{"id":2336462,"date":"2026-03-19T08:49:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2336462"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:49:36","slug":"former-buccaneer-cineflix-execs-launch-drama-outfit-high-road-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/former-buccaneer-cineflix-execs-launch-drama-outfit-high-road-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Buccaneer &#038; Cineflix Execs Launch Drama Outfit High Road Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Former Buccaneer co-CEO Richard Tulk-Hart and former Cineflix Head of Scripted TV James Durie are taking the High Road. The pair have joined forces to launch High Road Entertainment, a new co-production and sales consultancy for the drama biz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is already working on projects including Greek-set crime series <em>Antiparos<\/em> in partnership with Tanweer Productions and Connor Swindells\u2019 comedy drama <em>Shinjuku Sugar Fox<\/em> with Just John Films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tulk-Hart and Durie are seasoned drama execs. Having been colleagues at Miramax, Tulk-Hart went on to become CEO of Buccaneer and Durie Head of Scripted at Cineflix. In recent years they have worked together on series including <em>So Long, Marianne<\/em>, The<em> Doll Factory <\/em>and <em>Whitstable Pearl<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Their exec producer credits variously span shows such as <em>Sunny Nights<\/em>, <em>The Walsh Sisters<\/em> and <em>Marcella<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">High Road Entertainment will advise scripted producers across Europe on financing and distribution, while also developing its own slate of dramas. The entity was originally launched last summer by Tulk-Hart as Volteo Media, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/richard-tulk-hart-exits-marcella-152152512.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:per our story at the time;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;per our story at the time&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">per our story at the time<\/a>. Durie has now joined and will run the rebadged business with Tulk-Hart. The pair are co-CEOs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2018In this fractured market it really feels like there is space for a flexible dynamic approach to getting shows from IP to screen,\u201d the pair said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re here to join the dots and have done so on a number of shows already. There is no doubt we are in a difficult period for the industry and what we can do is navigate the key players through every step of the way and make sure a show is given its best chance of making it to screen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The High Road execs will be at drama confab Series Mania next week. 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The pair have joined forces to launch High Road Entertainment, a new co-production and sales consultancy for the drama biz. It is already working on projects including Greek-set crime series Antiparos in partnership with Tanweer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2336463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[452601,452599,452597,452598,452600],"class_list":["post-2336462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cineflix","tag-durie-head","tag-james-durie","tag-richard-tulk-hart","tag-tanweer-productions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Former-Buccaneer-Cineflix-Execs-Launch-Drama-Outfit-High-Road.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336464,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336462\/revisions\/2336464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}