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Amazon’s world scripted squad is bulking up.
The streamer has hired Oliver Jones, who has spent nan past six years astatine Apple, arsenic Senior Commissioner for UK Scripted.
The move was revealed by Nicole Clemens, VP, International Originals, successful a statement to staff.
Jones was antecedently Senior Creative Executive for International Scripted Television astatine Apple, wherever he oversaw English-language world arena series, non-English connection originals, co-productions, and acquisitions. These included Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, starring Kurt Russell, Masters of nan Air, from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, starring Austin Butler, Israeli spy bid Tehran and Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer.
Oliver will commencement successful May and will relocate from LA backmost to London.
Prior to Apple, he worked astatine Fremantle connected bid including The Mosquito Coast, Fellow Travelers, and American Gods, The Weinstein Company, wherever he worked connected Yellowstone and Imagine Television, wherever he worked connected Empire.
Amazon’s UK scripted slate includes bid specified arsenic Robin Wright’s The Girlfriend, Sophie Turner’s Steal, Harlan Coben’s Lazarus and Riz Ahmed’s Bait arsenic good arsenic upcoming bid including constabulary thriller Dirty from Matt Charman and an adjustment of Chloe Walsh’s Boys Of Tommen.
UK scripted commissioners Gemma Brandler and Punit Mattoo will study to Jones.
Clemens, successful her statement to nan Amazon MGM Studios International Originals team, said it had a “huge commitment” to nan UK.
“Oliver is simply a seasoned scripted executive pinch a proven way grounds successful processing premium world content,” she wrote. “This assignment underscores our continued finance successful world-class UK scripted programming arsenic we grow our slate for UK and world audiences.”
Jones added, “It has been a privilege to activity alongside my superb colleagues astatine Apple TV for nan past six years, and to collaborate pinch nan singular artists I was fortunate capable to activity with. It’s ever a reliable determination to time off a occupation I love, but nan clip is correct to travel backmost location and commencement a caller adventure. Amazon MGM Studios’ committedness and momentum successful telling ambitious, provocative, premium stories, together pinch nan standard of their accrued finance successful nan UK, intends it couldn’t beryllium a much breathtaking infinitesimal to beryllium joining Nicole and her phenomenal team.”
