Liz Murdoch and Jane Featherstone's Sister Group has taken a minority stake in brands and advertising specialist Common Interest. The two organizations have agreed a strategic partnership and are already working together. Founded by Anthony Freedman, agencies including Amplify, 21st Century…

EXCLUSIVE: Sister Group is entering its “next phase” after turning a profit for the first time in six years. Chris Fry, CFO at the Black Doves and The Woman in Cabin 10 producer, told Deadline Sister “refocused on our strengths” in 2025 after shutting down its U.S. hub, and is now looking to…

EXCLUSIVE: The delivery of big-budget projects including The Power and Dan Levy movie Good Grief led Sister to double turnover in 2023 to $264M, although profit remained stubbornly in the red. Jane Featherstone and Liz Murdoch’s company put record revenue down to “the realization of pipeline…

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Featherstone and Liz Murdoch’s Sister has invested in Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media. The Chernobyl and This is Going to Hurt producer took an undisclosed minority stake in Unanimous Media Holdings in June, Deadline understands. Both companies declined to comment on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Featherstone and Liz Murdoch’s Sister saw revenues skyrocket by $100M last year, although the This is Going to Hurt and Chernobyl producer failed again to turn a profit. The transatlantic outfit’s turnover grew by a mammoth 273% to $134M for full-year 2022, according to a…

Former Netflix TV boss Cindy Holland has joined Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone’s Sister as Global CEO. Holland, who spent nearly two decades at Netflix, replaces Stacey Snider, who departed earlier this year. Sister Co-Founder Murdoch called Holland a “transformational leader in…

Rupert Murdoch is all over Twitter. (“My family are horrified that I’m on it,” he says.) But in agreeing to sit down for a broad interview with Fortune, one of the media industry’s most powerful moguls signals that he’s finally ready to return in a serious way to the public stage that he has largely abandoned as…

The promotion was confirmed today by Shine's founder Elisabeth Murdoch who has served as both Chairman and CEO since the company's inception in 2001. Alex Mahon will assume full responsibility for day to day management of the 28 operating companies within Shine Group. Murdoch will continue as Group Chairman…

Sky in late July announced its fall original TV line-up. New comedy shows include Gates, script-edited by Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous); Starlings, executive produced by Steve Coogan; and Spy, starring Brit TV mainstay Robert Lindsay about a father and son who are both secret agents. Fall dramas include…

How's this for a nice windfall? Shine has paid staff a flat bonus of £10,000 ($16,380), having finalized the £415 million takeover deal by News Corp. This is according to TV trade Television Business International. The flat bonus was paid last week to all permanent staff who had been at the TV production and…

American investors are suing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. over its decision to buy his daughter's TV company Shine, claiming it is such a poor deal they are "paying for nepotism." New York-based Amalgamated Bank, representing several funds that hold 1 million shares, and the Central Laborers Pension Fund of…

BSkyB paid Liz Murdoch's Shine Group £6 million ($9.3 million) for programming last year, the company said in its annual report. That is 40% less than the £10 million it paid Murdoch, sister of non-executive chairman James Murdoch, and her Shine Group last year. Shows that Shine, the UK's biggest independent TV…