British TV shows fetched a record £1.85B ($2.25B) in 2022-23, new stats reveal.
24.10.2023 - 11:47 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Little Dot Studios and its streamer, History Hit, have struck an exclusive deal with Rishi Sharma, a doc maker known for interviewing thousands of World War II veterans.
For the past eight years, digital content creator Sharma has been interviewing WWII vets around the globe, with each lasting between 2-4 hours. His repository of videos now numbers more than 2,000 video and audio interviews, making Sharma’s the almost certainly the largest, unexplored personal archives of its kind in the world.
The multi-year content agreement will see All3Media-owned digital studio Little Dot provide an upfront funding pot for further filming for Sharma, whose mission began when he was a teenager.
Little Dot will take on channel management and publishing of Sharma’s YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok channels, and the Dan Snow co-founded History Hit will acquire exclusive FAST, broadcast, AVOD and SVOD rights to the library. This will be made available through the streamer’s media network, including the Timeline, War Stories, Real History and The American Story channels, FAST channels and SVOD and podcast networks.
Furthermore, History Hit has commissioned a 30-minute documentary following Sharma across the U.S. as he meets more veterans for his Remember WWII channel.
Snow, co-founder and Creative Director of History Hit, said: “History Hit was founded on the belief that there is a huge appetite around the world for stories and people like these. These are the accounts of people who were there when history was made, when our present and future were shaped. Witnessing Rishi Sharma’s dedicated efforts to capture the firsthand experiences of WWII veterans reaffirms the urgency of our mission and as time marches on, their
British TV shows fetched a record £1.85B ($2.25B) in 2022-23, new stats reveal.
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