Zinc Media Group plc (LON: ZIN), the award-winning television, brand and audio production group, has announced that it has won its largest ever USA television series with the working title, Top Gun: The Next Generation, worth approximately $9m of revenue to the Group.
Top Gun: The Next Generation, is a series which follows the world-class U.S. Navy pilots as they work to join the next generation of the Navy’s most elite strike fighter force. With unprecedented access to one of the U.S. Navy’s most demanding training and selection programmes, the series follows a group of officers as they push their limits on the grueling Advanced Flight Training Programme. For the first time ever they will be embarking on some of the most challenging flight tests possible including landing on an aircraft carrier at sea. The elite nature of the course means that only a minority – the very best – will make it to the top and fly the world’s most advanced jet – the F-35C Lightning II.
The series is due to be filmed towards the end of FY23 and throughout FY24, with final delivery in FY25 and is being produced for National Geographic Channel, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the National Geographic Society, and includes direct to consumer platforms Disney+ and Hulu.
It will be produced by REX TV one of Zinc’s newest television production companies which was launched last year, and post produced by Zinc’s Bumblebee Post Production.
Mark Browning, Chief Executive Officer, Zinc Media Group, says:
“This is an outstanding new series which comes with the most exclusive access that Zinc has secured. We have earned the trust of the U.S. Navy because of our global reputation for the highest quality television production. This commission will have worldwide appeal and will deliver exhilarating, adrenaline-fuelled television. We are extremely proud of our team’s hard work and persistence in securing this significant contract win.”
