{"id":10290,"date":"2020-05-29T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/avalon-hires-head-u-k-production-comedy-entertainment-scripted\/"},"modified":"2020-05-29T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:54:48","slug":"avalon-hires-head-of-u-k-production-for-comedy-entertainment-scripted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2020\/05\/29\/avalon-hires-head-of-u-k-production-for-comedy-entertainment-scripted\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalon Hires for U.K. Production Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Ward has joined Avalon as head of U.K. production for comedy, entertainment and scripted.<\/p>\n<p>In his new position, Ward will report to Joanna Beresford, Avalon\u2019s global director of production. He will work alongside Lydia Arding, head of U.K. production for factual and documentaries and Kathy Welch, U.S. senior VP of production.<\/p>\n<p>Avalon series currently in production include <em>Not Going Out<\/em> (BBC), <em>Taskmaster<\/em> (Channel 4), <em>Last Week Tonight with John Oliver<\/em> (HBO), <em>Starstruck<\/em> (HBO Max\/BBC), <em>Everything\u2019s Gonna Be Okay<\/em> (Freeform), <em>Spitting Image<\/em> (BritBox), <em>Breeders<\/em> (FX\/Sky), <em>The Russell Howard Hour<\/em> (Sky), <em>The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show<\/em> (Netflix), as well as multiple comedy specials for Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max and Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Ward most recently spent eight years at Burning Bright Productions as director of production, overseeing shows such as <em>Joanna Lumley\u2019s Silk Road Adventur<\/em>e (ITV), <em>50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy<\/em> (Sky), <em>Almost Royal<\/em> (BBC America) and <em>Richard E Grant\u2019s Hotel Secrets<\/em> (Sky). He previously served as head of production for comedy and entertainment for Tiger Aspect for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Beresford said: \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly pleased to welcome Toby to Avalon. At a time when the entire industry has to navigate one of the most complex moments in production history, his first-rate expertise and experience are invaluable as we work to meet our current and future production commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ward added: \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be joining the team at Avalon. I\u2019ve been a long time admirer of their shows and I\u2019m delighted to be working with Joanna again and to be joining the company at such an exciting time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Ward has joined Avalon as head of U.K. production for comedy, entertainment and scripted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":10291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1404,2447],"class_list":["post-10290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-avalon","tag-toby-ward"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Avalon Hires for U.K. Production Team - TVEUROPE<\/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\/tveurope\/2020\/05\/29\/avalon-hires-head-of-u-k-production-for-comedy-entertainment-scripted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Avalon Hires for U.K. Production Team - TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Toby Ward has joined Avalon as head of U.K. production for comedy, entertainment and scripted.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2020\/05\/29\/avalon-hires-head-of-u-k-production-for-comedy-entertainment-scripted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-29T14:44:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-29T15:54:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/Toby-Ward-Avalon-520.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"392\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\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\/tveurope\/2020\/05\/29\/avalon-hires-head-of-u-k-production-for-comedy-entertainment-scripted\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2020\/05\/29\/avalon-hires-head-of-u-k-production-for-comedy-entertainment-scripted\/\",\"name\":\"Avalon Hires for U.K. Production Team - TVEUROPE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-29T14:44:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-29T15:54:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2020\/05\/29\/avalon-hires-head-of-u-k-production-for-comedy-entertainment-scripted\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2020\/05\/29\/avalon-hires-head-of-u-k-production-for-comedy-entertainment-scripted\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2020\/05\/29\/avalon-hires-head-of-u-k-production-for-comedy-entertainment-scripted\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Avalon Hires for U.K. Production Team\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\",\"name\":\"TVEUROPE\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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