Warner Bros TV partners with Betoota Advocate
Heavyweight production company partners with satirical website for a slate of unscripted new titles.
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Satirical website The Betoota Advocate is getting its own TV projects through Warner Bros. Australia.
Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia (The Bachelor, The Masked Singer, Dancing with the Stars, Who Do You Think You Are?, Love Me) and “Australia’s oldest newspaper” (not really) The Betoota Advocate, have joined forces on a slate of premium, unscripted productions aimed at both the domestic and international market.
It isn’t clear if the projects are light entertainment, reality, factual or a combination, nor how many separate projects are in development. But owners Diamantina Media are a podcast publisher with titles including Chat 10 Looks 3 with Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb, Mr A+ with Michael Theo, Beyond the Likes with Amy Gerard, and of course The Betoota Advocate.
Michael Brooks, Managing Director of WBITVP Australia, said: “With its distinct, bitingly satirical and smart approach to content, The Betoota Advocate has won a huge following. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. – with its storied TV production experience and international reach – is perfectly positioned to elevate this voice, and we’ll work together to develop premium unscripted television series with local and global appeal.”
Antony Stockdale, Director – DM Podcast, said: “We are thrilled to be working with an organisation as successful and experienced as Warner Bros. WB are the ideal partner to guide us and ensure the voice and tone beloved by fans of The Betoota Advocate translates to TV.”
Titles and broadcasters are yet to be announced.
The Betoota Advocate is Australia’s most popular satirical news publisher, reaching four million highly engaged and passionate readers every month. They turn to Betoota to make sense of our ever-changing world. Australia’s longest-running independent newspaper, it went digital in 2014 to become one of the most influential portals in the country with prime ministers and movie stars lining up to be interviewed. The Betoota Advocate empire includes multiple very popular podcasts, bestselling books, and the world-famous beer, Betoota Bitter.