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Boughen Heads Up Ambience Concept
(Credit:
SMPTE)
Michael
Boughen has departed Southern Star Endemol to
form a new production venture with The Ambience
Entertainment Group and Bryan Lowe's Harbourside
Pictures. The new three-way venture called AMBIENCE
CONCEPT will focus on light entertainment, reality
and game shows and will be active in both development
and production as well as format licensing internationally.
Boughen's
most recent position has been Executive Producer
of Seven's Deal or No Deal and he has formerly
headed a joint venture Southern Star Concept dating
back to 1994. Over 17 years, he has produced 29
shows, 17 of which he created and produced. He
has a long list of credits covering Australian
institutions such as Celebrity Big Brother, Blind
Date, Perfect Match, Burgo's Catchprase and a
host of others.
According
to Boughen, "Australian Television is going
through a period of change and rationalisation
and as producers we need to recognise this and
move with the times. We need to create and license
projects, which are innovative, exciting, that
rate and which have the potential to generate
revenue through technology and new media. This
is an exciting time to be developing programs.
"I
am delighted to be joining The Ambience Entertainment
Group and Harbourside Pictures to form this new
production company as I believe the new venture
is focused on the future and will embrace these
exciting opportunities. My partners and myself
can claim a unique range of television and business
experience and we look forward to announcing our
first projects in the near future".
Harbourside
Pictures' Bryan Lowe has a background in UK television
with Granada, Thames Television and the Virgin
group but most recently has worked in the
finance sector with the Nine Network creating
the Macquarie Nine Film and Television Fund in
2002 (which raised Aus$23million). Prior to that
he shared a joint venture with Macquarie Bank
where as Chief Executive he created the "FLIC"
fund, Macquarie Film Corporation which raised
AUD$16 million and invested in seven films including
Crackerjack , Dirty Deeds and The Wannabes.
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