Revealed: Disney Fails In Audacious Bid To Hire BBC Content Chief Charlotte Moore For Top Europe Role
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Disney‘s hunt for its next European content supremo reached the very highest echelons of the BBC, but the Mouse House looks to have emerged empty-handed.
Deadline can reveal that BBC content boss Charlotte Moore, the most powerful person in British TV and audio commissioning, held talks over a move to Disney, but ultimately turned down the opportunity.
Disney and the BBC declined to comment. Disney wanted Moore to become its next SVP of Original Content in EMEA. Recruitment for the role has been the talk of the UK TV industry since Deadline revealed Liam Keelan was exiting after five years.
Keelan built an EMEA originals team from scratch and the show that will likely define his Disney legacy is Rivals, the big-budget Jilly Cooper adaptation that has been renewed for a second season.
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