Silverback FilmsTurton said All3Media has been courting Silverback founders Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey for years and was “proud” to get the under-the-radarthis week. Although she said All3Media was not looking at “filling gaps” in its portfolio, she admitted that the acquisition takes the company into a new and revered field of content production.
, a BBC/Discovery co-production that fuses natural history and science to explore the unique systems that allow planet Earth to thrive.Turton declined to comment on the terms of the deal, but it’s not too much of a stretch to suggest that Silverback would have been valued at tens of millions of dollars. The producer’s revenue grew 74% to £16.4M last year, while it cut its pre-tax loss by 77% to £113,000.