Studiocanal Signs M-K Kennedy as Executive Managing Director TV Series

Studiocanal has signed the particular person liable for establishing Netflix manufacturing hubs round Europe as its new TV boss.

M-Okay Kennedy, who has spent the previous few years because the streamer’s VP Manufacturing, Europe, has joined the Paris Has Fallen outfit as Govt Managing Director of TV Sequence, reporting to CEO Anna Marsh and primarily based in London. She succeeds Françoise Guyonnet, who has turn out to be EVP of Youngsters Manufacturers on the Paddington outfit because it pushes additional into the house.

She is going to oversee a crew that presently has sequence in 16 languages together with the likes of the TV model of the Has Fallen franchise starring Gerard Butler and Thomas Vinterberg’s Households Like Ours. Previous exhibits together with Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin.

Kennedy takes on the profitable gig after spending the previous seven years as Netflix’s Vice President of Manufacturing for Europe, primarily based in Amsterdam. There, she constructed the manufacturing groups liable for Netflix’ local-language sequence and movies originating from France, Italy, Spain & Portugal, DACH and Nordics, together with the likes of Lupin, Berlin, Society of the Snow and All Quiet on the Western Entrance.

Marsh stated: “M-Okay’s in-depth expertise and information in tv manufacturing is second to none and she or he is an government who demonstrates sturdy strategic imaginative and prescient. All through her profession, M-Okay has garnered a stellar fame throughout the trade and has established long-standing relationships with key expertise that may proceed to gasoline our bold development technique.”

Kennedy added: “The 14 manufacturing corporations within the Studiocanal TV Sequence household are gifted storytellers, and specialists of their respective markets. I’m honored to affix them and desperate to contribute to their evolution. In my earlier function, I witnessed how native tales can captivate audiences worldwide.”