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Claire Jago Promoted to EMEA Lead at Banijay Rights
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Banijay Rights has promoted Claire Jago to executive VP for EMEA sales and acquisitions, with responsibility for the team and activity across the entire region.
Jago has spent the last eight months as senior VP for the Nordics at Banijay Rights. Prior to the acquisition of Endemol Shine Group by Banijay, she was a senior sales director for Endemol Shine International. Her new post sees her reporting directly to CEO Cathy Payne.
Payne commented: “Claire has a proven track record across EMEA, is a determined sales force and demonstrates tremendous commercial judgement, making her the perfect fit for the role. We have worked together for years and I look forward to continuing to partner closely in further building out our success course in the region.”
Vice renews partnership with Channel 4
Vice Distribution renewed its partnership on Tuesday with UK broadcaster Channel 4 to air more than 120 hours of original Vice TV content on All 4.
The deal includes 70 hours of new programming with content including
Black Market (pictured),
American Football.
“Vice shows are compelling and compatible for All 4 viewers and we are delighted to evolve this partnership into including first run content,” said Nick Lee, Channel 4 head of acquisitions. “This partnership provides All 4 viewers with even more potential for discovery of new and surprising content.”
Vice Distribution launched last summer, and has a catalogue of more than 1,000 hours of programming, with content partnerships already announced with Pluto TV, Discovery+, SBS Australia and Hulu.
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Viewpoint Presales in Nordics, Australia
Viewpoint to public broadcasters across the Nordics, as well as to ABC in Australia.
Pubcasters SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland), NRK (Norway) and DR (Denmark), as well as commercial broadcaster Sýn in Iceland, have acquired the five-part drama starring Noel Clarke (
Bulletproof,
Viewpoint ahead of its U.K. premiere on ITV on April 26.
Viewpoint is based on an idea by
Fleabag and Emmy Award-winning director Harry Bradbeer (
Killing Eve,
Safe House,
Manhunt) and directed by Ashley Way. It is produced by Tiger Aspect in association with Unstoppable Film and Television for ITV.
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Claire Jago, senior VP for the Nordics at Banijay Rights, said: “I’m thrilled that