EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Rights has employed Sarah Mottershead from StudioCanal TV for its EMEA workforce.
Mottershead has been appointed VP, Center East, Africa, Israel, Greece & Cyprus, based mostly out of London. This can put her in control of technique for the MasterChef and Peaky Blinders distributor in these territories.
At present within the function is Robin Pollok, who we hear is exiting Banijay Rights on the finish of the yr.
At StudioCanal, she was VP, TV Sequence Gross sales, overseeing distribution in Central & Jap Europe, the CIS area, Africa and Asia. She has additionally held roles at Shine Worldwide, whose property at the moment are a part of Banijay Rights, and Fremantle.
Mottershead will report back to Banijay Rights’ EVP, EMEA Gross sales and Acquisitions, Claire Jago, who referred to as her “an skilled tv government with a wealth of information” who can be “an enormous asset to Banijay Rights in these pivotal markets.”
Mottershead is the most recent recruit to the Banijay Rights steady. Earlier this yr, it hired former BBC Worldwide director Isabelle Helle as SVP German-Talking Territories and Poland, changing Veronique Verges. On the advertising and comms entrance, it added former Ardour Distribution exec Claire Douglas as a part of a rejig.
Banijay Rights’ catalog consists of Survivor, Massive Brother, MasterChef, Peaky Blinders, Rogue Heroes, Marie Antoinette, Grantchester, Mr Bean and Black Mirror. At MIPCOM, it sold rags-to-riches drama series The Hardacres to several territories, as CEO Cathy Payne advised Deadline that “grappling with find out how to fund scripted.”
“Banijay Rights’ huge catalogue of actually stand-out programming is famend throughout the worldwide content material trade so I’m past proud to affix this unimaginable workforce and work throughout these essential territories,” mentioned Mottershead.
Banijay Rights guardian Banijay Leisure final week posted sales of €688.9M ($743.6M), down 3.5% from €713.6M in Q3 final yr. Banijay Group’s complete income elevated 8.9% to €3.1B within the first 9 months of the yr, because of 44% development in its sports activities betting and gaming enterprise. Adjusted EBITDA rose 15.3% to €546M.
