Boat Rocker Media Acquires Platform One Media

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Canadian entertainment company Boat Rocker Media continues to aggressively expand its Hollywood holdings with another acquisition

sition. Boat Rocker has boughtTPG Growth, whose parent TPG owns a majority stake in CAA, and John Malone’s Liberty Global.

Over the past year and a half, Boat Rocker Media has been expanding aggressively its global footprint with acquisitions of unscripted production company Matador Content, which is behind Paramount Network’sFremantle’s Kids & Family division, taking a majority stake in Insight Productions, a leading Canadian unscripted production company , and making a significant financial investment in talent management/production company Untitled Entertainment.

Platform One’s portfolio includes recently greenlit untitled science fiction series from Simon Kinberg and David Weil for Apple, and straight-to-seriesfor Showtime, based on Philipp Meyer’s debut novel American Rust, starring and executive produced by Jeff Daniels and written by Dan Futterman. The studio is also in pre-production on, a drama series from Zak Penn for Spectrum Originals, and has a first-look television deal with Laura Dern and Jayme Lemon’s production company, Jaywalker Pictures.

Platform One was majority owned by Evolution Media, TPG Growth’s investment partnership with CAA and Participant Media, with Liberty Global taking a minority equity stake via Liberty Global Group in its first major foray into TV production and distribution. The studio absorbed TPG Growth’s Slingshot Global Media.

 

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