{"id":12372,"date":"2023-03-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:00:03","slug":"chris-sussman-signs-first-look-deal-with-banijay-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2023\/03\/09\/chris-sussman-signs-first-look-deal-with-banijay-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sussman Signs First-Look Deal with Banijay UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay UK has inked an exclusive first-look deal with Chris Sussman, former director of U.K. scripted at Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to working at Netflix, Sussman served as head of scripted comedy at BBC Studios. He has been involved with many of the U.K.\u2019s most successful scripted comedy series, including <em>Fleabag<\/em>,<em> This Country<\/em>, <em>Catastrophe<\/em>, <em>Charlie Brooker\u2019s Wipe<\/em>, <em>Man Vs Bee<\/em>, <em>Good Omens<\/em>, <em>Mum<\/em>, <em>People Just Do Nothing<\/em>, <em>Bad Education<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal will see Sussman partner with appropriate labels within the group to produce new original scripted projects. It forms part of the recently announced \u00a350 million ($59 million) Banijay UK Growth Fund, which enables the group to partner with high-profile talent.<\/p>\n<p>Sussman worked at Netflix from 2019 to 2022 and at BBC Studios from 2016 to 2019. Before that, he was commissioning executive for BBC Comedy from 2011 to 2016. He has also written on a number of sketch shows, including <em>The Peter Serafinowicz Show<\/em>, <em>Monkey Dust<\/em>, <em>World\u2019s Craziest Fools<\/em> and <em>Man Stroke Woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris is an extraordinary creative with fantastic talent relationships so I can\u2019t wait to work with him,\u201d said Patrick Holland, CEO of Banijay UK. \u201cThe UK Growth Fund was set up to enable us to attract exciting names like Chris to business, so I\u2019m delighted to be able to announce this deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved working with Patrick when he was controller of BBC Two and am excited to see what else we can develop together,\u201d Sussman said. \u201cNobody seems to be returning my phone calls now I\u2019m not commissioning anymore, but I\u2019m sure that\u2019s just a problem with my mobile network and it will all be sorted soon&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay UK has inked an exclusive first-look deal with Chris Sussman, former director of U.K. scripted at Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":12373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2659,3188,2812],"class_list":["post-12372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-banijay-uk","tag-chris-sussman","tag-patrick-holland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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