{"id":6983,"date":"2016-08-26T11:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/barcroft-bolsters-production-development-teams\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T15:46:04","slug":"barcroft-bolsters-production-development-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/08\/26\/barcroft-bolsters-production-development-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcroft Bolsters Production &amp; Development Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Barcroft Productions has appointed Paul Woolf as head of development and Alison Seymour as head of production, following Channel 4\u2019s recent investment in the company via its Growth Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Both Woolf and Seymour are stepping into newly created roles. Woolf\u2019s television production credits include co-developing <em>Operation Ouch!<\/em>\u00a0for CBBC and serving as executive producer on <em>Growing Up Down\u2019s<\/em>. He also created <em>Old School with the Hairy Bikers<\/em>, among other accomplishments. He most recently served as director of development at Maverick Television.<\/p>\n<p>Seymour joins Barcroft Productions following her time as production executive at Zinc Media (formerly Ten Alps). She has worked on projects for a range of broadcasters across all types of productions and genres.<\/p>\n<p>Woolf commented: \u201cBarcroft has unmatched assets in terms of its journalists and access to amazing, inspiring stories. I&#8217;m delighted to be joining such a forward-looking company and can&#8217;t wait to help the team create even more brilliant shows and series using those resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so excited to be joining Barcroft and becoming part of such a talented and creative team,\u201d said Seymour. \u201cBarcroft productions have some incredibly exciting projects in the pipeline and I can\u2019t wait to get stuck in and continue its success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul and Alison joining the company is a landmark moment for our production company business and completes the jigsaw for us when it comes to our senior management team,\u201d added Barcroft Media\u2019s CEO, Sam Barcroft. \u201cWe are very fortunate to have two extremely experienced and successful executives with us and coming on the back of Dom [Smith] and Victoria [Catton]\u2019s appointments we\u2019re now fully equipped to deliver on our growth plan with a strong team and a focused approach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Barcroft Productions has appointed Paul Woolf as head of development and Alison Seymour as head of production, following Channel 4\u2019s recent investment in the company via its Growth Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":6984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[787],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-barcroft-productions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Barcroft Bolsters Production &amp; 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