All3Media launches US ops

UK indie group All3Media is setting up a US arm to be run by Studio Lambert bosses Eli Holzman and Stephen Lambert.

Eli Holzman

Holzman, currently Studio Lambert president and former head of Miramax Television, has been named president of All3Media America.

Studio Lambert founder Stephen Lambert – formerly chief creative officer of RDF Media – becomes All3 America chairman.

Studio Lambert USA will cease as a separate entity and will become one of the production company brands within All3 America.

All3 CEO Farah Ramzan Golant, appointed earlier this year, said that the US now accounts for over half of the company’s revenue, making it the firm’s fastest growing market.

Undercover Boss, Kitchen Nightmares and Hotel Hell all come under the All3 umbrella, which aside from Studio Lambert also includes stateside operations for subsidiaries Lion Television and Optomen, plus Gordon Ramsey joint venture One Potato Two Potato.

These operations will continue as they are, while other imprints in the UK, Holland, Germany and New Zealand – Bentley, ID-TV, Lime, Maverick, MME, North One, Objective and South Pacific Pictures – will now produce their US programming with All3 America.

“We are bringing our multi-genre, award winning creative companies in our group to the US market and supporting them with a high quality, fully-resourced production capability,” said Ramzan Golant. “It is a fusion of diverse, creative talent with strong production infrastructure.”

Stephen Lambert

Stephen Lambert added: “Eli and I are hugely excited by the opportunity to work with the many highly-talented creative teams across the All3Media Group in our new hub, and help them sell and produce their ideas in the US in both scripted and non-scripted.”

Ex-CBS high-flyer Nancy Tellem continues as All3’s US-based non-exec director, despite recently taking up a post at Microsoft.

All3 appointed business affairs exec Anne Jordan earlier this year to help put things in place in the States, where units including Maverick have already been expanding over the past 12 months.

Ramzan Golant also credited All3 chief operating officer Jane Turton and CFO Adam Jones for paving the way for the latest developments.