before the motorcycle plummets to the ground below; and the highest wire walk ever attempted from one hot air balloon to another,” according to A&e. Five two-hour episodes are planned.

The series will begin pre-production this fall.

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A&e Network and Essential Media Group continue to push the boundaries in the genre of high-stakes stunts on live TV with new series The Impossible Live (working title). A&e has ordered five two-hour episodes of the series, which they describe as the most ambitious live stunt series ever attempted.

A&e and Essential have also been partnering with daredevil Bello Nock and his company Opportunity Nocks, Inc. on previously announced Volcano Walk Live (working title), a live special showcasing the longest, most complicated and dangerous stunt ever attempted – a world record high-wire walk over an active volcano. The special, which had been in development, has gotten an official green light.

“The Impossible Live will take viewers on a wild ride as they witness, in real time, the world’s greatest daredevils risking life and limb to pull off stunts worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster film,...

Essential 11 Television is producing a pilot for a home renovation series in Los Angeles for the Us network Hgtv while three other shows are premiering in the Us this month.

Three Dads and A House features La.s Re-Inhabit, a boutique firm which specialises in restoring dilapidated structures while retaining their original character.

Based in La and Toronto, Essential 11 is a factual entertainment co-venture between Essential Media and Entertainment, Canada.s 11 Television and Primitive Entertainment.

Launching this week on the Diy Network are BackFlip, a 4-part series in which restoration expert Brett Waterman transforms a poorly renovated Palm Springs villa into a historically-accurate dream home; and Texas Flip .n Move, a nine-part series about three family businesses in Fort Worth which compete against each other to locate, move, renovate and sell homes for the highest price.

Fool.s Gold, an eight-part docu-comedy that debuted on Discovery Canada, will have its...

An Australian production company has partnered with a north American counter-part that covers both USA and Canada.

The pairing of Sydney-based Essential Media and Entertainment with La and Toronto-based 11 Television aims to widen the footprint across a large portion of the English speaking television landscape.

The new company will become Essential 11 Media Group and be headed up by CEO Chris Hilton, CEO and founding partner of Essential Media and Entertainment.

Hilton said: “There are great synergies to be had in developing hit formats across the group with simultaneous access to broadcasters in three English speaking territories. This is why we’ve invested in this partnership with 11 Television, which is helmed by industry leaders and veteran executive producers Kevin Healey and Jesse Fawcett.”

Healey is chief creative officer and Ep of 11 Television with Fawcett chief operating officer and Ep.

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Australia's Essential Media and Entertainment and Us/Canadian production company 11 Television have joined forces to launch Essential 11 Media Group.

11 Television, which has opened offices in Los Angeles and Toronto to focus exclusively on factual entertainment formats, has the rights to all of Essential's factual formats and programs in North America while Essential will continue to produce factual, drama and kids content under its existing banner, as well as market its own drama shows in the Us.

The startup business, comprised of Essential boss Chris Hilton and 11 Television's veteran executive producers Kevin Healey and Jesse Fawcett, will provide a new avenue for Essential in the North American market.

"It's very difficult to get original formats up in Australia with the commercial channels or pay-tv and so one way around that is to create them in North America and make them hits over there and then bring them back," Essential's Chris Hilton said.