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Noah Media gets £2m investment from new backers
Noah Media Group has won £2m of backing from a roster of investors across tech, media and sports to aid its future growth plans.
Noah Media Group, founded six years ago by Chairman Barry Smith, CEO and producer John McKenna and directors Gabriel Clarke & Torquil Jones has credits including theatrical releases Finding Jack Charlton and Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans and Adam Hills: Take His Legs that was broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK and Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager that was picked up internationally by Netflix.
The new stakeholders include ex-Skyscanner CEO Gareth Williams, former XIX Entertainment President James Clayton, Hollywood entertainment lawyer Kevin Yorn, former editor of WIRED magazine David Rowan and multi F1 Grand Prix-winning motor racing driver Mark Webber.
These plans will focus on bringing together a world-class technology team to “build a data-driven evaluation engine, which will allow Noah greater scrutiny in their choice of films and series to produce, on a per-project basis, at a global scale, in order to maximise the distribution and commercial opportunities for all of their content.”
Also, development will begin on an end-to-end platform that will deliver “greater transparency for the entire filmmaking process: from finance, production and distribution, through to sales, marketing and collection.” Plans will allow for this platform to be licensed to independent filmmakers in the future.
Noah Chairman Barry Smith explains, “This is an extremely exciting time for Noah Media Group. This injection of investment will go directly into advancing and improving our evaluation processes, leading to better production and distribution decisions. Firstly, identifying and then reaching a bigger audience will, we believe, lead to greater profitability for independent filmmakers and financiers through a combination of targeting and growing this audience (transactional D2C) and creating films and series with an increased international appeal to our downstream partners (SVOD, broadcasters etc).”
CEO John McKenna continues, “This new investment will enable us to make smarter decisions to continue delivering world class content for some of the biggest streaming platforms, broadcasters and sport federations in the world. We believe this will allow us to be more effective for our partners. As far as we know, this isn’t being done at scale by any other independent production company and we are very excited to get started on this next phase for the business.”
2021 Investor and Co-Founder, ex-CEO of Skyscanner Gareth Williams adds “Noah Media Group delivers outstanding films and I am delighted to be able to invest into Noah. The software they are building will bring some norms of internet distribution to challenge some of the inefficiencies that exist in this industry. I join some amazing technology and media investors – and I believe John and his team will continue to execute strongly as they enter this growth phase.”
Jon Creamer
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Strictly Come Dancing: Tasha Ghouri reveals how deafness affects Strictly Come Dancing rehearsals
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Tasha Ghouri has spoken about how her disability has affected her Strictly Come Dancing rehearsals.
The Love Island star, 26, was born deaf and initially fitted for hearing aids before receiving a single cochlear implant just before her fifth birthday. The device assists with Ghouri’s hearing by electrically stimulating her auditory nerve.
Ahead of her first Strictly performance, the reality star discussed her “concentration fatigue” with her professional dance partner Aljaz Skorjanec, who suggested they practice with the show’s live band ahead of their first performance of the series.
When Skorjanec asked Ghouri if Strictly training had been a struggle at any point, the influencer replied: “I think when you grow up with deafness you learn how to adapt.”
She explained: “I can suffer from concentration fatigue from lip reading all day. There may be times when I have a power nap for ten to 20 minutes just to get myself back and re-energised.”
Ghouri admitted: “I would love to take my cochlear implant out to really feel the music. Feel the vibrations. To feel ‘ok this is how it’s going to feel on Saturday night.’”
Skorjanec then suggested he and Ghouri head to the BBC studios where Strictly is filmed ahead of the live show to practice with the live band.
After rehearsing in the studio space, Ghouri said the live music really “elevated the sound” and was eager to film the show.
Ghouri and Skorjanec wowed the Strictly judges with their cha cha to Sabrina Carpenter’s summer anthem “Espresso”.
“It felt like just you and me on that dance floor,” Ghouri told her partner following the performance, which scored 30 points out of the available 40.
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“I am blown away,” celebrated one fan on X/Twitter. “She just set the bar up high after that.”
Ghouri has faced criticism over her inclusion in the Strictly Come Dancing line up due to her dance background.
Before shooting to fame on Love Island in 2022, the reality star trained as a dancer at Creative Academy and has since competed at major dance events and performed in music videos.
Some viewers feel that Ghouri’s extensive dance experience will give her an unfair advantage in the competition, but the star has hit back at those claims.
“When you’re in the studio, the glitterballs and the ballroom floor it’s like a whole new world,” she told The Independent and other media.
“Commercial dance is very different to ballroom dance and latin. I’m still having to strip down and relearn, even walking in cha cha step is weird to me.”
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Paul Merson’s performance on week one of Strictly Come Dancing was described as “special and different” by the judges.
The former Arsenal star danced the American Smooth to Fat Les’s football anthem “Vindaloo” with partner Karen Hauer on Saturday night (21 September).
He scored 2, 4, 5 and 6 from the judges, totting up to 17 in total, but received some nice feedback from the judges.
“This was special, this was different,” Motsi Mabuse said.
Anton Du Beke, meanwhile, described Hauer as a “genius” for her choreography.
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Apples Never Fall review: Annette Bening drama lacks the crunch of a Pink Lady, but it’s twists and turns galore
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There are but a few authors who have their own universes within the modern television landscape. Agatha Christie, of course, gets a new adaptation every Christmas. There’s also David Nicholls and Kate Atkinson, or any number of thriller writers, from Gillian Flynn to the indefatigable Harlan Coben. But none have made quite the impression, in recent years, of Australian author Liane Moriarty, whose books have spawned a number of blockbuster sagas, the latest of which, Apples Never Fall, turns up this week on BBC One.
Joy Delaney (Annette Bening) has gone missing. She has recently retired from the tennis academy she ran with her volatile husband Stan (Sam Neill), and her disappearance sparks the concern of her children: anxious Amy (Alison Brie), macho Troy (Jake Lacy), disenchanted Logan (Conor Merrigan Turner), and unreliable Brooke (Essie Randles). Has somebody murdered their mother? And is that “somebody” their father, given that Joy may have been seeking a divorce? Or is Joy’s vanishing somehow linked to the sudden appearance, many months earlier, of a mysterious young woman, Savannah (Georgia Flood), who becomes a cuckoo in the Delaney nest?
If you know Moriarty’s work, you’ll know where this is going. Twists and turns, misdirection and obfuscation, not to mention lashings of family drama. This is the third big-budget adaptation of Moriarty’s work, beginning with 2017’s Big Little Lies, and followed up by Amazon’s Nine Perfect Strangers as the meat in this hammy sandwich. Though they are unified by A-list talent and high production values, the creative ambitions have been progressively stifled. Where Big Little Lies was shot with a vaguely artistic eye, Apples Never Fall is your run-of-the-mill sepia-infused thriller. Even the title is clunky, and the dialogue is often similarly stilted. “Everyone says they want a doctor in the family,” the sibylline Savannah observes. “But I think having someone in the geosciences around is way more interesting.”
All the same, how bad can a show with Annette Bening, Sam Neill and Alison Brie really be? And that is the key to Apples Never Fall. Each episode follows a different Delaney as they navigate both the family dynamics and the muckraking presence who will resurface long-buried secrets. They all glow in the south-Florida light (a relocation from the novel’s Australian setting, though the series is still filmed there), looking preternaturally beautiful. But that’s something that unifies the Moriartiverse: glamorous people, in glamorous settings, behaving slightly repulsively towards one another. And while no one is departing much from their established archetypes – Lacy is now the go-to Hollywood bro, while Brie has played every bug-eyed neurotic going – it all fits together neatly, like a puzzle.
“It kind of felt easy being a martyr,” Joy confesses, in flashback. “Maybe I let myself down.” And for all that Apples Never Fall delivers reliable tropes – the missing woman, the mysterious stranger, the rival from the past who’s back on the scene – its core concern is how a dysfunctional marriage begets a dysfunctional family. The script, from showrunner Melanie Marnich, is frequently heavy-handed, but there’s enough in the material to keep viewers’ interest for seven episodes. And while it doesn’t stick the landing in the same way as Big Little Lies, the rug-pull in the seventh chapter manages, in tennis terms, to be a comfortable put-away, even if it’s not quite a smash.
Apples Never Fall exists in the middle of a Venn diagram between full-blown murder mystery thrillerdom, and an almost soap operatic depiction of crumbling dynasties. It is an emerging portmanteau genre, designed to unite men and women, young and old, in something mildly exciting, mildly titillating and mildly relatable. The result is a show that lacks the crunch of a Pink Lady, but still has the mellow tones and summer flavourings of a Golden Delicious.
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