Munich's Autentic Buys Gedeon Assets and Launches Gedeon Studios in Paris
Autentic, the Munich-based production and distribution company, has bought the assets of Gedeon Media Group (GMG), a French producer that had been wound up by the courts. The deal, reported on 12 November 2026, keeps Gedeon's shows, catalogue and staff working under a new name.
GMG was placed in judicial liquidation by a French Commercial Court after running into financial difficulties. Liquidation is a court-supervised process in which a company's affairs are wound up, usually with its assets sold to pay its debts. Gedeon was placed in liquidation in August, and its programme units were allowed to keep trading while a buyer was sought. GMG's sales arm, Terranoa, shut straight away.
The purchase includes the Gedeon Programmes, Docland Yard and MC4 units. Gedeon Programmes was created in 1996, and the company says it has won more than 500 international awards for its documentaries. According to Deadline, Autentic's new Paris-based subsidiary, Gedeon Studios, will be a French production and distribution business.
For the audience, the practical changes sit behind the scenes. GMG's catalogue of around 3,000 hours of programmes will move into Autentic Distribution, which sells finished programmes to broadcasters and streaming services around the world. GMG's digital channels division will go into Autentic's channel management unit, which looks after the company's channels.
Gedeon Studios will oversee every production GMG had under way. Around 25 hours of television is currently in production, and the studio will also look after two feature-length documentaries. It will handle project development too, meaning the early stage of finding and shaping new ideas before anything is filmed.
Staffing is the part that matters most to the people doing the work. A team of seven from the existing GMG organisation will join Gedeon Studios. Senior producers Laurence Favreau, Valérie Guerin and Coraline Roch are among them, along with Head of Development Mina Cuche. Carine Nonnenmacher, a senior producer at GMG, will lead the new studio.
Stéphane Millière, who founded GMG and was its President, will stay involved as Senior Consultant, Programme Development. Patrick Hoerl is Managing Director at Autentic.
The announcement does not give a price for the assets, and it does not say how many people were employed by GMG before the liquidation. What it does show is a company trying to keep unfinished shows moving, with the same producers and the same development team still in place.
