Fremantle’s Joni Day Joins ‘Beat Shazam’ Producer Apploff Entertainment
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Apploff Entertainment, the company behind Fox’s Beat Shazam and Don’t Forget The Lyrics, has named Fremantle’s Joni Day as its new EVP, Entertainment.
Day, who starts next week, previously spent the last decade as SVP, Alternative Programming at Fremantle. It is a big hire for Apploff Entertainment, which has series such as Lotería Loca coming up for CBS and Fox’s We Are Family, exec produced by Jamie Foxx.
She reports to President and CEO Jeff Apploff and will develop, sell and produce entertainment formats for the company. During her time at American Idol producer Fremantle, Day worked on series such as Fox’s Game of Talents, as well as ABC series Supermarket Sweep, Match Game, To Tell the Truth and The Great Christmas Light Fight as well as Nickelodeon series Double Dare and Unleashed and NBC’s Password.
Before working for the RTL-owned producer, she worked as a supervising producer at Mark Burnett Productions, where she worked on series such as Shark Tank and The Voice.
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