Sky has restructured its content material workforce within the UK following the exit of Zai Bennett.
Meghan Lyvers has been promoted to Govt Director of Unique Scripted and Phil Edgar-Jones has turn into Govt Director of Unique Unscripted. In the meantime, Poppy Dixon, the highly-rated docs chief, has been upped to Director of Documentaries & Factual.
There have additionally been quite a lot of different adjustments to the groups underneath Cecile Frot-Coutaz.
As a part of his remit as Govt Director, Content material Technique & Efficiency, accountable for our platform and channel efficiency, Jamie Morris will even tackle accountability for compliance groups led by Elizabeth Rowlands, Director of Content material Compliance and Coverage in addition to commissioning of Sky Youngsters Originals led by Lucy Murphy, Director of Youngsters Content material, UK&I. Helen Northrop, Director of Industrial Affairs for unscripted output, will now report back to Caroline Cooper who will increase her remit to incorporate Content material, as COO Sky Studios and Content material.
All enterprise affairs, manufacturing administration , methods and operations, and worldwide financing exercise throughout scripted and unscripted will likely be underneath a unified management. Katie Keenan, Group Director of Acquisitions will now report back to Frot Coutaz.
The information was set out in a word from Frot Coutaz to employees this morning.
It comes after quite a lot of 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 Loss of life of Bunny Munro.
