EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Rights has employed Sarah Mottershead from StudioCanal TV for its EMEA workforce.
Mottershead has been appointed VP, Center East, Africa, Israel, Greece & Cyprus, primarily based out of London. This can put her accountable for technique for the MasterChef and Peaky Blinders distributor in these territories.
At present within the position is Robin Pollok, who we hear is exiting Banijay Rights on the finish of the 12 months.
At StudioCanal, she was VP, TV Sequence Gross sales, overseeing distribution in Central & Jap Europe, the CIS area, Africa and Asia. She has additionally held roles at Shine Worldwide, whose belongings are actually a part of Banijay Rights, and Fremantle.
Mottershead will report back to Banijay Rights’ EVP, EMEA Gross sales and Acquisitions, Claire Jago, who known as her “an skilled tv government with a wealth of information” who can be “an enormous asset to Banijay Rights in these pivotal markets.”
Mottershead is the most recent recruit to the Banijay Rights secure. Earlier this 12 months, it employed former BBC Worldwide director Isabelle Helle as SVP German-Talking Territories and Poland, changing Veronique Verges. On the advertising and marketing and comms entrance, it added former Ardour Distribution exec Claire Douglas as a part of a rejig.
Banijay Rights’ catalog consists of Survivor, Large Brother, MasterChef, Peaky Blinders, Rogue Heroes, Marie Antoinette, Grantchester, Mr Bean and Black Mirror. At MIPCOM, it offered rags-to-riches drama sequence The Hardacres to a number of territories, as CEO Cathy Payne advised Deadline that “grappling with how one can fund scripted.”
“Banijay Rights’ huge catalogue of actually stand-out programming is famend throughout the worldwide content material trade so I’m past proud to hitch this unbelievable workforce and work throughout these necessary territories,” stated Mottershead.
Banijay Rights father or mother Banijay Leisure final week posted gross sales of €688.9M ($743.6M), down 3.5% from €713.6M in Q3 final 12 months. Banijay Group’s whole income elevated 8.9% to €3.1B within the first 9 months of the 12 months, due to 44% progress in its sports activities betting and gaming enterprise. Adjusted EBITDA rose 15.3% to €546M.
