Prior to establishing TVTomorrow, Tim started his career in international television distribution at BBC Worldwide handling the Italian market, concluding natural history coproduction output deals with RAI for the David Attenborough landmark series, before moving to Warner Bros International Television where he spent 10 years responsible for sales to Central and Eastern Europe & Russia generating nearing $1 billion in revenue, with an MPA share amongst the 6 Hollywood Studios of consistently over 40%, representing over twice the average Warner Bros MPA share of 20% internationally. The ground-breaking deals were $130 million output deal with TVN Poland and $65 million 2 year deal in Russia with Channel Russia, NTV and CTC including the first two Harry Potter movies and Lord of the Rings movies at a record license fee of $1.5 million, which shattered the previous record by more than three times.
He then moved over to the buyer’s side as EVP of International Relations & Co-productions at Russia largest production Studio AMEDIA in Moscow for three years. Since then Tim has predominantly specialised in the new media during the last 15 years, launching VOD and SVOD services on different platforms in Europe. He spent 2 years as EVP of Acquisitions at Poland’s ITI Group in Warsaw, where Tim oversaw all rights acquisitions for the ITI Group including theatrical, VOD, Pay TV , SVOD and Free TV, acquiring the content to launch the Pay TV, VOD and SVOD services on the “n” Pay TV platform. The ground-breaking deals were an all rights deal with Paramount Pictures, including VOD, SVOD, Pay TV and Free TV; and as a pioneer in the SVOD world launching and negotiating the rights “n Serialy”, uniquely acquiring the premieres in the territory to the hit series Desperate Housewives, Lost, House, Heroes, Dexter, Californication, The Mentalist and Prison Break on an SVOD basis one week after US broadcast, this well before the launch of Netflix’s streaming service.
