Jay Hunt


Apple, Amazon talk up flexible deals

Apple’s creative director for Europe Jay Hunt and Amazon Studios’ director of European originals Georgia Brown have talked up their companies’ openness to flexible rights models, including considering coproductions. Hunt (pictured), who took up her position at Apple 18 months ago, is now working on commissions for the tech giant’s forthcoming streaming offering, selected details […]

Apple adds Oppenheimer to int’l content team

Apple has hired BBC Films veteran Joe Oppenheimer as a creative executive for its international team – led by former Channel 4 creative boss Jay Hunt. Oppenheimer becomes the second UK executive to join Apple’s TV ventures, after it hired Hunt as its European director of worldwide video. The new exec will be a London-based […]

Apple taps Sony for new Latin America head

Apple has hired Sony Pictures Television’s Angélica Guerra as its first head of Latin American programming at Apple Worldwide Video. Guerra will start next month and report to Morgan Wandell, Apple’s head of international creative development, who joined the company in October. The exec served as senior VP and managing director of production for Latin […]

Apple sets first official drama series

Apple has officially signed off on its first drama series, the long gestating scripted series starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston (pictured). The show will follow the staff and stars of a morning TV show in the States, and Apple has given it a straight-to-series, two-season order comprising 20 episodes. Reports in the US describe […]

Surprise choice for Channel 4 content chief

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has plumped for the surprise choice of Ian Katz, a news executive currently working at the BBC, as its director of programmes. Katz (pictured) effectively succeeds Jay Hunt, who was C4’s chief creative officer until exiting recently and joining Apple to run its original programming out of the UK. He will […]

Apple confirms ex-C4 exec Jay Hunt as Euro chief

Tech giant Apple has confirmed the hire of former Channel 4 content chief Jay Hunt, news TBI first reported on earlier this month. She has been named European creative director of worldwide video, a role that will see her commissioning original content from Europe. Apple has committed US$1 billion to content in a bid to […]

Jay Hunt linked with Apple post

Former Channel 4 content chief Jay Hunt is being linked with a role at Apple. According to sources, she has been in talks over an unspecified role at the tech giant’s London office. The story first emerged on The Airwaves news site. Hunt is known to be close to Apple original video chiefs Jamie Erlicht and […]

C4’s £75m Bake Off gamble pays off

UK broadcaster Channel 4’s gamble to pay £75 million (US$97 million) to grab The Great British Bake Off from the BBC has reaped early rewards. The first episode of C4’s new bakery competition series took an average 6.5 million viewers and a 30.4% share – its largest overnight audience since the Paralympics in 2012. The […]

C4’s Jay Hunt: SVOD model threatens copros

EDINBURGH: The outgoing Channel 4 chief Jay Hunt has questioned the SVOD rights model Netflix and Amazon are currently using. In her final controller session here at the Edinburgh International Television Festival before she leaves the UK terrestrial broadcaster, she told delegates that while the on-demand giants’ model was working, more difficult conversations were ahead […]

Betty hires Channel 4 exec after rejig

Bear Grylls: Mission Survive prodco Betty has hired Alex Menzies from UK broadcaster Channel 4 (C4) after last week’s news of a management rejig. Menzies has filled the chief creative officer post that was created when All3Media-owned Betty confirmed joint managing directors Matthew Littleford and Neil Smith were exiting, as TBI revealed at the time. […]

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