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Banijay buys Zig Zag

TV powerhouse purchases U.K. indie co.

PARIS — Stephane Courbit’s ever-growing TV powerhouse Banijay Entertainment has bought U.K. indie production company Zig Zag Prods.

The purchase of one of Blighty’s prominent nonfiction specialists comes just months after Banijay acquired Nordisk Film TV in October and in July announced the purchase of Germany’s Brainpool and the creation of a U.S. joint venture with Angel City Factory.

Based out of Paris, Banijay’s portfolio of companies includes production houses in France, Spain and Russia.

The Banijay-Zig Zag pact also includes Zig Zag subsid Hoohah, a digital creative agency focusing on short form and branded entertainment content.

Zig Zag was set up in 1999 by managing director Danny Fenton and CEO Kevin Utton, who, if the Zig Zag acquisition plays out like other Banijay buys, will stay with the company.

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Zig Zag has produced over 400 hours of factual programs, factual entertainment, gameshows and reality shows. Productions include gameshow “Relentless” among multiple shows for Channel Four, the docu series “The Truth Behind…,” made for National Geographic Channel, a strong line in male-skewed docu entertainment such as “Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men” and “Vinny Jones Toughest Cops” and a slew of celeb-driven docus, such as “Madonna and Guy: Where Did It All Go Wrong?”

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