Sky Studios Promotes Barnaby Shingleton to Director of Factual

Sky Studios, the production and growth arm for Comcast-backed fork out-Television set operator Sky, has promoted Barnaby Shingleton to director of factual.

In the new place, the very long-time Sky government will consider on in general obligation for the studio’s industrial expenditure, deficit funding and intercontinental distribution of Sky Initial documentaries, along with 3rd social gathering-funded initiatives for other broadcasters, developed by Sky Studios output businesses.

Shingleton — who is now director of documentaries — will also have immediate accountability for the studio’s portfolio of eight U.S. and U.K. factual creation providers, together with “Great British Bake Off” producer Really like Productions, Jupiter Amusement, Blast! Films, Transistor Films, Talos Films, True to Character, Catalina Content and Real North.

He will also get the job done closely with Sky’s factual commissioning teams throughout Sky U.K., Germany and Italy.

Shingleton will report into Sky Studios CEO Gary Davey and incoming CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz, when she joins the business enterprise and can take around from Davey this September.

In contrast to scripted written content, which is jointly commissioned by Sky Studios and the originating Sky territory, factual commissioning sits in just Sky’s channel teams in each and every of the company’s marketplaces in the U.K., Italy and Germany.

For the U.K., the factual drive is led by Poppy Dixon, director of documentaries and factual, who commissions primary information for dedicated channels Sky Nature, Sky Crime and Sky Documentaries.

Very last 7 days, Sky Documentaries unveiled a slate of new projects out of the U.K., four of which are generated in affiliation with Shingleton’s team at Sky Studios and dispersed by NBCUniversal World wide Distribution.

Prior to Sky Studios, Shingleton was director of entertainment and factual at Sky’s now-defunct in-house distributor Sky Vision, where he oversaw and managed the non-scripted catalogue. The sales arm, which was led by Jane Millichip (now chief written content officer for Sky Studios), was folded into NBCUniversal World-wide Distribution in October 2019.

Prior to Sky, Shingleton was head of enjoyment at Zodiak Rights/RDF, which is now aspect of Banijay Group.