Exclusive | Who is the mysterious TVB buyer?
TLG’s founder and chief executive Alex Chow said he’s been eyeing TVB and been in contact with the broadcaster since 2007
The story has been updated with a response from a TVB spokesman.
TLG Movie & Entertainment Group, the unit of Beijing-based Top Legend Group, is founded and run by a Hong Kong native, Alex Chow.
A graduate of the University of California, Chow cut his teeth working in his family’s toymaking business before dabbling in cross-border trade between Hong Kong and mainland China, as well as in corporate finance.
He’d served as the “advisor of Greater China licensee” for Sony Pictures, Marvel Comics, with production credits for Sony’s first and second Spiderman movies, according to its website.
“As a Hong Kong local, I value the intellectual property of TVB,” with a trove of archival footage, movies and sitcoms that span nearly half a century in television broadcasting, Chow told the South China Morning Post in a phone interview in Hong Kong.
An acquisition of TVB or its library “isn’t a new idea,” Chow said, adding that he’d been in touch with the broadcaster’s senior management since 2007.
