Netflix Adds To UK Drama Commissioning Team By Snapping Up AC Chapter One Exec Toby Bentley
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has added to its UK drama commissioning team by hiring Best Interests EP Toby Bentley from AC Chapter One.
Bentley recently joined Anne Mensah’s Sex Education and The Crown division as Manager, UK Series, focusing on overseeing shows coming out of the UK.
He reports to Mona Qureshi and is an addition to the team. Bentley joined Netflix from AC Chapter One, the drama indie backed by Anonymous Content, Casarotto Ramsay and United Agents of which he was a founding member with Sophie Gardiner five years ago, at which point it was called Chapter One Pictures.
Former ITV Studios drama lead Patrick Spence has since taken over. Having worked with Jack Thorne on BAFTA-nominee Kiri and National Treasure prior to Chapter One, he was EP on the prolific British scribe’s Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan-starring BBC drama Best Interests, which aired earlier this year and told the heartwrenching story of a married couple fighting for their disabled daughter’s medical care.
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