{"id":5809,"date":"2017-09-21T11:10:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/head-content-appointed-banijay-group\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:11:35","slug":"head-of-content-appointed-at-banijay-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/head-of-content-appointed-at-banijay-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Content Appointed at Banijay Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay Group has hired Lucas Green, ex-head of development at FremantleMedia&#8217;s Thames, as head of content, a newly created post that is effective in January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Green will be responsible for the creation and development of all non-scripted formats for Banijay Group. He will collaborate with the company&#8217;s local managing directors and group-wide creative talent to cultivate the flow and circulation of intellectual property. He will also oversee Banijay&#8217;s creative investment strategy, making sure that funds are available for new developments and pilots with international appeal.<\/p>\n<p>As head of development at Thames (<em>The X Factor<\/em>, <em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em>), Green helped launch new prime-time entertainment formats as well as reboots of <em>Blankety Blank<\/em> and <em>The Price is Right<\/em>. Before joining the FremantleMedia UK label, he co-founded Superhero Television and, earlier, served as head of development at Princess Productions.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Langenberg, the COO of Banijay Group, stated: \u201cI am delighted to welcome Lucas to Banijay. With his extensive format experience, I have no doubt he will be hugely instrumental in enhancing the flow of IP within the group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marco Bassetti, the CEO of Banijay Group, noted: \u201cLucas brings tremendous creative experience to the group and will be of great value to us all as we enter our next phase of growth and realize our global potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green added: &#8220;It\u2019s a really exciting time to be joining Banijay with their ambitious plans to grow the business. It\u2019s a young company but already has a fantastic slate of international formats and brilliant producers. For me, the opportunity to help cultivate a creative network on a huge scale is a dream job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay Group has hired Lucas Green, ex-head of development at FremantleMedia&#8217;s Thames, as head of content, a newly created post that is effective in January 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":5810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[299,1132],"class_list":["post-5809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-banijay-group","tag-lucas-green","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Head of Content Appointed at Banijay Group - TVFORMATS<\/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\/tvformats\/head-of-content-appointed-at-banijay-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Head of Content Appointed at Banijay Group - 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