"Monty Don’s Garden"
UK television production group Tin Roof Media is launching a distribution label to increase and diversify revenue streams and build on a significant increase in co-production output and growth in new titles over the past few years.
Tin Roof Media Distribution will manage relationships with current international distribution partners for its existing catalogue as well as new commissions, and will have responsibility for licensing rights directly for IP not currently represented by partners. It will also increase group revenue though licensing the AVOD and FAST rights to its extensive catalogue of content from Tin Roof Media group companies Blink Films and Outline Productions.
The Group has appointed Alice Bennett-Leyh to a newly created role of Head of Rights Management & Distribution. Working to Group Director of Operations, Ulla Streib. Alice will manage relationships with existing and new third-party distributors, while building Tin Roof Media Distribution’s business.
Bennett-Leyh has worked in distribution and rights management for the past 16 years. Initially in an acquisitions role for distributors including NENT Studios' UK content distribution business formerly known as DRG and in more recent years with UK factual broadcast indies in a commercial affairs and IP rights management capacity.
Blink Films and Outline Productions’ slate of award-winning factual programming for UK channels and international broadcasters and streamers includes "Treasures Decoded", "Ten Mistakes That Sank the Titanic", "Monty Don’s Garden", "Royals Declassified","Sarah Beeny’s Renovate Don’t Relocate" and "Michel Roux’s French Country Cooking".
This expansion of in-house distribution capabilities at Tin Roof Media is supported by a three-year international business development grant from The UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF), financed by the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and administered by the BFI.
Alice Bennett-Leyh consider it as an investment for international markets:“Through our labels Blink Films and Outline Productions, Tin Roof Media has a rich legacy of factual programming.The launch of our distribution label with the support of this three-year investment from The Global Screen Fund enables us to extend the life of our content, increasingly look to international markets and invest back into our growing production business," commented.
Tin Roof Media Chairman Rod Henwood estimate that it is a key point for the global strategy: “Growing revenue through international distribution of our content is a key plank of our business strategy. With the formation of Tin Roof Media Distribution, and the appointment of Alice, we’re looking to build on this further. We see great opportunities to increase the returns on our IP through directly licensing the rights we own and control, in particular to the fast-growing number of digital platforms around the world, while also continuing to work closely with distributor partners," noted.