LONDON, UK: Zinc Media Group plc (AIM: ZIN), the TV and multimedia content material producer, has launched a brand new tv label, Rex, to address the expansion in popular factual and documentaries genre. This new label will be led by BAFTA-winning programme maker Lana Salah.
Lana Salah joined the Group within the final few weeks as Creative Director of Rex and can be reuniting with former Shine TV colleague Tanya Shaw, who began within the role of Managing Director of Zinc Television in January. This latest rent continues the transformation of Zinc’s tv providing and helps the subsequent generation of talent.
Salah is widely famend for her work on high-profile, long-running actuality series such as SAS: Who Dares Wins, First Dates and Celebrity First Dates. She has not solely executive-produced a few of the UK’s main popular factual series, however her profession additionally spans a variety of wider factual programming.
As one of many market leaders in factual programme production, Zinc has a fantastic portfolio of manufacturing labels. The launch of Rex enables the Company to mix Lana’s significant expertise with Zinc’s ardour for making premium, popular factual and documentary programming. Rex sits completely alongside Red Sauce, with its factual leisure ambitions and its regional footprint, and completely enhances Tern’s work in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Under Rex, Zinc will look to create content material that brings a premium sensibility to popular factual and documentaries, working with the best on-screen expertise to create must-watch, returnable series for the broadest possible audiences.
Tanya Shaw, Managing Director of Zinc Television, commented: “Lana is an terribly versatile and well-respected programme maker. With over 20 years of manufacturing expertise on a few of the UK’s biggest popular factual series, from talent-led returning series to premium documentary series and singles, she has an terribly strong track record. I am past delighted that she is becoming a member of the team. Zinc has gained a positive creative force and I am thrilled that she goes to be heading up our latest label.”
Zinc Media Group plc is a number one tv and content material creation group. The award-winning and critically acclaimed tv labels comprise, Brook Lapping, Films of Record, Red Sauce, Supercollider and Tern Television and produce programmes throughout a variety of factual genres for UK and worldwide channels.
With offices in London, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Belfast, Manchester, and Macclesfield, Zinc Media Group produces content material for UK and US broadcasters from its bases throughout the UK. The Group is additionally home to Zinc Communicate, a division producing TV and digital content for brands, companies and partners, together with Zinc’s new Branded Entertainment Division, launched final summer.
Zinc Communicate specialises in developing cross-platform content material for brands, companies and partners. www.zincmedia.com