Banijay-owned SAS: Rogue HeroesKudos took a 25% stake in the producer Kudos A Body of Evidence And The Missing podcast indie What’s The Story?, following a first look-deal signed last year.
The Leeds-based company, run by Workerbee and Candour execs Darrell Brown and Sophie Ellis will also develop unscripted ideas and become a trusted podcast supplier for Banijay labels.
Kudos Co-MD Martin Haines, who will sit on the What’s The Story? According to Martin Haines, Kudos CEO Martin Haines will sit on the What’s the Story? board. “fruitful synergies” between Kudos’ and What’s The Story?’s content since the first-look deal struck in September 2020.
“Working together, there is a real opportunity to discover new stories and new ways to tell them for both television and for the audio space,”He added.
Haines brokered the deal and financed it via a Banijay scripted creativity fund, which was overseen by Lars Blomgren, Head of Scripted at EMEA.
What’s The Story? was established in early 2020. It has been behind the success of the Audible podcast. A Body Of EvidenceThe Missing Spotify original was released in the newest version. Emily Atack: A Lie Detector.
Brown and Ellis claimed they had “ambitious plans to become the home for true crime and incredible human stories you won’t find anywhere ele.”
Kudos’ BBC1 epicSAS Rogue HeroesIt will air at Easter and was sold to Epix in America.