BossaNova acquires trio of talent-led lifestyle series

BossaNova Media, the content creation, funding and distribution company, has acquired the rights to three new celebrity-led factual entertainment lifestyle series: Martin Compston Living Las Vegas, Guy Martin: Proper Jobs and Katie Piper’s Weekend Escape.

Produced by Zinc Media’s Tern TV for Channel 4 in the UK, Martin Compston Living Las Vegas (3 x 60 mins) joins the Scottish actor and former professional footballer on an insider’s tour of his adopted city. Best known for his role as Detective Inspector Steve Arnott in the hit BBC drama Line of Duty, Compston has been resident in Las Vegas for the past 10 years. Over three one-hour episodes he unlocks the real Vegas, letting viewers into Sin City’s best-kept culinary and cultural secrets, while introducing them to millionaires, high rollers, tourists and the slot-machine engineers, hotel workers and entertainers that makes Las Vegas one of the most iconic destinations in the world.

North One’s Guy Martin: Proper Jobs (4 x 60 mins) for U and Dave in the UK gets down and dirty with the sort of work that requires specialist expertise, extreme physical effort, determination and guts — in other words, what the motorcycle racer, truck mechanic, part-time farmer and enthusiastic engineer calls ‘proper jobs’. Martin immerses himself in four demanding and dangerous worlds as he learns the skills needed to work as a trawler deckhand, a wildlife warden, a firefighter and a mountain-rescue dog handler. At the end of each episode, his immersive interview is judged by his peers on one brutal measure: has be performed well enough to be given a proper job?

Katie Piper’s Weekend Escape (22 x 60 mins) is a new long-running series from Phoenix Television, hosted by bestselling author, broadcaster and charity campaigner Katie Piper. The show is shot at an exclusive retreat located in a quintessentially English area of outstanding natural beauty. Each week, Katie and a celebrity guest are introduced to new pamper treatments and activities focused on health and wellbeing. But in addition to its focus on lifestyle, the series also features powerful human-interest stories that throw the spotlight on someone who has braved adversity or done something extraordinary for an individual or community.

Paul Heaney, CEO and founder of BossaNova, said: 'We’re always looking for fresh and fascinating shows to keep our community of buyers and stakeholders happy and their audiences engaged. Martin Compston Living Las Vegas, Guy Martin: Proper Jobs and Katie Piper’s Weekend Escape certainly deliver on ‘fresh and fascinating’ front — and they also meet the growing global demand for talent-driven factual entertainment, which has surged in recent years. For BossaNova, these series certainly deliver on one of our three objectives for the year: grow our genre base by exploring a new and exciting creative direction, along with expanding our clients and platforms.

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