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EXCLUSIVE: After astir a decade astatine Apple TV, Morgan Wandell is departing arsenic Head of International Development. He will stay focused connected nan increasing world tv marketplace pinch nan motorboat of his ain accumulation company, Kismet.
Based successful Los Angeles, Kismet will beryllium processing and producing premium scripted bid aimed astatine nan world marketplace by uncovering and nurturing projects and voices that tin recreation done high-end culturally rooted storytelling.
Wandell joined Apple successful October 2017, up of nan motorboat of Apple TV, to build its world slate. During his clip there, he oversaw tentpole Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which has spawned an upcoming spin-off starring Wyatt Russell, nan International Emmy-winning espionage thriller Tehran and drama Acapulco, Masters of nan Air from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer, and The New Look.
Following Wandell’s departure, Matt Cherniss, Apple TV’s Head of Programming and Domestic Development, will return complete nan Monarch franchise and different bid that were nether Wandell’s purview, adding them to his portfolio that includes specified hits arsenic Ted Lasso, Severance, The Studio and Pluribus.
Jay Hunt, Apple TV’s Creative Director, Europe, will grow her domiciled to oversee world and local-language originals. She is successful complaint of British staples Slow Horses and Hijack, among others.
As he is launching Kismet, Wandell is successful discussions pinch Apple to enactment connected arsenic a shaper connected immoderate of nan projects he had put together.
“Helping to build Apple TV’s world slate has been nan privilege of my career,” Wandell said. “I’m profoundly grateful to Jamie [Erlicht], Zack [Van Amburg], and each my colleagues astatine Apple, and to nan bonzer creators we’ve collaborated pinch astir nan world. It was a difficult individual determination to make this leap from a institution arsenic terrific arsenic Apple, but I person ever wanted to build a institution of my own.”
Added Wandell, “The opportunity to service arsenic an entrepreneur and shaper successful nan increasing achromatic abstraction for premium bid for nan world marketplace is 1 I couldn’t walk up and 1 that audiences are embracing.”
Prior to joining Apple, Wandell served arsenic Head a Drama for Amazon Studios and launched nan studio’s world improvement operation. He oversaw nan Emmy-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Goliath, and A Very English Scandal and breakout Indian originals The Family Man, Mirzapur, and Made in Heaven. He besides was progressive successful Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Man successful nan High Castle, and Bosch.
Earlier successful his career, arsenic SVP Drama astatine ABC Studios, Wandell shepherded specified bid as Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Brothers and Sisters, Ugly Betty and Criminal Minds.
