Topic: NEW Partnership: New Media Collective

[georgiapeach]

Interesting News!!

<<Race to the Center of the Earth is produced by New Media Collective from a format by Plum Pictures for National Geographic. For New Media Collective, executive producers are Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri. For National Geographic, Matt Renner is executive producer and vice president, original programming and production, and Geoff Daniels is executive vice president of global unscripted entertainment.

About New Media Collective

New Media Collective is a newly launched, full-service production company that develops and produces programming for the worldwide marketplace. Founded in 2019, New Media Collective is a partnership between television producers Elise Doganieri, Bertram van Munster, Mark Dziak and Doug Vargas. NMC will capitalize on the partners’ decades of collective experience in worldwide production through its partnerships with foreign production companies. Doganieri and van Munster have earned 15 Primetime Emmy Awards, a DGA Award, three PGA Awards and the 2013 GLAAD Award for outstanding reality program. Dziak has been producing in film and television for over 25 years, having spent the past 10 years running Doganieri/van Munster-owned Profiles Television. Vargas has been head of finance/controller at Profiles TV for six years and has spent the past 16 years running finance and accounting for various top television production companies. Thus far in 2019, NMC has closed over $62 million in production deals with networks. The company is currently in production on a tent pole project for National Geographic to air in 2020, as well as multiple new series for CBS and Disney+ to be produced in 2020 and beyond. In addition, multiple projects are in development across a wide range of broadcast, digital and cable networks. >>

Read more here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/national-geographic-begins-casting-race-171500201.html

[BoxOfficeR]

I wonder if they are preparing to move TAR over to streaming services if they have to sometime in the future

[theschnauzers]

TAR’s fate is tied into the fact that both Paramount/CBS and Disney has stakes in airing and syndication of the show. See for example, how the 10 network in Australia is having to negotiate with Disney for a CBS show even though CBS now wholly owns 10.

Given that MTV’s The Real World has moved from its longtime cable home on MTV to Facebook Watch for its 33rd season in Atlanta, I wouldn’t rule out that possibility but having a sufficient budget and quality casting would be an issue. Of course, CBS could choose to go that route with CBS All Access, but I’m not sure the subscriber base is there yet for it to be considered.