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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Genre | Religious |
| Founded | November 12, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-12) in California, U.S. |
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| Headquarters | Los Angeles,CA, United States |
Key people | Roma Downey (president) |
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| Parent | United Artists Media Group (2014–15) MGM Television (2015–24) Amazon MGM Studios (2023–present) |
| Website | lightworkers |
Lightworkers Media is an American independentChristian media andfilmproduction company founded by PresidentRoma Downey and her husbandMark Burnett and owned byAmazon MGM Studios.
LightWorkers Media produced theEmmy-nominatedThe Bible on theHistory channel as well asA.D. The Bible Continues on NBC,The Dovekeepers on CBS[1] (based on the novel byAlice Hoffman),Women of the Bible on Lifetime, and Answered Prayers on TLC. They also produced the feature filmsBen-Hur,Son of God,Little Boy,[1]Woodlawn andOn a Wing and a Prayer.
Lightworkers Media was formed byMark Burnett andRoma Downey with a partial stake held byHearst Corporation, which owned a stake in Burnett's One Three Media.[1] One of its first productions wasThe Bible forHistory, premiered in early 2013.[2]
On September 22, 2014, MGM acquired a 55% stake in Lightworkers Media and One Three Media and consolidated the two companies into MGM's new TV production unit, United Artists Media Group, with Burnett as CEO.[1] On December 14, 2015, MGM announced that it had acquired the remaining stakes in UAMG in a stock and cash deal, and that Burnett would become the new CEO ofMGM Television, replacing the outgoing presidentRoma Khanna.[3]
With MGM purchasing out of Hearst and Burnett and Downey's shares in UAMG, a channel in the works was still a planned streaming service. However, Hearst and Burnett and Downey retained their stakes in the channel.[4] MGM announced the formation ofLight TV on November 16, 2016, with a launch planned for December on thirteenFox TV stations.[5]
The series is the first project together from husband and wife producing team Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.[6] In addition to Burnett and Downey, executive producers include Richard Bedser and History's Dirk Hoogstra and Julian P. Hobbs.[7] The first episode of the mini-series was seen by 13.1 million viewers, the largest cable television audience of 2013 to date.[8] The finale delivered 11.7 million total viewers.[9]
The Bible shattered sales records in its first week of home video release, selling 525,000 units to become the top-selling TV miniseries of all time.[10] In total, with subsequent airings, 'The Bible' has been seen by more than 95 million viewers.[11]
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