Iona Hopper

Title
Acquisitions Manager
Company
DCD Rights
Country (Address)
United Kingdom
Biography
Iona Hopper has been at DCD Rights for two years working with producers and partners globally to discover and develop programming that has international appeal in both factual and scripted. Recent dramas she has worked on include, Thou Shalt Not Steal (Stan), My Life is Murder (TVNZ/Acorn) and Hidden Assets (BBC/RTE/Acorn). In factual she has helped negotiate and acquire a tenth season of Aussie Gold Hunters, a new 6-part True Crime series for Channel 9 and A&E, and two celebrity led travel series for Channel 4: Sue Perkins’ Big Adventure and Bill Bailey’s Vietnam Adventure.

Prior to joining DCD Rights, Iona worked as a Drama Executive in the Global Drama team at Fremantle for five years working across scripted development and acquisitions as well as leading on marketing and events for the team. At the start of Iona’s career, she worked in content production and business affairs.
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Iona Hopper
What we're looking for from Ready, Steady, Pitch!
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We’re open to being pitched both drama and factual programming at various stages of development, financing, and production. At the top of our shopping list in the scripted space are returnable crime series driven by unforgettable characters, Thrillers always float our boat (think The Secrets She Keeps and Vanishing Act) and we love dramas with a lot of heart (for example crime-with-a-smile My Life is Murder, Comedy-drama Happiness or family drama Love Me).

In factual, we always have an appetite for high stakes character-led tough jobs / workplace reality (Aussie Gold Hunters and Brit Cops Down Under). True crime and unsolved mysteries with short runs work well for us too. We’d like travel programming with ‘familiar faces in unfamiliar places’ (think Sue Perkins Big Adventure: Paris to Istanbul and James Martin’s Spanish Adventure), as well as history with new discoveries (Treasures with Bettany Hughes). Please refer to our catalogue for more of our programming.