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67-726: Argonon is an independent media group founded in 2011 by James Burstall , the CEO of Leopard Films. Argonon has offices in London , Los Angeles , New York , Oklahoma , and Glasgow . The group produces and distributes factual entertainment, documentary, reality, arts, drama, and children's programming for various television networks and channels worldwide, although they focus on the UK, US, and Canadian markets. Argonon produces shows such as The Masked Singer UK (ITV), Worzel Gummidge (BBC One), Hard Cell ( Netflix ), Dispatches (Channel 4), Attenborough and

134-658: A Royal Television Society Programme Award 2021 in the Entertainment category and an International Emmy Award 2021 in the Non-Scripted Entertainment category. The Masked Singer Live! tour version of the show was announced by Joel Dommett in an appearance on The One Show in December 2021. The Masked Singer Live! toured the UK throughout 2022. The third series of The Masked Singer premiered on ITV on 1 January 2022. In February 2022, it

201-427: A BAFTA award for best Single Documentary, a Grierson award for Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme, an RTS award for Best Single Documentary and a Broadcast Award for Best Single Documentary. Your Inner Fish for PBS (produced in collaboration with Tangled Bank Studios) won two Wildscreen Panda Awards, two Jackson Hole Science Media awards, and an AAAS Kavli award. The Batman of Mexico for BBC Natural World won

268-401: A Critics Choice Real TV Award 2021 for Best Lifestyle: Home/Garden Show. Man Caves is a long-running home renovation reality show which was first produced by Leopard USA in 2007 and is presented by former Super Bowl winner Tony Siragusa for cable channel DIY. Dear Genevieve , featuring designer and presenter Genevieve Gorder , launched on HGTV in 2009, and each episode sees Gorder design

335-777: A Digital Emmy, a BAFTA craft innovation award and two Webby Awards ; Easter Eggs Live ; Foxes Live: Wild in the City ; The Operation: Surgery Live , a week of live surgery. Windfall has produced several historical documentaries, including Generals At War , a 'cardboard' battle strategy format for NGCI; Attack of the Zeppelins ; and Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb (for C4 and PBS NOVA); The Great Escape: Revealed for Channel 5 and PBS; Colditz ; Men of Iron and Commando , all for Channel 4. Windfall has also produced engineering formats illustrated with CGI, including Strip

402-515: A Hole for Channel 4, which won Best Science Film at Green Screen 2019, and How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery for BBC Four, which captured the first-ever image of a black hole and won a Gold Award at the 2020 New York Festivals TV and Film Awards in the Science & Technology category. Windfall also produced the Emmy award-winning series DNA for PBS and Channel 4 celebrating

469-557: A Wildscreen Panda Award and a New York Wild Film Festival award. In 2009, Sons of Cuba , a feature documentary about an inspirational boxing academy in Havana and winner of Best Documentary at the Rome Film Festival and Best Newcomer Grierson Award. Science and Natural History highlights include Inside Nature's Giants for Channel 4, which won a BAFTA for Best Specialist Factual; The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway about

536-477: A branded video agency, Nemorin Film & Video , bringing Nemorin's CEO Pete Fergusson into the group. In 2021, Argonon launched a factual formats-focused production company Studio Leo with Claire Collinson-Jones, becoming Chief Creative Officer of the firm. In 2022, Argonon partnered with Joe Weinstock to launch a new production company, Rose Rock Entertainment. The group saw a turnover of £55.6m in 2021. Argonon

603-608: A co-venture between documentary film-maker Nick Godwin and the Argonon group in 2013. In 2018, Argonon acquired full ownership of the company, with Godwin staying on as Creative Director. The company produces factual, features, documentary and drama-documentary programming for the international market and has worked with ITV, Channel 5, Channel 4, Shaw Media , Discovery International, and Discovery ID. Productions include long-running Channel 5 series Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords which focuses on conflicts between landlords and tenants;

670-457: A documentary narrated by Bill Nighy , which has been co-produced with Blue Ant Media in Canada. Argonon has won 120 awards and received over 180 nominations. These include Emmys, BAFTAs and RTS Awards. Executive Producer – Leopard Films Executive Producer - Leopard USA Executive Producer - Leopard Drama Shaw Media In 1974, a group led by Israel Asper bought

737-565: A fourth, CHBC Kelowna , was converted to a Global station. The remaining station, CHCA Red Deer , was closed as of the same date. On September 24, the company announced that it would sell its 50.1% stake in Ten Network Holdings for A$ 680 million, in order to pay down its significant debt. The sale of CanWest's Australian media operations reduced some C$ 582-million in debt tied to the Australian TV network, raising

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804-399: A further C$ 15 million in the restructured entity. In January 2010, CanWest's bonds commanded about 70 cents on the dollar. CanWest's bonds at one point traded for as little as 15 cents on the dollar. Several sources say that as CanWest notes increased fivefold in price, distressed-debt funds took profits on part of their position, with Angelo Gordon among the buyers. On February 3, 2010, it

871-920: A joint venture: Bandicoot, in partnership with Derek McLean and Daniel Nettleton. In late 2020, Argonon acquired branded video agency, Nemorin Film & Video. In 2021, Argonon launched a factual formats-focused production company, Studio Leo, with Claire Collinson-Jones becoming the Chief Creative Officer of the firm. Argonon is made up of eight companies: Bandicoot Scotland (a joint venture with Bandicoot co-founders Derek McLean and Daniel Nettleton); Leopard Pictures ( Worzel Gummidge, BBC One ); BriteSpark East/BriteSpark Films (known for Channel 4 's Dispatches ); Leopard USA ( House Hunters International , HGTV); Windfall Films ( Unearthed , Discovery); Like A Shot ( Abandoned Engineering, UKTV 's Yesterday ); Studio Leo ( Inside Tesco 24/7 , Channel 5) and Nemorin Film & Video. Notable productions from

938-684: A madcap, gross-out, comedy game show called What The Yuck?! with Geordie Shore star Nathan Henry. BriteSpark also produced the Bill Nighy narrated Channel 5 travel documentaries World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys and World's Most Scenic River Journeys , with the latter series co-produced with the Blue Ant-owned Saloon Media in Canada. BriteSpark also produced several episodes for Channel 4's current affairs strand Dispatches , including Royals for Hire , Deep Fakes: Can You Trust Your Eyes? , Coronavirus: How Britain

1005-608: A portrait of London's jewellers working in the Hatton Garden district called Diamond Geezers and Gold Dealers (for ITV); a programme for Channel 4 called Manchester's Serial Killer? which investigates a spate of suspicious deaths in Manchester's canals; a drama-documentary series for Investigation Discovery called The Wives Did It which profiles murder cases involving polygamy. BriteSpark also produces Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed for Discovery International and

1072-464: A room or an area for a family after they have written to the show asking for help. Other programming highlights include Food Network's Restaurant Divided and CNBC's The Filthy Rich Guide . Programmes for A&E include Missing Las Vegas , Disaster Guy , and Ransom Squad . In 2019, a multi-part series called Mormon Love was aired on Facebook Watch . It was produced by James Burstall, Rick de Oliveira, and Jillian Brand. In 2021, six episodes of

1139-503: A series of cost-cutting moves. The company's income statements reported net losses in 2008 and 2009, even though its operating activities were profitable (before taxes, interest, and non-operating charges: C$ 197 million in 2009, vs. C$ 428 million in 2008). On August 31, 2009, Canwest shut down its secondary system E! (the former CH). Three of the former E! owned-and-operated stations – CHCH Hamilton , CHEK Victoria , and CJNT Montreal – were sold to third parties, while

1206-483: A significant financial toll. As early as 2002, most of Canwest's operating income was going to pay interest on its high-interest rate debt. By 2007, the company's bonds were downgraded to junk status. In October 2005, CanWest's Canadian newspapers were sold into an IPO trust. Sold 25.8% of Canada's newspapers for C$ 550 million. Attached to the Canadian newspaper IPO was $ 850 million in long term debt. CanWest bought back

1273-622: A turnover of more than £55m in 2020. Argonon is listed in the London Stock Exchange "1000 Companies To Inspire Britain 2016" report as well as the 2017 report. Argonon is listed in the 2016 Sunday Times HSBC Track 200. In 2019, Argonon won the National Winner Award (UK) at the European Awards. In 2017, Argonon acquired non-scripted producer Like A Shot Entertainment. Burstall's group also invested in

1340-579: Is Changing , The Prince and the Paedophile and The Truth About Electric Cars. Leopard Pictures was launched in 2017 from the previously titled Leopard Drama. Kristian Smith was appointed Chief Creative Officer. Their most recent shows were Worzel Gummidge , a two-part children's drama series which aired on BBC1 starring Mackenzie Crook , the animated Mimi And The Mountain Dragon, and The Snow Spider (CBBC & BBC One Wales). Crook features in

1407-628: Is a BAFTA and Emmy award -winning independent production company. Founded in 1988 by David Dugan, Ian Duncan, and Oliver Morse, it became part of the Argonon group in 2014. The company produces factual and documentary programmes across various genres, including science, engineering, social, history, adventure, and natural history. The company produces programmes for international television networks including BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, PBS , Discovery Channel , National Geographic Channel , and History Channel . Highlights include Murder Trial for Channel 4 which won many documentary awards in 2014, including

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1474-428: Is a British film and television producer and Chief Executive Officer of the international group Argonon which he founded in 2011. Argonon has many companies within the group located in London , Los Angeles , New York City , Oklahoma and Glasgow . Burstall’s broadcast career credits span many genres and international territories. They range from reality series Mormon Love on Facebook Watch , TV shows Cash in

1541-594: Is a singing competition based on the Masked Singer franchise and is an ongoing production for Bandicoot. It is directed by Casey Antwis and Simon Staffurth, with Jonathan Ross , Davina McCall , Ken Jeong , and Rita Ora as panellists. In series two, Jeong was replaced by Mo Gilligan . The spin-off series, The Masked Dancer , featured Jonathan Ross, Davina McCall, Mo Gilligan and Oti Mabuse as panellists. Joel Dommett has hosted all series of The Masked Singer and The Masked Dancer . The Masked Singer won

1608-676: The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for BBC. In 2021, Windfall produced the documentary, Jabbed! Inside Britain's Vaccine Triumph for Channel 4, telling the story of the government's Vaccine Taskforce – the team responsible for finding, funding and procuring Covid vaccines, specifically the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine . The documentary won a BAFTA Scotland award in the News & Current Affairs category. James Burstall James Burstall

1675-502: The Companies' Creditors Arrangements Act . Canwest Limited Partnership, a subsidiary which owns the company's other newspaper assets and online properties, is negotiating separately with creditors, and is expected to file for creditor protection at a later date. Specialty channels operated in partnership with other companies (such as TVtropolis , Mystery TV , MenTV , and the former Alliance Atlantis properties) are also not included in

1742-830: The Republic of Ireland , and Australia , although all were eventually sold off. In 1991, Canwest issued a successful initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In June 1996, Canwest was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Lacking a presence in Alberta , the company set its sights on Western International Communications , which owned three independent stations in that province that carried Global programming. It eventually bought that company's broadcasting assets in 2000. This not only boosted Global's coverage in western Canada, but prompted

1809-658: The University of Bristol , studied leadership at the Said Business School , University of Oxford (2011) and Leading Changing at the Graduate School of Business, University of Stanford, California (2013). Before his television career, Burstall was a journalist, working as a writer and editor in Paris, London and New York for Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveler , and The Evening Standard . Burstall

1876-487: The 25.8% Newspaper Trust IPO (and debt) in November 2008, for cash considerations of $ 495 million. The company was already one of the largest owners of Canadian local TV stations, when Canwest and Goldman Sachs in 2007 announced they would jointly acquire Canadian producer and broadcaster Alliance Atlantis Communications and its large stable of wide-distribution specialty channels. Under the deal, Canwest took control of

1943-486: The 50th anniversary of the double helix for Channel 4 and PBS; Absolute Zero was a series about the science of extreme cold for PBS and BBC 4; Wanted: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid was produced for C4 True Stories and PBS NOVA and Reality On The Rocks was a Channel 4 series that follows Ken Campbell trying to get to grips with A Brief History of Time . Windfall Films has produced live multi-platform events for Channel Four, including D Day: As It Happens , winner of

2010-558: The Attic and House Hunters International to feature-length drama An Englishman In New York . Argonon , through some acquisitions and joint ventures, produces entertainment shows such as The Masked Singer ( ITV ), dramas such as Worzel Gummidge ( BBC One ), Hard Cell ( Netflix ) and documentaries such as Dispatches (Channel 4) and Mysteries of the Abandoned ( Discovery Science ). Burstall studied modern languages at

2077-580: The Attic , into the digital world in 2013 with the launch of CashInTheAttic.com, a joint venture providing an online portal for fans of antiques, collectables and vintage. In 2014, Burstall launched further joint ventures, Blacklisted Films, a new drama startup, and The Bridge, a conduit bridging English-speaking TV producers with their counterparts in Asia. The Bridge is co-producing projects in Korea. Burstall's Argonon group, which includes eight companies, saw

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2144-654: The C$ 426 million they received from Canwest balance sheet in September, after CanWest sold its stake in Ten. On October 6, the company voluntarily filed for creditor protection under the CCAA , due to C$ 4 billion mounting debt across radio, television broadcasting and publishing assets in several countries. At the same time it announced it had agreed to a recapitalization transaction with some of its lenders, which will likely require

2211-725: The City for Discovery's Science Channel; Rise of the Machines for H2 and Discovery Canada; Big, Bigger, Biggest for Channel 5 and National Geographic Channel and five series of Monster Moves for Channel 5 and Discovery Channel. Other programmes include two factually-based dramas for Channel Four: Born with Two Mothers and Richard is My Boyfriend and award-winning observational documentaries for Channel 4, including The Decision and Fifteen for BBC. Windfall has also produced adventure formats including The Tourist Trap spied on four different nationalities on holiday and Lost! , dropping three blindfolded groups of competitors anywhere in

2278-806: The Crossrail project in London for BBC 2; Strip the Cosmos for Discovery's Science Channel ; Born in the Wild and Operation Maneater for Channel 4; Spider House for BBC Four ; The Raising of the Costa Concordia for NGCI and PBS NOVA; Race & Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo , an investigation by Rageh Omaar which launched a Channel 4 season on race. Additional notable science highlights include Inside Einstein's Mind for BBC Four , Einstein's Quantum Riddle for PBS , Saving Planet Earth: Fixing

2345-643: The Mammoth Graveyard (BBC One) and House Hunters International (HGTV). In 2017, Argonon invested in a joint venture—Bandicoot—in partnership with Derek McLean and Daniel Nettleton. In the same year Leopard Pictures invested in Kristian Smith, twice BAFTA winner, as Chief Creative Officer. Argonon won the National Winner Award (UK) at the European Awards in 2018 and 2019. Argonon has won 130 awards including Emmys, BAFTAs, and RTS Awards, and received over 200 nominations. In 2020, Argonon acquired

2412-942: The Settlement Agreement, received the approval of the Ontario Superior Court on June 23, 2010, the Competition Bureau as of August 13, 2010, and was given final approval from the CRTC on October 22, 2010, with final closing occurring in October 2011 following the official CMI Transition Order. Canwest is now delisted from the TSX. Canwest was renamed to 2737469 Canada Inc. and ceased doing business that same date (the company would officially be dissolved later that year). Meanwhile, Shaw Communications reorganized Canwest into Shaw Media. The new division

2479-519: The Shaw deal and were already sold separately to Postmedia Network . However, the Asper family with Goldman and Catalyst made their own bid to retake Canwest with a $ 120 million bid in competition with the bid proposed by Shaw Communications. On February 25, 2010, it was announced that Shaw Communications had won a court battle to continue their plans to purchase assets & voting shares from Canwest. After

2546-885: The Sound – Drama category. In November 2021, a Bonfire Night special of Worzel Gummidge titled Guy Forks , aired. Two further one-hour Worzel Gummidge specials aired on BBC One in December 2021, titled Twitchers and Calliope Jane. Leopard Pictures' latest production, Hard Cell , starring Catherine Tate was released on Netflix in April 2022. Leopard USA creates reality, lifestyle, and entertainment programming. From its office in New York City, Leopard USA produces hundreds of hours of programming yearly for television and digital distribution for channels including Facebook , HGTV , DIY , GSN , A&E , TruTV , Speedvision , Discovery , TLC , BBC America , and CNBC . Leopard USA

2613-488: The US revival of Cash in the Attic , hosted by Courtney Tezeno, aired on HGTV and was later available to stream on Discovery+. The series is executive produced by Leopard USA's Chief Creative Officer, Lindsay Schwartz, and Argonon CEO James Burstall. In 2018, Argonon bought Like a Shot Entertainment. The company invests in history and factual science programming and is involved in rights management. Henry Scott and Steve Gillham are

2680-455: The announcement, Shaw revealed that its investment amounted to a minimum of $ 95-million in exchange for 20 per cent of the equity and an 80-per-cent voting interest in the restructured company. Although Goldman, Catalyst, and the Aspers continued to work on their own bid after the Shaw agreement, Shaw announced a revised agreement, following court ordered mediation, under which it would purchase

2747-496: The approval of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). When completed, bondholders – led by hedge funds West Face Capital, GoldenTree Asset Management , and Beach Point Capital Management – will own a majority of shares, leaving existing shareholders, including the Asper family, with a total of 2.3% of the "new" Canwest. However, the Aspers are expected to invest

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2814-500: The assets of Pembina, North Dakota television station KCND-TV from broadcaster Gordon McLendon , moving the station to Winnipeg as independent station CKND-TV . Asper, through his company, Canwest , eventually bought out his partners in the Winnipeg station. A few months later, the Asper group joined a consortium that bought CKGN-TV, a network of six simulcasting transmitters across Ontario that carried many of CKND's programs and

2881-455: The broadcasting portion of AAC, although Goldman Sachs remained a major investor in those assets. Goldman retained or resold the remaining pieces of AAC, the distribution arm soon re-emerging as Alliance Films . Canwest executives testified in the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearings over fee-for-carriage , requesting that the commission force cable and satellite companies to pay for their signals without passing

2948-402: The directors of the company, who co-founded the company in 2011. The company handles production of shows such as UKTV-Yesterday's / Science Channel 's Abandoned Engineering , Forbidden History and Smoke & Steel. Like A Shot's latest production, Black Panthers of WWII aired on UKTV-Yesterday channel in October 2021 as part of Black History Month. The one-off documentary special tells

3015-538: The entirety of Canwest's broadcasting operations, including the portion owned by Goldman. This deal was later modified following a second court ordered mediation to include a settlement agreement between Shaw, creditors, and the Official Ad Hoc Committee of Shareholders, led by the Aspers, Blott Asset Management, L.L.C. and two other hedge funds. This marked the first successful equity committee campaign in Canada under CCAA. A modified deal, including

3082-462: The establishment of a second over-the-air service, originally known as CH , since in some areas the combined company had duplicate over-the-air coverage through multiple stations. Later that year, Canwest announced its acquisition of the Southam newspaper chain from Conrad Black , in order to pursue a media convergence strategy. Canwest was initially slow to invest in specialty channels due to

3149-526: The fees on to their subscribers. In his testimony, Canwest president Leonard Asper blamed the current rules for the poor financial condition of Canada's broadcast television stations, a position which has subsequently been adopted and addressed through rule changes by the CRTC and FCC. By early 2009, it became clear the company's debt was not manageable in light of the global economic crisis , forcing Canwest into an extended set of negotiations with its lenders and

3216-463: The launch of Remedy Canada, with significant investment from Argonon, followed by the acquisition of Transparent TV, producers of lifestyle and documentary programming in the UK, in 2013. Subsequently, that same year, he launched Argonon’s first joint venture BriteSpark Films in 2013, bringing documentarian Nick Godwin into the group. He made further acquisitions, including the multi-award-winning Windfall Films. He took his original production, Cash in

3283-480: The present filing. Canwest shares were also suspended from trading on the TSX . Canwest said that it was not being liquidated at this point, and the company insisted that the proceedings would make Canwest "a stronger industry competitor with a renewed financial outlook." Nevertheless, some analysts expected that the conglomerate would sell assets or be broken up entirely as the restructuring process continues, noting that

3350-738: The privately owned CBC affiliate in Quebec City . Canwest then set up CKMI rebroadcasters in Montreal and Sherbrooke . With this move, Canwest's stations now had enough coverage of Canada that on August 18—the day CKMI officially disaffiliated from CBC—Canwest rebranded its station group as "The Global Television Network". Throughout the 1990s, Global (and its antecedents) held Canadian rights to hit U.S. series such as Cheers , Friends , and Frasier . Canwest also bought broadcasting assets internationally, including outlets in New Zealand ,

3417-423: The provincial public broadcaster Knowledge Network . On September 2, 2014, Paul W. Robertson , the president of Shaw Media since its creation, died from cancer at age 59. He was replaced by Barbara Williams. On January 13, 2016, Corus Entertainment announced that it would acquire Shaw Media for $ 2.65 billion, in a corporate reorganization that would be used to fund Shaw's acquisition of Wind Mobile . The deal

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3484-460: The publishing division has a separate set of lenders. As it turned out, the company would indeed be broken up. In February 2010, the company announced an agreement with Shaw Communications whereby the latter company would buy an 80% voting interest , and 20% equity interest, in the restructured entity, pending approvals from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and others. The company's newspapers were not part of

3551-609: The story of a tank battalion composed of African-American service members, the first US armoured unit of its kind to enter combat. In September 2022, Like A Shot launched a 10 episode podcast series, Forbidden History. Rose Rock Entertainment launched in 2022 as a joint venture between Joe Weinstock and the Argonon Group. Rose Rock Entertainment launched with offices in Los Angeles and Oklahoma and will focus on delivering cinematic American factual content. Windfall Films

3618-444: The strength of its terrestrial network. In 1999, seeking to change this, the company announced a deal to buy out the Canadian partners of NetStar Communications , owner of TSN , but was stymied by U.S. partner ESPN , which had veto power over such a sale. ESPN instead came to terms with Canwest's main rival CTV , a longtime business partner of ESPN's parent company Disney , as an acceptable buyer. Canwest's various acquisitions took

3685-527: The titular role in Worzel Gummidge , while also writing and directing the series. The miniseries is an adaptation of Barbara Euphan Todd 's series of books in which the character Worzel Gummidge , a magical scarecrow, appears. Two one-hour specials aired in December 2019, titled The Scarecrow of Scatterbrook and The Green Man. The third one-hour special, titled Saucy Nancy, aired in December 2020. Saucy Nancy won an RTS Craft & Design Award in 2021 in

3752-543: The total value Canwest can erase from its overall debt to more than C$ 1.2-billion. Before the Ten deal, Canwest held about C$ 3.8-billion of debt on its balance sheet. In court documents, Goldman Sachs alleges "fraudulent" and "abusive" changes to the internal operation of Canwest in the days before it filed for creditor protection. As part of the filing, the Wall Street investment bank is seeking to undo these changes, and has also claimed that CanWest's creditors should return

3819-555: The various companies under the Argonon Group include Bandicoot Scotland's The Masked Singer , a singing competition featuring Jonathan Ross , Davina McCall , Mo Gilligan and Rita Ora as panellists. The Masked Singer won a Royal Television Society Programme Award 2021 in the Entertainment category and was nominated for an International Emmy Award 2021 in the Non-Scripted Entertainment category. Other notable productions include Netflix 's Hard Cell starring Catherine Tate and Channel 5's World’s Most Scenic River Journeys ,

3886-579: The world and then following their progress as they race home, and Mutiny for Channel 4, an experimental programme challenging modern men to relive the Mutiny on the Bounty of 1789. Large returning formats produced by Windfall include: Strip the Cosmos for Discovery Science , Railroad Alaska for Discovery Channel , Unearthed for Discovery Channel, Lost Treasures of Egypt for Nat Geo , My Floating Home for More4 , Europe From Above for Nat Geo, and

3953-418: Was CEO of Leopard Films which he founded in 2001. Before Leopard Films, Burstall worked as an executive producer and producer-director for broadcasters worldwide. Notable projects include Secret History of Hacking (Channel 4/TLC), Cutting Edge (Channel 4) and ITV’s weekly investigative series The Big Story . He also was a founding producer for London’s Planet 24 ( The Big Breakfast for Channel 4) and

4020-904: Was an on-screen reporter and producer for the BBC. He then created Leopard USA , a New-York based production company, in 2003, then Leopard Drama and Leopard International, a distribution and rights business, in 2004. Burstall was a finalist in the 2009 IoD London and the South East Director of the Year Awards for ' Institute of Directors of the Year' (over £5,000,000 category). Burstall created Argonon in 2011, bringing Leopard Films , Leopard Drama and Leopard USA together, renaming Leopard International as Argonon International and acquiring Remedy Productions, specialists in entertainment, music and live events. In 2012, Burstall confirmed

4087-413: Was announced that The Masked Singer had been recommissioned by ITV for two further seasons, with fourth series of The Masked Singer premiering on 1 January 2023. Bandicoot was also behind Peckham's Finest for ITV2. This was an observational documentary series following a diverse group of young people from the area of Peckham , London. BriteSpark Films (also credited as BrightSpark East) launched as

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4154-762: Was approved by the CRTC on March 23, 2016. Since both companies shared a common owner in JR Shaw , the CRTC legally considered the transaction to be a corporate reorganization, and thus exempted it from tangible benefits rules and concentration of media ownership scrutiny. After the sale, Shaw Media was renamed to Corus Media Holdings, Inc. on September 1, 2016. Shaw Media operated twenty specialty channels, two community channels and one pay-per-view channel, including Slice , HGTV Canada , Showcase , Food Network Canada , National Geographic Channel , Lifetime , BBC Canada , History , and H2 The Global Television Network broadcasts via 13 television stations, reaching: Many of

4221-573: Was founded in 2002 and became part of the Argonon group in 2011. The first programme produced by Leopard USA was Cash in the Attic USA for HGTV. Leopard USA programming includes HGTV's House Hunters International , with over 2000 episodes and 160 series completed to date. The programme brand has extended to further shows including House Hunters Off the Grid and House Hunters International: The Adventure Continues . House Hunters International won

4288-532: Was known on-air as the Global Television Network . Canwest bought controlling interest in 1985, thus becoming the first western-based owner of a major Canadian broadcaster. Canwest subsequently invested in or acquired other independent TV stations across Canada. Eventually, his station group became known as the "Canwest Global System." In 1997, Canwest bought controlling interest in CKMI-TV ,

4355-567: Was listed in the London Stock Exchange "1000 Companies To Inspire Britain 2016" and 2017 reports. Argonon was also listed in the 2016 Sunday Times HSBC Track 200. Bandicoot TV (sometimes credited as Bandicoot Scotland) was founded in 2017 by Derek McLean and Daniel Nettleton as a joint venture with Argonon. Productions include Chase The Case for ITV1, Test Drive for BBC Scotland and ITV's versions of The Masked Singer and spin-off The Masked Dancer . The Masked Singer

4422-417: Was named Shaw Media, reviving a name previously used for a separate set of media properties owned by Shaw prior to 1999, when the latter group was spun off as Corus Entertainment . Despite both companies being controlled by the Shaw family, Corus and the then-new Shaw Media remained independent, separately-managed entities. On May 12, 2011, Shaw Media sold BBC Kids to the government of British Columbia via

4489-426: Was reported that a group led by Golden Tree Asset Management LP complained that "it was unfairly frozen out of the auction of Canwest Limited Partnership." As part of the transaction, Canwest and some of its subsidiaries, including Canwest Media Inc., The National Post Company , and Canwest Television LP (the licensee of Global, MovieTime , DejaView , and Fox Sports World Canada ) filed for creditor protection under

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