EXCLUSIVE: Adam Barth has left his role as Director of Co-Productions, Development and Acquisitions at European distributor Eccho Rights and its parent Night Train Media.
We’ve got word of the news less than a week ahead of MIPCOM Cannes, where Eccho Rights will be shopping Safe Harbor, the buzzy crime drama from Ozark co-creator Mark Williams. Barth will remain as an exec producer on the show.
Barth has been with Eccho Rights since 2021, having joined after exiting NENT Studios UK (aka DRG), where he was SVP for EMEA. Further back, he worked at New Media Vision, acting as an executive producer on international formats adaptations of shows such as NBC procedural Mysteries of Laura.
Eccho confirmed his departure to Deadline this week.
At Eccho, he has worked on shows such as Sundance and Virgin Media drama Vanishing Triangle and BBC drama Granite Harbour. He has worked as an exec producer on Safe Harbor, which we first told you about in November last year.
The show, which is for streamers in The Netherlands and Belgium, follows a gifted hacker and his ambitious best friend, who are intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club. They are plucked from quiet obscurity and plunged headfirst into the chaos of organised crime when they cross paths with the Irish mob. Leading the family’s operations in Holland are Sloane (Murphy) and her brother Farrell (Gleeson), who enlist their services to hack into the security system of Rotterdam harbour — Europe’s largest shipping port — to secure undetected drug shipments. Alfie Allen, Jack Gleeson, Charlie Murphy, Martijn Lakemeier and Colm Meaney star.
There will be a screening of the show, which is from Williams’ Zero Gravity and Submarine, next week at MIPCOM. Stars from the series will be in attendance.
Eccho is part of Germany-based Night Train Media, which has become a major production, distribution and content financier out of Europe. Besides acquiring Eccho from CJ ENM in 2022, it has done deals for Chess Masters indie Curve Media and another UK-based distributor, BossaNova. It has upcoming shows including The Inheritance and The Ex-Wife Season 2, and is known as a key distributor of Turkish dramas.
