Fennessys on decision to stay: ‘We decided to jump off but then had fresh conversation’
Brothers Mark and Carl Fennessy, joint CEOs of the combined Endemol Shine production company have spoken for the first time about why they announced they were departing and then later changed their minds.
Carl and Mark Fennessy
Speaking at the Screen Forever conference in Melbourne Mark Fennesy said: “There is not any great mystical story about it. We were coming to the conclusion of our contracts at Shine so we had a bunch of discussions with management in UK they were all very amicable.
“We were considering what road we were going to go down and we just didn’t get there… we decided to jump off but then over the next six to eight weeks we were in continual contact with them and we had a fresh conversation and to be honest it was pretty easy and we just kind of got there.”
Awesome to see that Endemol Shine take unsolicted ideas on their web site. That’s a sign of a progressive production company. Most of the others are so paranoid about being sued by writers they clam up like, clams, when writers approach with ideas.
Mark and Carl – please ask your commisioning editor about my latest batch of ideas:)
‘…..we had a fresh conversation and to be honest it was pretty easy and we just kind of got there.’
Yep in other words ‘ we were going to leave but they threw a shedload of cash at us so …..we decided to stay & buy a small holiday house in Tuscany.’
Truth is there somewhere.
Good luck to them both – very talented blokes.