{"id":12445,"date":"2023-05-23T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/sky-studios-hires-bbc-exec-production\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:14:42","slug":"sky-studios-hires-bbc-exec-for-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2023\/05\/23\/sky-studios-hires-bbc-exec-for-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Studios Hires BBC Exec for Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Studios has brought on board Rebecca O\u2019Connor as director of production, joining later this year from the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor will partner with Sky Studios\u2019 comedy and drama teams in the U.K. to oversee the physical production of the upcoming slate. She joins Sky Studios from the BBC, where she currently works as head of business for scripted, overseeing the drama, film and comedy slate.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor will report to Caroline Cooper, COO at Sky Studios. The production teams led by Jo Hunter for comedy, Livia Burton for drama and Eugenio Perez for in-house and partner projects will report to O\u2019Connor when she starts in August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca is an excellent team player with a solid understanding, reputation and network within the industry,\u201d said Cooper. \u201cShe has the experience, skills and drive to create unmissable TV, and I know she will make an excellent addition to our team at Sky Studios.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Studios has brought on board Rebecca O\u2019Connor as director of production, joining later this year from the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":12446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[3240,2040],"class_list":["post-12445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-rebecca-oconnor","tag-sky-studios"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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