Gill Pritchard Joins BBC Worldwide’s Home Entertainment Unit

LONDON, July 3: BBC Worldwide has tapped Gill Pritchard as
the director of children’s for its home entertainment business, effective this
September.

Prior to her appointment, Pritchard served as the business
development director in charge of developing and building the commercial media
player that BBC Worldwide will launch later this year. She was also the head of
strategy at BBC Worldwide and spent a year at the BBC as the financial and
commercial strategy manager.