{"id":14404,"date":"2021-02-01T09:27:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wild-mercury-taps-head-development\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T09:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:27:21","slug":"wild-mercury-taps-head-of-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wild-mercury-taps-head-of-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Mercury Taps Head of Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Flannery, a Fifty Fathoms alum, is to join Wild Mercury Productions, a Banijay UK company, as head of development.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Flannery worked at Fifty Fathoms as associate producer for Sky\u2019s forthcoming historical drama <em>Domina<\/em>. She was a development producer at Wall to Wall for several years before becoming head of development at Big Light Productions. Her production credits include <em>Criminal<\/em> (Netflix), <em>Spotless<\/em> (Canal+), <em>New Tricks<\/em> (BBC One) and <em>The Scandalous Lady W<\/em> (BBC Two).<\/p>\n<p>At Wild Mercury, Flannery will be responsible for generating new ideas, managing a growing development slate and working with Managing Director Derek Wax to drive the company\u2019s creative strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Flannery said: \u201cI&#8217;m thrilled to be joining Derek and his wonderful team at Wild Mercury. They have a fantastic slate of projects and it&#8217;s an exciting time to be coming on board to help build on this as head of development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wax said: \u201cFran is a brilliant creative, passionate about development and writers love working with her. She will be a real asset to the forward growth of the company, at a key moment in our development with a number of exciting projects on the slate. 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