EXCLUSIVE: There have been layoffs at The Day of The Jackal and One Day outfit Common Worldwide Studios (UIS).
Deadline is advised that redundancies have hit UIS globally in London HQ and in its Australia and L.A. hubs. We haven’t confirmed the quantity laid off however are advised the share is within the single digits of total headcount.
The layoffs come at a time of change for the studio. Execs Kelsey Stability and Rob Howard have been just lately promoted at UIS whereas world scripted SVP Tesha Crawford exited. Regardless of the layoffs, we’re advised UIS continues to be seeking to substitute Crawford. One other current departure is ex-VP Manufacturing Laura Burrows, who isn’t a part of this layoff spherical and also will get replaced.
UIS is a division of Common Studio Group. The studio has quite a few workers and likewise owns fabled manufacturing outfits like Day of the Jackal maker Carnival, We’re Woman Components producer Working Title and David Heyman’s Heyday. Made in Chelsea label Monkey just lately shifted from UIS to Common Tv Various Studio and subsequently its identify was retired.
The information has emerged lower than a fortnight after we advised you a couple of bigger spherical of layoffs at UIS stablemate NBCUniversal primarily on the unscripted aspect within the States, which has been impacted by the SpinCo (now Versant) spin-off actioned by Comcast. A number of dozen workers throughout NBCUniversal’s tv and streaming enterprise have been let go, we revealed, together with the likes of Stephanie Steele, SVP Unscripted Present Manufacturing, and Jenny Ramirez, SVP Unscripted Codecs. Exterior of unscripted, there have been a couple of cuts throughout varied scripted divisions, most notably Vivian Lin, VP Improvement at Common Content material Productions.
UIS declined touch upon at this time’s layoffs anno.
