Sky has restructured its content material crew within the UK following the exit of Zai Bennett.
Meghan Lyvers has been promoted to Govt Director of Authentic Scripted and Phil Edgar-Jones has change into Govt Director of Authentic Unscripted. In the meantime, Poppy Dixon, the highly-rated docs chief, has been upped to Director of Documentaries & Factual.
There have additionally been numerous different modifications to the groups beneath Cecile Frot-Coutaz.
As a part of his remit as Govt Director, Content material Technique & Efficiency, liable for our platform and channel efficiency, Jamie Morris may also tackle duty for compliance groups led by Elizabeth Rowlands, Director of Content material Compliance and Coverage in addition to commissioning of Sky Children Originals led by Lucy Murphy, Director of Children Content material, UK&I. Helen Northrop, Director of Business Affairs for unscripted output, will now report back to Caroline Cooper who will broaden her remit to incorporate Content material, as COO Sky Studios and Content material.
All enterprise affairs, manufacturing administration , programs and operations, and worldwide financing exercise throughout scripted and unscripted shall be beneath a unified management. Katie Keenan, Group Director of Acquisitions will now report back to Frot Coutaz.
The information was set out in a be aware from Frot Coutaz to workers this morning.
It comes after numerous exits together with Bennett, who’s quickly transferring to BBC Studios to run its productions arm, and Stephen van Rooyen, who left his function as Sky UK and Eire CEO. Final week, Sky employed Priscilla Parish to go up drama.
Upcoming for Sky Studios the likes of its Day of the Jackal adaptation and Matt Smith-starrer The Demise of Bunny Munro.
