Canada‘s eOne division is rejigging following the Lionsgate purchase, with Orphan Black EP Kerry Appleyard set to interchange Tecca Crosby on the inventive helm.
From April, Appleyard will tackle the SVP Scripted and Unscripted position that Crosby has held for the previous 12 years and can direct each style groups creatively. She joins from Boat Rocker Studios the place she was an EP on clone thriller Orphan Black (Area, BBC America), spin-off sequence Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC) and World Conflict Two spy drama X Firm, amongst others.
Crosby will “embark on a brand new chapter,” eOne stated, after shepherding the likes of Personal Eyes, Mary Kills Folks, Moonshine, Bitten and The Spencer Sisters.
eOne Canada has additional reorganized by selling Darren Giblin to SVP Present and Co-Productions and Andrew Kelly to VP Scripted Improvement, with Scott Boyd and Christine Diakos serving as VP’s Unscripted Improvement. Rounding out the group, Isabel Gomez-Moriana will proceed as Director, Scripted Improvement and Jessica Liadsky will proceed as Improvement Supervisor.
“Tecca has been an excellent inventive associate, a beautiful mentor to her group and an completed government with a protracted observe document of unique, daring and profitable scripted sequence,” stated Canada TV President Jocelyn Hamilton. “She has earned the respect and admiration of all of her colleagues, and she or he can be deeply missed by her eOne Canada household.”
Hamilton added: “We’re very lucky to welcome an government of Kerry’s stature to eOne. She brings nice inventive instincts and robust expertise relationships to our scripted and unscripted enterprise as a part of a reorganization that may improve our total inventive and enterprise technique.”
The information is the newest rejig since Lionsgate purchased eOne from Hasbro for $500M.
Simply earlier than the acquisition closed in December, we broke the information that President, World Unscripted Tv Tara Lengthy and President Worldwide Distribution Stuart Baxter had been each exiting. High executives Steve Bertram and Michael Lombardo have additionally left. Yesterday, Deadline revealed that Lionsgate Tv is decreasing the quantity of its growth offers by greater than half.
