Zinc Media Group plc announced it has won its ever USA television series with the working title, Top Gun: The Next Generation, worth approximately $9 million of revenue to the Group. Top Gun: The Next Generation., is a series which follows the U.S. Navy pilots as they work to join the next generation of the Navy's most elite strike fighter force. With unprecedented access to one of the U.S. Navy's most demanding training and selection program mes, the series follows a group of officers as they push their limits on the grueling Advanced Flight Training Program me.

For the first time ever they will be embarking on some of the most challenging flight tests possible including landing on an aircraft carrier at sea. The elite nature of the course means that only a minority - the very best - will make it to the top and fly the world's most advanced jet - the F-35C Lightning II. The series is due to be filmed towards the end of fiscal23 and throughout fiscal 24, with final delivery in fiscal 25 and is being produced for National Geographic Channel, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the National Geographic Society, and includes direct to consumer platforms Disney+ and Hulu.

It will be produced by REX TV one of Zinc's newest television production companies which was launched last year, and post produced by Zinc's Bumblebee Post Production.