France Télévisions’ appoints director for national fiction

France Télévisions has appointed Anne Holmes as its new director for national ficition.

Holmes will be in charge for all of France Télévisions’ national broadcasters and for the editorial policy on French fiction across daytime and primetime television.

She will report to Takis Candilis (pictured), the deputy director general for strategy and programs, who joined the company from Banijay this February.

The exec arrives from France 3, where she acted as director of fiction since 2008 and has worked since 2003.

She is responsible for bringing in shows such as A French Village, Host Family and The Forest, to the channel.

Holmes began her career in 1990 at Hamster Productions. She has also worked with Alya and JLA Productions.