BBC Studios Starts a Hunt for IP

BBC Studios has launched a central scripted fund for projects based on European intellectual property and assigned producer Ben Donald to help find them, according to Deadline.

The trade publication reported that Donald, an executive producer on “The Mallorca Files,” is taking on a support role alongside his existing work running Cosmopolitan Pictures. His brief is to help identify what Deadline described as the next generation of European hits built from IP.

Even in television, where everyone says they want the new thing, this is a vote for the familiar architecture of adaptation. A central fund also suggests BBC Studios wants a cleaner, more coordinated way to shop for stories that already arrive with some shape, recognition or rights value attached.

Based on the RSS summary alone, Deadline did not specify the size of the fund or which markets and formats will be prioritised.

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