Blue Ant’s Saloon Media rejigs senior team with new roles for Kilback & Faulknor

LR: Matt Faulknor & Paul Kilback

Cold Valley producer Saloon Media has rejigged its senior team with a series of promotions at the Blue Ant Media-owned firm.

Paul Kilback becomes creative director of factual programming and Matt Faulknor has been named senior development producer, with both taking up their new remits immediately.

Kilback will take on an expanded leadership role and will oversee the creative and editorial direction on Saloon’s factual series, having most recently been executive producer.

Faulknor was previously senior development producer and has been upped having worked on Saloon shows such as Mysteries From Above for Cottage Life Canada and Cold Valley for Investigation Discovery and UKTV.

Kilback reports to Saloon’s MD Michael Kot, while Faulknor continues to report to Nick Crowe, the prodco’s head of unscripted development.