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GammaTime and COL Group commit to four original microseries
Event Summary
GammaTime and COL Group International have committed to co-finance and co-produce four original microseries, starting with the licensing of FlareFlow title She Means Justice and a sequel.
Verified Facts
- Episode Magazine reports that GammaTime, founded by former Miramax CEO Bill Block, entered a strategic partnership with COL Group International. The partners committed to four original microseries: licensing the existing FlareFlow series She Means Justice, co-producing a sequel, and developing three additional co-productions. FlareFlow CEO James Wang described the collaboration as combining Hollywood genre craftsmanship with FlareFlow's distribution network and audience data.
Deal Board Interpretation
The deal gives GammaTime a concrete initial slate and gives COL Group an explicit U.S.-facing production partner. It indicates that vertical platforms are using joint development and financing structures—not only licensing finished libraries—to build globally scalable original series.
This is analysis, not verified fact.
Why It Matters
The partnership pairs GammaTime's Hollywood-facing development ambitions with COL Group's FlareFlow library, distribution and audience data—an explicit four-title commitment rather than a one-off vertical-drama license.
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Source tier: Tier 2Last verified: 2026-07-22