Exclusive: The race to replace Ralph Lee at the helm of BBC Studios Productions is underway, with the studio signaling its ambition by approaching some of the UK’s top unscripted executives.
Lee will step down as the CEO of BBC Studios Productions next month after a six-year stint to “pursue a new challenge” but Deadline is told that headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates is already scoping out successors.
The successful candidate will run a production unit that contributed heavily to BBC Studios’ £1.6B ($2B) content revenue last year, overseeing hits including Good Omens, Strictly Come Dancing, and David Attenborough’s natural history tentpoles.
Deadline understands that Russell Reynolds has held tentative early conversations with potential candidates including Stv Studios managing director David Mortimer, ITV Studios unscripted director Angela Jain and Karl Warner, Channel 4’s outgoing head of youth and digital.
Fatima Salaria, who previously ran The Apprentice producer Naked,...
Lee will step down as the CEO of BBC Studios Productions next month after a six-year stint to “pursue a new challenge” but Deadline is told that headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates is already scoping out successors.
The successful candidate will run a production unit that contributed heavily to BBC Studios’ £1.6B ($2B) content revenue last year, overseeing hits including Good Omens, Strictly Come Dancing, and David Attenborough’s natural history tentpoles.
Deadline understands that Russell Reynolds has held tentative early conversations with potential candidates including Stv Studios managing director David Mortimer, ITV Studios unscripted director Angela Jain and Karl Warner, Channel 4’s outgoing head of youth and digital.
Fatima Salaria, who previously ran The Apprentice producer Naked,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Max Goldbart and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Twitter, the darling of social networks, finally announced plans this month to make money on its 130 million (and growing) users. With the vision mapped, it's now about execution. That humdrum blocking and tackling required to grow a small enterprise to big boy proportions. It's about creating processes. It's about building infrastructure. It's about hitting milestones. And it's not what CEO and co-founder Evan Williams is used to.
Williams, 38, likes to start companies. Born on a farm, Williams dropped out of University of Nebraska, Lincoln after a year and a half. He co-founded Pyra and spun off a note-taking tool called Blogger, which he sold to Google in 2003 for $50 million in stock. The following year, he co-founded Odeo, a podcasting company, and then spun off Twitter in 2007, growing it to 50 employees last year. Williams is a classic startup entrepreneur, but he has limited experience managing a large company--and Twitter will employ 350 people by year's end,...
Williams, 38, likes to start companies. Born on a farm, Williams dropped out of University of Nebraska, Lincoln after a year and a half. He co-founded Pyra and spun off a note-taking tool called Blogger, which he sold to Google in 2003 for $50 million in stock. The following year, he co-founded Odeo, a podcasting company, and then spun off Twitter in 2007, growing it to 50 employees last year. Williams is a classic startup entrepreneur, but he has limited experience managing a large company--and Twitter will employ 350 people by year's end,...
- 7/15/2010
- by Lizette Chapman
- Fast Company
London -- Shares in ITV soared 10% to 41 pence (67 cents) Wednesday on speculation that HMV chief executive Simon Fox and Apple Inc.'s European head Pascal Cagni are heading the shortlist to replace outgoing chief executive Michael Grade.
ITV could be poised to make an announcement about its CEO at next week's half-year results on Aug. 6, although some sources suggest that the announcement is more likely to be in September.
Neither Fox -- who has been responsible for revamping of music and DVD retailer HMV through online downloads and live events -- nor Cagni -- a London-based Frenchman with experience of the digital world that ITV has struggled to understand -- have any experience of the broadcast sector, but both are regarded as turnaround specialists.
Other executives thought to be on the list are former BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball, former ProSiebenSat1 chief executive Guillaume de Posch and BBC Worldwide chief executive John Smith.
ITV could be poised to make an announcement about its CEO at next week's half-year results on Aug. 6, although some sources suggest that the announcement is more likely to be in September.
Neither Fox -- who has been responsible for revamping of music and DVD retailer HMV through online downloads and live events -- nor Cagni -- a London-based Frenchman with experience of the digital world that ITV has struggled to understand -- have any experience of the broadcast sector, but both are regarded as turnaround specialists.
Other executives thought to be on the list are former BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball, former ProSiebenSat1 chief executive Guillaume de Posch and BBC Worldwide chief executive John Smith.
- 7/29/2009
- by By Mimi Turner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- Shares in ITV fell 3% to 31 pence (47 cents) Thursday on news that the commercial broadcaster plans further cutbacks as advertising revenues continue to slide.
The news came as the ITV board said it had hired U.S. executive search consultants Russell Reynolds, suggesting that it may look internationally to find a successor to Michael Grade, who has already said he is expected to step down by the year-end.
ITV, which said in a trading update that group revenues fell 14% to £425 million ($642 million) in the first quarter of the year forecast that ad revenues would be down 16% in May and 18% down in June.
Revenues from broadcasting were down 12% year-on-year to $543 million, while revenue from the global content division fell 3.5% to $85 million on currency transactions reflecting a weaker U.K. pound.
Over the first half of the year ITV's net advertising revenue is predicted to be down 16% overall, narrowly ahead of the total market,...
The news came as the ITV board said it had hired U.S. executive search consultants Russell Reynolds, suggesting that it may look internationally to find a successor to Michael Grade, who has already said he is expected to step down by the year-end.
ITV, which said in a trading update that group revenues fell 14% to £425 million ($642 million) in the first quarter of the year forecast that ad revenues would be down 16% in May and 18% down in June.
Revenues from broadcasting were down 12% year-on-year to $543 million, while revenue from the global content division fell 3.5% to $85 million on currency transactions reflecting a weaker U.K. pound.
Over the first half of the year ITV's net advertising revenue is predicted to be down 16% overall, narrowly ahead of the total market,...
- 5/14/2009
- by By Mimi Turner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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