Huw Kennair-Jones to Join ITV’s Drama Commissioning Team

ITV has appointed Huw Kennair-Jones to its drama commissioning team.

Kennair-Jones was most recently editor of Radio 4’s The Archers. He will move to ITV to take commissioning responsibility for some of the biggest continuing dramas on the network, Coronation Street and Emmerdale. Kennair-Jones will report to Polly Hill, ITV’s head of drama. He will join the ITV commissioning team in December.

Hill said, “I am delighted that Huw is joining our drama team. His experience and passion will be invaluable in working on our brilliant continuing dramas. Victoria and I are also looking forward to welcoming him into our commissioning team, and look forward to his contribution in continuing to make distinctive and ambitious mainstream drama for ITV.”

Kennair-Jones said, “I’m delighted to be joining the ITV drama team at such an exciting time. ITV has always been at the forefront of TV drama and I’m thrilled to be getting the chance to work on Coronation Street and Emmerdale, two of the U.K.’s most iconic programs. And though I’ll be away from Borsetshire, the fantastic cast and crew of The Archers in Birmingham will always have a special place in my heart and I’ll be listening as avidly as I ever have. I’ve loved being part of such a brilliant program.”