{"id":3952,"date":"2012-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/"},"modified":"2012-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T00:00:00","slug":"sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">LONDON: Sandi Toksvig is to join Stephen Fry and Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures, where she will serve as creative director. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Toksvig will work closely with Carter, the managing director, and Pip Broughton, the newly appointed creative producer, to create and develop new comedy, drama and entertainment projects. Toksvig and Broughton are already working on potential new commissions for the BBC, Sky and ITV. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Toksvig said: &ldquo;I am delighted to be joining Sprout along with Pip who has been an important professional partner to me for many years.  She is an inspirational creative producer.  Anyone in Britain joining Stephen Fry in business would count themselves lucky to have his astonishing talents at their disposal.  The fact that he&rsquo;s such a nice guy is a bonus.  With the brilliant Gina Carter at the helm we are more than a little excited about the future.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Carter said: &ldquo;Sandi is an absolute natural fit with Stephen and me at Sprout, she has known Stephen for more than 30 years and I have been a huge fan of hers forever.  Pip&rsquo;s appointment as our new creative producer means that we have our own creative dream team.&rdquo; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Sandi Toksvig is to join Stephen Fry and Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures, where she will serve as creative director. Toksvig will work closely with Carter, the managing director, and Pip Broughton, the newly appointed creative producer, to create and develop new comedy, drama and entertainment projects. Toksvig and Broughton are already working on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures. LONDON, April 19: Sandi Toksvig is to join Stephen Fry and Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures, where she will serve as creative director. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski\" \/>\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\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures. LONDON, April 19: Sandi Toksvig is to join Stephen Fry and Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures, where she will serve as creative director. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-04-19T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\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\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/\",\"name\":\"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-19T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-04-19T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\"},\"description\":\"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures. LONDON, April 19: Sandi Toksvig is to join Stephen Fry and Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures, where she will serve as creative director. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures\"}]},{\"@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\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\",\"name\":\"World Screen\",\"description\":\"The leading source of information for the international media business.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures","description":"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures. LONDON, April 19: Sandi Toksvig is to join Stephen Fry and Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures, where she will serve as creative director. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures","og_description":"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures. LONDON, April 19: Sandi Toksvig is to join Stephen Fry and Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures, where she will serve as creative director. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/","og_site_name":"TVEUROPE","article_published_time":"2012-04-19T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg"}],"author":"World Screen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"World Screen","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/","name":"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-04-19T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2012-04-19T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7"},"description":"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures. LONDON, April 19: Sandi Toksvig is to join Stephen Fry and Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures, where she will serve as creative director. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/19\/sandi-toksvig-named-creative-director-for-sprout-pictures\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sandi Toksvig Named Creative Director for Sprout Pictures"}]},{"@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\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7","name":"World Screen","description":"The leading source of information for the international media business.","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}