Amazon MGM Studios has a new head of global formats.
The company has promoted Anaïs Baker to the role. It follows the departure of Cj Yu, who held a similar role, at the end of last year.
Baker, who is LA-based, has been with the company for around two and a half years, previously working under Yu as a senior unscripted creative executive in the global formats team.
Before that, she was at BBC Worldwide, where she was a commissioning editor for its BBC Brit and BBC Lifestyle channels as well as an executive producer of content partnerships. She was also director of international format production and development at NBCUniversal, based out of London, where she worked on formats such as Hollywood Game Night as well as international adaptations of Top Chef and The Real Housewives.
Amazon MGM Studios global formats team is responsible for rolling out its formats including...
The company has promoted Anaïs Baker to the role. It follows the departure of Cj Yu, who held a similar role, at the end of last year.
Baker, who is LA-based, has been with the company for around two and a half years, previously working under Yu as a senior unscripted creative executive in the global formats team.
Before that, she was at BBC Worldwide, where she was a commissioning editor for its BBC Brit and BBC Lifestyle channels as well as an executive producer of content partnerships. She was also director of international format production and development at NBCUniversal, based out of London, where she worked on formats such as Hollywood Game Night as well as international adaptations of Top Chef and The Real Housewives.
Amazon MGM Studios global formats team is responsible for rolling out its formats including...
- 2/13/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cj Yu, who was Head of Unscripted Development, Global Formats at Amazon Studios, has left the company.
It’s not entirely clear why Yu, who was responsible for the international roll out of formats including All Or Nothing and Lol: Last One Laughing, left the company but one source close to the situation said it was over “creative differences”.
Yu joined Amazon Studios in 2017, initially as a senior creative development and programming executive before becoming Head of Unscripted Development in Latin America and then promoted to the global formats role in 2019.
He previously held role at Mark Burnett Productions, Endemol, TMZ and Talpa Media.
Based in LA, he was responsible for the global development, commissioning and localization of reality and docuseries formats at the company. This included adapting sports franchise All or Nothing in over a dozen markets, and comedy format Lol: Last One Laughing in close to 20 markets...
It’s not entirely clear why Yu, who was responsible for the international roll out of formats including All Or Nothing and Lol: Last One Laughing, left the company but one source close to the situation said it was over “creative differences”.
Yu joined Amazon Studios in 2017, initially as a senior creative development and programming executive before becoming Head of Unscripted Development in Latin America and then promoted to the global formats role in 2019.
He previously held role at Mark Burnett Productions, Endemol, TMZ and Talpa Media.
Based in LA, he was responsible for the global development, commissioning and localization of reality and docuseries formats at the company. This included adapting sports franchise All or Nothing in over a dozen markets, and comedy format Lol: Last One Laughing in close to 20 markets...
- 11/29/2023
- by Peter White and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Some 14,000 international TV executives, including around 5,000 buyers from over 100 countries, will be cruising down the Croisette in Cannes this weekend for the annual Mipcom market.
The sun is set to shine in the south of France and the major international distributors, including the Hollywood studios, will hope this helps shift their latest high-end dramas and non-scripted entertainment formats.
The Americans will be back in town, having largely given Mip TV in April a miss, with high-profile buyers from the FAANGs joining traditional buyers from the broadcast networks and cable stations. The likes of Apple’s Morgan Wandell, Hulu’s Craig Erwich, Amazon’s Cj Yu and Euro chief Georgia Brown, Facebook’s Toby Faulkner and Mina Lefevre and YouTube’s Luke Hyams are expected to be joined by Fox’s Rob Wade and teams from Bravo, FX, A+E Networks, Nat Geo and Discovery.
Hollywood talent chief Ari Emanuel will be...
The sun is set to shine in the south of France and the major international distributors, including the Hollywood studios, will hope this helps shift their latest high-end dramas and non-scripted entertainment formats.
The Americans will be back in town, having largely given Mip TV in April a miss, with high-profile buyers from the FAANGs joining traditional buyers from the broadcast networks and cable stations. The likes of Apple’s Morgan Wandell, Hulu’s Craig Erwich, Amazon’s Cj Yu and Euro chief Georgia Brown, Facebook’s Toby Faulkner and Mina Lefevre and YouTube’s Luke Hyams are expected to be joined by Fox’s Rob Wade and teams from Bravo, FX, A+E Networks, Nat Geo and Discovery.
Hollywood talent chief Ari Emanuel will be...
- 10/11/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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