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Another elder All3Media International exec is exiting pursuing nan Midsomer Murder seller’s merger pinch Banijay.
Jonathan Hughes is joining ITV Studios (ITVS) aft 10 years astatine All3Media International, and will return connected nan domiciled of Vice President, Germany and Benelux Sales. ITVS has besides promoted Louisa Forsyth to go Vice President, UK and Ireland Sales.
All3Media’s parent, RedBird IMI, and Banijay earlier this period completed their merger, creating nan world’s largest accumulation workplace extracurricular of nan U.S. majors. It besides brought together 2 awesome programme distribution businesses, pinch Banijay’s guidance having antecedently signalled they would look to make savings from nan unit.
The time aft nan merger completed, we were first pinch nan news All3Media International’s long-serving CEO, Louise Pedersen, was exiting nan merged division, which will beryllium known arsenic Banijay Rights. Cathy Payne, Banijay’s income boss, is starring nan portion arsenic Chief Exec.
There person been different elder exec exits, pinch All3 COO Sara Geater and Group Director of Corporate Development Steven Brown leaving. UK waste and acquisition Broadcast reported Banijay CEO and Executive Director Patrick Holland is expected to return complete nan UK business, which will comprise 65 accumulation houses.
Hughes was All3Media International’s income lead successful German-speaking Europe, France and Benelux, shopping nan likes of Midsomer Murders, All Creatures Great and Small, and Fleabag. He is credited pinch expanding All3Media’s German co-production footprint, securing pivotal deals for Van Der Valk, The Assassin, The Tourist, Boarders, and Generation Z, and oversaw format launches for The Traitors, Race Across nan World, and Gogglebox.
Prior to that, Hughes spent 8 years arsenic Sales Manager astatine actual master Optomen International, whose parent, Optomen, was acquired by All3 successful 2010 for £40M ($53.7M).
His caller employer, ITVS, has besides upped Forsyth to lead UK and Ireland income from her erstwhile domiciled arsenic Vice President of Global Content, Scripted. She has been pinch nan institution since 2018, having antecedently worked astatine Sky, which is now group to get ITVS’s genitor ITV.
Hughes and Forsyth will some study to Jemma Harvey, ITVS’s EVP, EMEA & UK Sales and Distribution.
The appointments travel a spate of hires successful ITVS’s unscripted team, namely Zack Wallace, Director, Unscripted, US & LATAM; Eliana Barbosa, Senior Sales Manager, Unscripted, Italy, Iberia, and CEE; and Ben Nohr, Sales Manager, Unscripted, France and Germany; pinch Lucy Pryke promoted from Sales Executive, Nordics, to Sales Manager, Unscripted, Nordics and Benelux.
