FilmNation Entertainment and Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) have appointed Kirstie Macdonald as head of the companies’ new UK-based TV joint venture.
Operating under the FilmNation brand, the company will develop, produce and finance premium scripted television content. Macdonald will act as creative director and will take up her position in November, when she will begin to assemble a team.
Macdonald joins from her role as Creative Director, Drama at Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks’ production company Expectation, where she will continue to oversee the launch of BBC series Guilt ahead of her move. Macdonald was previously at ITV Studios-owned World Productions where she worked on BBC series Line Of Duty and the Bafta-winning Channel 4 series The Fear.
The joint-venture between FilmNation and Nent Group was announced in January this year. The companies plan to leverage existing talent relationships to build a slate of TV. Nent Group will...
Operating under the FilmNation brand, the company will develop, produce and finance premium scripted television content. Macdonald will act as creative director and will take up her position in November, when she will begin to assemble a team.
Macdonald joins from her role as Creative Director, Drama at Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks’ production company Expectation, where she will continue to oversee the launch of BBC series Guilt ahead of her move. Macdonald was previously at ITV Studios-owned World Productions where she worked on BBC series Line Of Duty and the Bafta-winning Channel 4 series The Fear.
The joint-venture between FilmNation and Nent Group was announced in January this year. The companies plan to leverage existing talent relationships to build a slate of TV. Nent Group will...
- 9/25/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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