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News UK Expands Original IP Ambitions With 14 Projects In Development Based On Its Archive
Rupert Murdoch's News UK has expanded its article IP beyond Fox with 14 projects in development and Channel 4's 'Poison' airing tonight.
When Halliwell joined News UK last year, he said a “grown up conversation between us and the execs at Fox” found that the pair “should formalize what we are doing more between businesses, using the well of IP coming out of this building and the massive studio operation in L.A.” “We quickly realized that we don’t need to limit to a single genre and the other obvious realization was that the content coming out this building is vast, so what happens when Fox doesn’t want to take something forward?,” explained Halliwell. Halliwell pointed out that News UK already has three business units producing original shows ranging from podcasts to YouTube series, including a recent Madeleine McCann doc in partnership with ITN and Channel 4.
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