Deniz Şaşmaz Oflaz Named WBD Turkey Content material Chief
Deniz Şaşmaz Oflaz has been named Warner Bros Discovery’s Vice President of Native Unique Productions, Native Channels and Streaming Operations Lead for Turkey. Oflaz was beforehand CEO of streamer BluTV, which WBD acquired on the finish of final 12 months. She’s going to stay in control of the service, whereas taking up channel administration for TLC and DMAX, plus improvement and manufacturing of native Turkish content material. Grigory Lavrov, Vice President of Advertising, Native Manufacturers & Franchise Administration, Central & Jap Europe (CEE) and the Center East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT), who had led TLC and DMAX since 2020, will proceed to steer the commerce advertising groups throughout CEE and MENAT and tackle new tasks exterior of Turkey. In an interview with Oflaz and WBD Common Supervisor for CEE, the Baltics, Center East, Mediterranean and Turkey Jamie Cooke, we reported on how BluTV has change into an vital strategic asset for WBD, appearing as a testbed for additional streaming initiatives within the MENA area.
Potato‘s Michael Kelpie Stepping Down After 11 Years
ITV Studios’ first in-house manufacturing label, Potato, is saying goodbye to its founder. Michael Kelpie will in December exit the corporate, which makes the likes of The Chase, Beat the Chasers and Sitting on a Fortune. He has been with UK broadcaster ITV since 2007, initially becoming a member of as an government producer with a slate together with 4 Weddings, The Chase and the revivals of Shock Shock, It’ll Be Alright On the Evening and Krypton Issue. After launching Potato in 2013, he made reveals resembling Bear Grylls’ Survival Faculty, Post-mortem: The Final Hours of… and Ninja Warrior UK. “It’s by no means a straightforward determination to depart, however as Van Morrison sang, ‘I do know the time is good’ and the superb staff at Potato will proceed to develop and observe the mantra that has guided us from the start — make what we love and love what we make.” Angela Jain, ITV Studios Director of Unscripted UK, will act as interim MD for Potato working alongside senior execs Martin Scott, Phil Mount and Christina Clayton. Jain mentioned Kelpie was “really one among a form.”
BBC Participant Increasing In EMEA
BBC Participant, the worldwide streamer from BBC Studios, is launching in Greece, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The on-demand service might be added to Cosmote TV’s streaming platform in Greece, Slovak Telekom’s Magio TV in Slovakia and T-Cell’s Magenta TV in Czech Republic from November 2024. In Greece, BBC Participant will provide reveals resembling Idris Elba drama Luther, pure historical past titles together with Mammals and cookery competitors The Nice British Bake Off with Greek subtitles. In Slovakia and Czech Republic the content material might be localized in Czech, with voiceover, subtitles and dubbing. The platform will provide the likes of The Following Occasions are Primarily based on a Pack of Lies, Pleasure & Prejudice, The Trump Present, Putin – A Russian Spy Story, Snow Canines: Into the Wild and kids’s present Hey Duggee. BBC Participant is already obtainable in Poland, Germany, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia.
Sharon Stone & Matthew Borderick To Be Honored In Italy
Sharon Stone and Matthew Borderick are to honored by Italy’s Nationwide Cinema Museum with its life achievement Stella della Mole Award, inside the framework of its forty second Torino Movie Competition later this month. Stone’s attendance on the pageant might be accompanied by a screening of Sam Raimi’s 1995 western The Fast and The Useless, which she co-produced and starred in as deadly gunfighter The Woman, reverse Gene Hackman as her nemesis in a forged additionally that includes Leonardo Di Caprio and Russell Crowe. Broderick will contact down on the pageant with spouse and actress Sarah Jessica Parker for a chat on his relationship with Marlon Brando throughout the filming of the 1990 crime comedy The Freshman, wherein he was the younger co-star. The movie is being screened as a part of a retrospective devoted to Brando. The Stella della Mole Award takes its identify from the Museum’s house of the Mole Antonelliana, which was initially conceived as a synagogue.
Goodbye Kansas Group CEO Stefan Danieli Resigning
Stefan Danieli, the CEO of Sweden’s Goodbye Kansas Group, has tendered his resignation. He’s exiting the VFX group after overseeing a strategic transformation for the corporate, overhauling its route, monetary construction and price administration. He plans handy over to “a brand new growth-focused chief,” according to an present board plan. Danieli will stay in publish by means of a transition interval and might be “on the firm’s disposal all through the discover interval of 9 months.” Chairman of the Board Per Anders Wärn will present extra help. He mentioned the corporate is now “properly positioned for worthwhile development contemplating each the gaming and the worldwide movie and TV markets are recovering.” Wärn added: “On behalf of the Board, I wish to categorical our gratitude to Stefan for his management and dedication over the previous two years.”
