Murdoch hands out rewards

Executives at Shine Group, the TV production company owned by Elisabeth Murdoch, have been awarded shares worth a total of more than £2m, according to documents filed at Companies House. Sebastian Scott and Henrietta Conrad each received 6,717 shares - worth nearly £930,000 - in Shine, whose programmes include Masterchef The two were joint managing directors of Princess Productions, which was acquired by Shine in December 2006, at around the same time it bought two other independent companies: documentary maker Firefly Productions and Kudos, which makes hit shows including Spooks and Life on Mars. Princess produces The Sunday Night Project and The Wright Stuff. Firefly founders Nick Curwin and Magnus Temple each received 1,157 shares, worth just over £160,000. Shine also agreed to acquire US production company Reveille at the... [read full story]