BBC Studios has restructured to combine its Productions and Content Partnerships businesses, bringing its units under the same roof as the indies it owns including Lookout Point, Clerkenwell Films …
The move is intended to strengthen the outfit’s commercial offering around the world, coming five years after it was given the greenlight to make shows for third party buyers.
Experienced Chief Creative Officer Mark Linsey, who previously looked after content partnerships, will become Managing Director, Scripted, overseeing four scripted units along with the drama indies owned by BBC Studios includings Clerkenwell Films, Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s House Productions and Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow.Linsey will also oversee the indies BBC Studios has a minority stake in, along with distribution relationships.
Tom McDonald will continue as Managing Director, Factual, to oversee the Documentary, Science and Natural History Units while newly appointed Managing Director for Children’s Cecilia Persson, a former WarnerMedia exec, will lead activity in that genre.
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