Cookie Jar Appoints SVP of TV Sales & Co-Pros

BURBANK/TORONTO: John Morris has been named senior VP of TV sales and co-productions for Cookie Jar Entertainment in the U.K., Benelux, Australia and New Zealand.

Morris will lead TV sales and presales, planning and forecasting for the region, as well as spearhead creative development and co-productions with British and European broadcasters and studios. He will be based in London.

Before joining Cookie Jar, Morris owned a media consultancy and held executive roles at various media organizations, including managing director at Sparrowhawk Distribution, head of sales and acquisitions at IMG and head of merchandising at RTL Disney.

"With 25 years of multimedia sales experience, John is an important addition to Cookie Jar’s distribution department," said Toper Taylor, president and COO of Cookie Jar Entertainment. “We will benefit from John’s impressive industry knowledge and sales experience which will make him an extremely valuable asset to the company."

Morris commented: “Cookie Jar is one of the few companies able to access international funding for new content as well as having the infrastructure to effectively exploit it across all media platforms, both of which are even more crucial than ever in this period of squeezed production finance. I am therefore delighted to have the chance to work with them across both these areas.”