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Kim Shillinglaw
How Netflix is shaking up the documentary world
Netflix is raising the bar for factual to premium levels and introducing ‘box sets’ and…
UKTV, Endemol head north for reinvention
Broadcaster UKTV and producer Endemol Shine Group are looking to reinvent their brands in northern…
Endemol Shine poaches BBC programming exec
Former BBC channel controller Kim Shillinglaw has hired BBC formats and features commissioning boss Donna…
Sigourney Weaver on board Gorillas in the Mist doc
Sigourney Weaver will narrate a new Nat Geo series about Dian Fossey, the naturalist whose…
Swain becomes latest BBC exit
Long-serving BBC executive Emma Swain is the latest high-profile programming executive to exit the UK…
Shillinglaw resurfaces at Endemol Shine
Former BBC Two and Four chief Kim Shillinglaw has been appointed director of factual at…
BBC doc boss takes BBC Two post
The BBC has appointed its head of documentaries, Patrick Holland, as channel editor of BBC…
BBC Studios exodus continues with unscripted exits
The lead BBC exec at motoring series Top Gear is the latest senior staffer to…
Moore: factual to be ‘heart’ of BBC Two
BBC programming chief Charlotte Moore plans to place factual programming at the centre of the…
Another controller leaves the BBC
The BBC’s Janice Hadlow has become the second high-ranking channels to leave the UK pubcaster…