Paramount Global’s Lawrence Szabo is joining BBC Studios. Szabo has been named Executive VP of U.S. Content Distribution, effective immediately, based out of LA.
He’ll lead a licensing team for scripted and factual programming, looking at co-production and content acquisition deals, and will have a key role in setting the BBC’s strategy in the States.
At Paramount, Szabo was Senior Executive of Program Acquisitions, working across Paramount+, Pluto TV, MTV Entertainment Networks, Nickelodeon, BET and Showtime.
Among the thousands of hours he acquired in that post, he took the streaming rights to CBS sitcom Ghosts, which BBC Studios co-produces, and the cable rights for the Indiana Jones and John Wick film franchises.
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