Investment booms to meet TV Content demand

The continuing surge in funding demand for Content development for programming for the increasingly competitive rival groups of SVOD streaming companies that range from Netflix and Amazon to Apple, Disney and Warner Media is bringing more private equity into television and film

Of the increasingly voracious groups of buyers, it’s the private equity (PE) outfits,  returning to TV in a big way, that have become particularly active over recent months looking to meet the funding demand for Content development

“PE firms haven’t really been focused on TV for a decade,” explains LA-based Thomas Dey, CEO and president at ACF Investment Bank

Tom Manwaring, partner at Helion Partners, says several reasons are driving PE interest, not least the fact they have “more funds than ever which they need to invest and have noticed the growth of the marketplace driven by streamers, including the demands for scripted but also unscripted”