Studiocanal Signs Netflix Europe Production Boss To Run TV Series
deadline.comStudiocanal has signed the person responsible for setting up Netflix production hubs around Europe as its new TV boss. M-K Kennedy, who has spent the past few years as the streamer’s VP Production, Europe, has joined the Paris Has Fallen outfit as Executive Managing Director of TV Series, reporting to CEO Anna Marsh and based in London.
She succeeds Françoise Guyonnet, who has become EVP of Kids Brands at the Paddington outfit as it pushes further into the space.
She will oversee a team that currently has series in 16 languages including the likes of the TV version of the Has Fallen franchise starring Gerard Butler and Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours.
Past shows including Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin. Kennedy takes on the lucrative gig after spending the past seven years as Netflix’s Vice President of Production for Europe, based in Amsterdam.
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