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History exec returns to Discovery fold for development role
History exec Sean Boyle is to return to Discovery as senior VP of development. The…
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Optomen taps Live PD producer for development
All3Media’s Optomen Productions has tapped Live PD producer and Big Fish exec George McTeague as…
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BBCW’s Tracy Forsyth lands at WFTV
Former BBC Worldwide exec Tracy Forsyth has landed at UK industry organization Women in Film…
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Fox hires AMC president as entertainment boss
Fox has appointed AMC president and GM Charlie Collier as its entertainment boss. Collier, who…
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Facebook names Nick Clegg as its global affairs chief
Facebook has hired the UK’s former deputy prime minister as the head of global affairs…
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Iacono exits Lionsgate Int’l, Kapouranis takes over
Lionsgate International television and distribution president Peter Iacono is to depart the company, with Agapy…
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CBS names Showtime boss as its creative chief
Showtime boss David Nevins has been named chief creative officer at CBS Corporation, effective immediately….
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Red Arrow’s Pabst joins ProSiebenSat.1’s entertainment division
Red Arrow Studios International president Henrik Pabst has been promoted to a newly created senior…
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MIPCOM: 9 Story rejigs int’l and creative affairs teams
9 Story Media Group has reshuffled its creative affairs and international distribution teams under the…
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Endeavor invests in first UK scripted prodco
Endeavor Content is backing a new scripted production business helmed by Channel 4 drama boss…
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AMC Networks hires first international president
AMC Networks has promoted Eduardo Zulueta to the newly-created position of president of AMC Networks…
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A+E promotes Heather Jones for EMEA
A+E Networks has upped general manager for A+E Networks UK, Heather Jones, to senior VP…
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Blue Ant restructures North American operations to boost production
Blue Ant Media has restructured its North American division in a bid to strengthen its…
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Disney, Fox execs reshuffle ahead of merger
Disney has confirmed the Fox TV execs set to transition into the business after its…
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Kew Media Distribution appoints business development VP
Kew Media Distribution has hired Graham Begg to oversee business development and producer relations. The…
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Woodcut taps A+E’s Anastasi for strategy role
Kate Beal’s Woodcut Media has hired former A+E Networks UK channel director Koulla Anastasi as…
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BBC Studios adds development duo for entertainment
BBC Studios has appointed Joe Evans (pictured, right) as creative director of development and Eddie…
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Ian Lamarra returns to Alaska TV
Alaska TV co-founder Ian Lamarra has returned to the business as it expands with a…
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eOne inks first-look deal with Will.i.am
Entertainment One (eOne) has signed a first-look deal with will.i.am, the musician and producer, that…
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Karga Seven appoints CEO of Turkish business
Red Arrow Studios-owned producer Karga Seven has appointed Ömer Özgüner as CEO of its production…
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‘New Fox’ reveals key leadership team
Lachlan Murdoch, the future chairman and CEO of Fox after Disney purchases key assets from…
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AMC Networks International’s Moriarty to depart
Mike Moriarty, AMC Networks International (AMCNI) president Central & Northern Europe, is leaving the company….
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Australian gov’t appoints ABC acting chair
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has appointed Dr Kirstin Ferguson as acting chair of ABC…
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Endemol Shine’s Asia MD lands at The Story Lab
Endemol Shine’s former Asia MD Fotini Paraskakis has joined The Story Lab as executive VP…
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Media Ranch appoints content head for creative push
Canadian producer-distributor Media Ranch has hired a head of content and storytelling to lead its…
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UK indies: ITV backs new indie, Endemol expands Zeppotron
Men Behaving Badly scribe Simon Nye and Tiger Aspect MD Sophie Clarke-Jervoise (pictured) have teamed to…
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ABC Australia exec joins Matchbox Pictures as MD
NBCUniversal-owned Safe Harbour producer Matchbox Pictures has appointed ABC Australia exec Alastair McKinnon (pictured, right)…
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Sharon Horgan’s Merman launches digital arm
Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman is to launch a digitally focused arm named Mermade….
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NBC Entertainment appoints new chairs
NBC has appointed Paul Telegdy (pictured, left) and George Cheeks (right) as co-chairmen of its…
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Netflix partners with Daredevil showrunner for Brazilian original
Netflix has partnered with the showrunner behind Marvel’s Daredevil, Douglas Petrie, for new Brazilian original,…