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<\/p>\nArgonon, the multinational production group behind The Masked Singer UK and The Lost Music of Auschwitz, is up for sale, Broadcast has learned.<\/p>\n
An information memorandum (IM) has already been circulated to potential international buyers, with UK M&A specialist ABP Advisory handling the sales process.<\/p>\n
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London-headquartered Argonon operates across a broad range of genres via its indies in the UK and US, with hubs in London, Glasgow, New York, Oklahoma and LA.<\/p>\n
Its labels comprise Bandicoot TV (The Masked Singer), Windfall Films (Naked History), BriteSpark Films (Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck, When Death Comes Knocking), Like A Shot Entertainment (Abandoned Engineering) and Leopard Pictures (Wurzel Gummidge) in the UK and\u00a0Leopard USA and Rose Rock in North America.\u00a0Argonon programming has generated 160 awards domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n
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The 14-year-old group, founded by chief exec James Burstall in 2011, has a catalogue of around 4,000 hours and produces around 200 hours fresh content across premium factual, long-running returning factual, formats and scripted per year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Argonon\u2019s US labels have myriad high-profile series and returning franchises such as HGTV stalwart House Hunters International (Leopard USA) and A&E\u2019s The Mother Flip (Rose Rock).\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is understood the indie group has already generated strong interest from buyers in North America and Europe.<\/p>\n
ABP Advisory, run by ACF alum Hasham Khan, has been an active dealmaker in 2025, brokering ITV Studios\u2019 acquisition of Spanish scripted powerhouse Plano a Plano<\/a> over the summer and Avalon\u2019s investment in It\u2019s All Made Up Productions<\/a> and BBC Studios\u2019 acquisition of a minority stake in Samphire Films<\/a> earlier in the year.<\/p>\n Argonon and ABP Advisory declined to comment on the story when approached by Broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argonon, the multinational production group behind The Masked Singer UK and The Lost Music of Auschwitz, is up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-76092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}