{"id":6664,"date":"2016-09-14T11:11:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T15:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role\/"},"modified":"2016-09-14T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T17:58:46","slug":"banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Banijay Group Taps Drama Veteran for New Scripted Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: Banijay Group has appointed Takis Candilis, who has worked at TF1 and Lagard\u00e8re Entertainment, to the newly created post of head of scripted.<\/p>\n<p>In this role, Candilis will be responsible for Banijay\u2019s scripted production company in France, expanding the French scripted business and international drama output. He will also oversee the entire scripted production business for Banijay Group.<\/p>\n<p>Candilis\u2019s career spans more than 40 years. He has produced award-winning drama series such as\u00a0<em>Navarro<\/em>, <em>L\u2019Instit<\/em> and <em>Quai No. 1<\/em>. Candilis became head of drama at TF1 in 1999, taking on the\u00a0additional responsibility of general assistant director of TF1 Production in 2002. He joined Lagard\u00e8re Entertainment as the senior VP of audiovisual production in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Bassetti, Group CEO of Banijay, commented, \u201cWe are extremely pleased to have one of the leading exponents of international scripted programming join us at Banijay Group. Takis has extraordinarily deep knowledge [of] and experience [with]\u00a0developing and creating scripted content. It is an important next step for the group to grow its business in this important genre and, with Takis at the helm, we look forward to expanding our global presence in the drama arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Candilis added: \u201cIt is certainly an exciting time to arrive at Banijay Group following the recent merger which has made it the world\u2019s largest independent content-creation company. There are many award-winning fiction producers within the group and I look forward to working with them to determine new projects and to support them as they develop and widen their production slates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: Banijay Group has appointed Takis Candilis, who has worked at TF1 and Lagard\u00e8re Entertainment, to the newly created post of head of scripted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":6665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1311,1312],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-banijay-group","tag-takis-candilis","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Banijay Group Taps Drama Veteran for New Scripted Role - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banijay Group Taps Drama Veteran for New Scripted Role - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PARIS: Banijay Group has appointed Takis Candilis, who has worked at TF1 and Lagard\u00e8re Entertainment, to the newly created post of head of scripted.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-14T15:11:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-09-14T17:58:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/09\/TakisCandilis-BanijayGroup-916.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role\/\",\"name\":\"Banijay Group Taps Drama Veteran for New Scripted Role - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-14T15:11:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-14T17:58:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/banijay-group-taps-drama-veteran-for-new-scripted-role\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Banijay Group Taps Drama Veteran for New Scripted Role\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. 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