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£7.3m multi-series win
£7.3m multi-series win.
About this update from Zinc Media Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of the UK Market Abuse Regulation.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3 April\n \n \n 2023\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zinc Media Group plc\n \n \n \n \n (\"Zinc\n \"\n or the\n \"Group\")\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n £7.3m multi-series win\n \n \n \n \n The Group's\n \n \n largest\n \n \n to date\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zinc Media Group plc (AIM: ZIN), the award-winning television, brand and audio production group,\n is pleased to\n announce\n that the Group has won its largest ever television commission in a two year deal worth £7.3 million.\n \n \n Channel 5 has commissioned Zinc's popular factual television label Red Sauce to produce 136 hours of the hit show\n \n Bargain Loving Brits\n \n . This multi-series commission, which will be broadcast in 2023 and 2024, is a material increase on Zinc's previous largest ever volume order of 54 episodes secured in September 2021 which was viewed by a cumulative audience of over 22 million. £5m of the revenue is expected to be recognised in 2023, with the remainder in 2024.\n \n \n The two year deal comprises 120 hour-long episodes to be broadast during the daytime and a further 16 hours for broadcast during peak time evenings. The highly rating series will continue to be produced from the Group's Manchester production base.\n \n \n \n Bargain Loving Brits\n \n (\"BLB\")\n charts the lives of the Brits who\n ha\n ve swapped\n life in\n the UK for a new life in Spain. Covering a cross section of ex-pat\n s\n , these new series will continue to tell the stories of the much-loved characters from previous BLB series.\n \n \n Red Sauce\n is the\n home of factual entertainment\n within Zinc's TV production\n powerhouse\n of six television production companies. It is\n led by former\n P\n roducer and Commissioning Editor in BBC Factual, Tom Edwards\n , whose\n credits include, as Showrunner,\n \n Mary Queen of Shops\n \n (Optomen for BBC Two),\n \n The Undercover Princes\n \n (Objective North for BBC Three and BBC One) and\n \n Wife Swap\n \n (RDF for ...