EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has raided Disney for the exec producer behind A Thousand Blows and Rivals.
Jonny Richards, who is Disney+’s Director, Scripted Originals in EMEA, will join the BBC drama commissioning team this summer.
He has been with Disney for almost five years, working in a growing commissioning team and building out a slate featuring Steven Knight’s boxing drama A Thousand Blows, Jilly Cooper adaptation Rivals, Jeff Pope’s Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and Sean Bean-starrer Shardlake. He was recently promoted as EMEA content chief Angela Jain gets set to splash the cash on European originals. He previously ran development for Normal People maker Element Pictures and used to work for Channel 4.
Richards joins Lindsay Salt’s BBC drama commissioning team, which has recent credits including The Night Manager, Lord of the Flies and Richard Gadd’s upcoming series Half Man. Salt recently talked
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