Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVRachel Bendavid has been officially named Head of Scripted Programming for the Lionsgate and BBC Studios Los Angeles partnership.
The formal announcement follows Deadline’s report last month that the former longtime ABC drama executive had been tapped to head the Lionsgate/BBC Studios Los Angeles programming venture.Bendavid is responsible for overseeing the operations and content initiatives of the television partnership as well as shepherding the development and production of its programming slate.
Within a year of its launch, the partnership landed pilot orders for its U.S. adaptations of hit BBC series from Fox for This Country and CBS for Ghosts.
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