Jo Porter Named MD of Playmaker

Jo Porter, former director of scripted at Fremantle Australia, has been named managing director of the Australian production company Playmaker Media and will take up the post in 2021.

Porter’s most recent credits include the record-setting female prison drama Wentworth (2013-2020) for Foxtel, which was sold to over 171 worldwide territories and has been remade in four languages. She was executive producer on the Foxtel and Amazon Prime limited series Picnic at Hanging Rock, sold in over 160 territories.

Porter said, “I have really enjoyed my past nine years at Fremantle, working with a great group of people, and I am very proud of the projects that were brought to life and those I am leaving in the starting blocks. I am hugely excited at this unique opportunity to take this next step in my career. With the backing of Wayne [Garvie, president of international production at Sony Pictures Television] and the Sony Pictures Television team, we have fantastic scope to attract brilliant talent to create and build a new wave of distinctive productions out of Australia to share with the world.”