{"id":9045,"date":"2022-06-17T09:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/rdf-bolsters-development-team\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:29:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:29:32","slug":"rdf-bolsters-development-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/rdf-bolsters-development-team\/","title":{"rendered":"RDF Bolsters Development Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay UK label RDF has appointed Andy Sockanathan as head of development and James Smales as senior development producer.<\/p>\n<p>Sockanathan and Smales will initially focus on developing new quiz and game show formats for U.K. broadcasters and global SVOD platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Sockanathan joins from ITV Studios label Potato, where he spent the last three years heading up the quiz and game development team.<\/p>\n<p>Smales&#8217; previous work experience includes Hungry Bear, Bandicoot and Triple Brew Media, co-creating\u00a0<i>The Answer Trap<\/i> (Channel 4) and working as a development producer on\u00a0<i>The Masked Singer UK<\/i> (ITV), <i>Lingo<\/i>\u00a0(ITV and CBS), <i>The Million Pound Cube<\/i> (ITV) and <i>Test Drive<\/i> (BBC Scotland).<\/p>\n<p>Both execs will report to RDF&#8217;s creative director, Rachel Arnold, and creative director of development, Jon Green.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold said: \u201cAndy and James join RDF at an exciting time as we look to re-energize and expand our quiz and game-show offering. They both have amazing creative minds, and their combined experience working on some of the biggest shows around will generate some brilliant ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sockanathan commented: \u201cThe opportunity to build a brand-new team at the home of <em>Tipping Point<\/em> and <em>Only Connect<\/em> was too hard to turn down. 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