Disney+ has hired Lee Mason, the Channel 4 commissioner behind It’s A Sin, as its scripted chief in EMEA.Mason will join the streamer as director of scripted in the summer after nearly a decade at Channel 4, where he was also involved in commissioning BAFTA-winning Netflix co-production The End of the F***ing World.
He will report to Liam Keelan, VP of original content in EMEA.Mason is the second Channel 4 commissioner Keelan has poached this year after he recruited Sean Doyle to be Disney+’s point-person for unscripted producers in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.Both Mason and Doyle will work across Disney+ and its grownup brand Star to commission original series.
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