Cosgrove Hall Fitzpatrick hires Johnstone

Cosgrove Hall Fitzpatrick Entertainment, the business formed by the founders of UK toon studio Cosgrove Hall, has hired Jenny Johnstone as its commercial director.

Johnstone joins the kids business from Licensing Management International where she developed L&M campaigns for HBO’s Game of Thrones among others.

Commenting on her appointment, she said: “CHF’s heritage in producing some of the most iconic children’s programmes such as Danger Mouse and their award winning creative team certainly attracted me to the company. “

She added: “However, it is CHF Entertainment’s new programmes, such as their first pre-school animation series, Pip Ahoy! that I am looking forward to working on to develop exciting opportunities.”

Simon Hall, managing director of CHF Entertainment said: ”Jenny’s industry knowledge and contacts will be an invaluable asset in this vital next stage of our development.”