ScreenSkills Chair Steps Down
Former Endemol Shine boss Richard Johnston is stepping down from TV and movie trade physique ScreenSkills. Johnston shall be changed by Vice Chair Lisa Opie quickly, whereas Kate Lyndon turns into interim Vice Chair. “It’s been an absolute privilege to chair ScreenSkills during the last seven years, throughout which period we’ve fully reinvented the group and helped 1000’s of individuals throughout the trade,” mentioned Johnston. Amongst different areas, Johnston performed a big function in creating the Unscripted TV Expertise Fund, which has obtained an earnings of £5.67M ($7.1M) from 367 manufacturing corporations so far. He was additionally key to securing BFI-awarded Nationwide Lottery funding for the Future Movie Expertise Programme, which supported greater than 90,544 new entrants to the sector.
‘Britain’s Received Expertise’ Unveils ‘BGT Reacts’ Spin-Off
The producters behind ITV juggernaut Britain’s Received Expertise are forging a spin-off present titled BGT Reacts. Thames mentioned the sequence will function a number of the UK’s largest content material creators reacting to the acts taking the stage on the fact expertise present. The creators, who haven’t been introduced but, are set to be joined by notable acts from former seasons of Britain’s Received Expertise, in addition to shock celebrities. Six 15-minute episodes will drop on ITVX every week, instantly after the principle present airs on ITV1. “In addition to being one of many favorite elements of the sequence for conventional linear viewers, we all know that the auditions generate an enormous social footprint on-line every sequence,” mentioned Katie Rawcliffe, Head of Leisure Commissioning at ITV. Britain’s Received Expertise is at the moment on its seventeenth version, which is about to air within the spring. Judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli will return. BGT Reacts is government produced by Pete Cornes and Jamie Crossan, Head of Digital at Thames. It was commissioned by Lily Wilson, Commissioning Editor, Leisure at ITV.
