Roughcut TV Bolsters Drama Push with Two New Hires

Roughcut TV has furthered its move into drama production with the appointment of Sophia Rashid and Aisling Kiely as drama development producers and the promotion of Marianna Abbotts to executive producer of drama.

Kiely joins Roughcut TV having worked as a development producer and script consultant with series credits across the BBC, ITV, NBC and Sky. She has worked in-house at Working Title and Endor Productions and ran the development team at Twelve Town, as well as provided consultancy work at partner company Riff Raff Entertainment.

Rashid joins the company from her role as executive producer in BBC Children’s In House drama productions. Rashid also worked as a producer on Holby City for BBC Studios and a development producer in the BBC Writers’ Room.

Alex Smith, head of scripted, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome two brilliant new script brains to the drama team. Aisling and Sophia both bring bags of creativity and a long list of exciting new talent to our writing pool. Under Marianna’s guidance, they’ll turbocharge the department as we continue to develop for all major broadcasters.”