BBC Studios LA Names Formats Veteran Nicholas Oakley As SVP, Unscripted Development
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios has named formats veteran Nicholas Oakley as SVP, Unscripted Development in LA, as the outfit seeks the next generation of hits.Deadline revealed in April that the U.S.
arm of the BBC’s commercial outfit was creating the role and Oakley, who joins from his Head of Development post at Hollywood Game Night producer Mission Control Media, will now work with the LA unscripted team to conceive and develop original content ideas and build domestic and global formats.
He will also leverage his relationships with U.S. buyers to pitch and sell entertainment and factual series.Oakley is a formats veteran, having worked for the likes of CNN’s HLN Network, ITV Studios and the U.S.
office of UK super-indie Tinopolis. He started his career with the BBC working on the Weakest Link, which has recently been rebooted in the U.S.
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