Thierry Cassuto (born 29 April 1959, in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, in France)
is a film and television producer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He
studied at Universit de la Sorbonne in Paris and at Boston University,
where he graduated with a Master of Science in Broadcasting.He is best
known as the Executive Producer and co-creator with Zapiro of ZANEWS,
the South African web and television satirical news puppet show
loosely inspired by the cult British Spitting Image and French
Guignols de l'info. Cassuto pitched the idea to South African
broadcasters right after moving to South Africa from France in 1998
but kept on hearing that the country was "not ready" for satire. In
2008 he managed to convince the SABC to commission a 26-minute pilot
but again the public broadcaster's management decided that the "people
were not ready for this" and quickly banned it. In October 2009, with
the help of kulula.com and the Mail & Guardian, Thierry Cassuto and
Zapiro finally launched the show online., and in 2011 found a home for
their show on television on satellite platform TopTV.He is also the
producer of the US adaptation of the show currently in development
under the title Puppet Nation USA Before moving to South Africa in
1998, Cassuto founded the arts and entertainment French TV channel
Paris Premire and participated in the launch of the French terrestrial
channel M6 where he started a slate of award-winning magazine
programmes including Culture Pub and Capital. With partners Gdon, he
went on to create television production company TVTV (for "Tout Va Trs
Vite"), which was later acquired by AB Groupe.
is a film and television producer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He
studied at Universit de la Sorbonne in Paris and at Boston University,
where he graduated with a Master of Science in Broadcasting.He is best
known as the Executive Producer and co-creator with Zapiro of ZANEWS,
the South African web and television satirical news puppet show
loosely inspired by the cult British Spitting Image and French
Guignols de l'info. Cassuto pitched the idea to South African
broadcasters right after moving to South Africa from France in 1998
but kept on hearing that the country was "not ready" for satire. In
2008 he managed to convince the SABC to commission a 26-minute pilot
but again the public broadcaster's management decided that the "people
were not ready for this" and quickly banned it. In October 2009, with
the help of kulula.com and the Mail & Guardian, Thierry Cassuto and
Zapiro finally launched the show online., and in 2011 found a home for
their show on television on satellite platform TopTV.He is also the
producer of the US adaptation of the show currently in development
under the title Puppet Nation USA Before moving to South Africa in
1998, Cassuto founded the arts and entertainment French TV channel
Paris Premire and participated in the launch of the French terrestrial
channel M6 where he started a slate of award-winning magazine
programmes including Culture Pub and Capital. With partners Gdon, he
went on to create television production company TVTV (for "Tout Va Trs
Vite"), which was later acquired by AB Groupe.
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