The cofounder of the maker of hit shows including The Kardashians, the Friends reunion special and documentary series Sunderland ‘Til I Die has said that the north-east has been “utterly forgotten” amid the UK’s multibillion-pound TV and film production boom, and called on the government to back plans for a proposed new Hollywood-style studio complex in the region.
Leo Pearlman, a cofounder of production company Fulwell 73 which has partners including the actor and comedian James Corden, said that the region was a “black hole” that should be the focus of levelling up in the film and TV industry through the building of a vast production complex in Sunderland that would create 8,500 jobs.
