{"id":14133,"date":"2020-11-25T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/jo-porter-named-md-playmaker\/"},"modified":"2020-11-25T09:39:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T14:39:16","slug":"jo-porter-named-md-of-playmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/jo-porter-named-md-of-playmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo Porter Named MD of Playmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Porter&#8217;s most recent credits include the record-setting female prison drama <em>Wentworth<\/em> (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 <em>Picnic at Hanging Rock<\/em>, sold in over 160 territories.<\/p>\n<p>Porter said, \u201cI 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]<b>\u00a0<\/b>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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":14134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3994],"class_list":["post-14133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-playmaker-media","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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