BBC Studios has named Seven.One Studios‘ Rose Hughes as its Senior Vice President for International Format Gross sales.
Hughes will lead the gross sales technique for unscripted and scripted codecs on the BBC’s manufacturing and distribution wing, reporting into Jacob de Boer, EVP International Leisure.
The appointment marks a return to the BBC for Hughes, who was Senior Gross sales Govt, Codecs Licensing for the Nordics and Benelux in a earlier run. She’ll start the brand new publish in February forward of the BBC Studios Showcase in London.
At ProSiebenSat.1-owned Seven.One Studios, she is VP of Gross sales, working with the likes of Married at First Sight creator Snowman and secured the second worldwide order of Stranded on Honeymoon Island with Seven Community in Australia, together with a fee on BBC One within the UK. She additionally oversaw CBS’s deal to pilot a U.S. model of German scripted format Einstein.
Over a 15-year profession, she has additionally labored Keshet Worldwide, the place she was VP of Completed Programmes, Codecs, Co-Productions and Pre-Buys. There she led format and tape gross sales within the UK, Scandinavia, the U.S., Canada and digital platforms, purchasing the likes of Singletown to Denmark and Norway concurrently and negotiated remakes of SVT’s Swedish drama Stockholm and NPO’s Yellow Peppers, which grew to become The A Phrase on the BBC.
“I’m delighted to welcome Rose again to BBC Studios to guide our International Format Gross sales, a pivotal position for driving business revenues of the enterprise,” mentioned de Boer. “Bringing along with her a implausible monitor report and a wealth of expertise she is the perfect particular person to take our globally famend unscripted and scripted codecs to much more audiences around the globe.”
BBC Studios’ annual flagship occasion, Showcase, takes place on February 24-25. New codecs will embrace The Honesty Field, from Mettlemouse Leisure and GroupM Movement Leisure, Blackshore from River Footage and Treasure Leisure, and Kevin & Co Productions’ scripted comedy Homebound 3.0.
“Globally iconic manufacturers like The 1% Membership, Dancing with the Stars, The Nice Bake Off, The Workplace and Ghosts showcase the unimaginable depth of BBC Studios’ catalogue,” mentioned Hughes. “With world main creators delivering a pipeline of thrilling new codecs equivalent to radical actuality courting format, The Honesty Field, anti-love story Homebound 3.0, and noir thriller Blackshore, it’s an inspiring time to return. I’m wanting to increase beloved manufacturers and produce modern new codecs to even wider audiences.”
Hughes’ rent comes quickly after Deadline revealed former Banijay Rights exec Robin Pollok had joined Janet Brown’s L.A.-based BBC Studios Global Content Sales division.
