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EXCLUSIVE: Nippon TV, nan Japanese broadcaster, is stepping up its unscripted business successful nan U.S. and has hired erstwhile ITV America exec Nick Ower to help.
Ower joins arsenic head of improvement and sales, unscripted. He joins aft astir 10 years astatine nan Love Island and Hell’s Kitchen producer.
He will study to Tom Miyauchi, Head of Nippon TV’s LA Business Office.
Ower has been tasked pinch driving nan company’s format strategy crossed North America and Latin America and will correspond Nippon TV and Gyokuro Studio’s unscripted catalogue to broadcasters, streamers, and accumulation partners crossed nan region.
The dream is that he will grow Nippon’s scope successful nan States and Gyokuro Studio’s original development, moving pinch partners.
Gyokuro Studios, which is Nippon’s inhouse studio, is down formats specified arsenic societal research Majority Rules, family crippled show The Balance and culinary title show Cooking Rush!.
Ower was Director of Development astatine ITV Entertainment, which is besides down Queer Eye and The Chase. He worked connected bid specified arsenic Peacock’s Love Island Games and Love Island: Beyond nan Villa, Prime Video’s Twin Love, HBO Max’s My Mom, Your Dad, OWN’s Four Weddings and Netflix characteristic doc Longest Third Date.
“We are delighted to invited Nick to Nippon TV LA arsenic we grow and build connected our footprint successful nan Americas. He brings a proven way grounds and a wealthiness of acquisition successful unscripted development, alongside a beardown knowing of nan North American marketplace and fantabulous imaginative instincts, making him a valuable summation to our increasing world strategies. Nick will play a cardinal domiciled successful strengthening our improvement pipeline and deepening our partnerships crossed nan region, arsenic we proceed to broaden our beingness successful nan world market,” said Miyauchi.
Ower added, “Joining Nippon TV LA astatine specified a pivotal shape of its world description is an unthinkable opportunity. I’ve agelong admired nan company’s estimation for bold, inventive storytelling, and location is an undeniable world appetite for nan benignant of fresh, high-concept intermezo that Nippon TV and Gyokuro Studio excel at. By combining Nippon TV’s chopped imaginative tone pinch a crisp attraction connected world scalability, I look guardant to moving pinch partners crossed nan Americas to create high-impact contented designed to resonate pinch audiences worldwide.”
