Kate Morton, currently the content strategy director of family brands at Entertainment One, has been appointed as BBC Children\u2019s head of commissioning and acquisitions for 0 to 6s.<\/p>\n
Morton\u2019s new role will see her lead on all BBC preschool programming. She will be responsible for all commissions and acquisitions\u2014from both in-house production teams and the independent sector\u2014as well as for delivering content, products and onscreen talent across all platforms for audiences up to 6 years old.<\/p>\n
Morton joins the BBC later in the summer and will work alongside Sarah Muller, who took up the role of BBC Children\u2019s head of commissioning and acquisitions for 7-plus in March 2020.<\/p>\n
With eOne, Morton has overseen a number of hugely successful kids\u2019 titles, including Peppa Pig<\/em>, PJ Masks<\/em>, Ricky Zoom<\/em>, My Little Pony<\/em>, Transformers<\/em> and Power Rangers<\/em>. Before Entertainment One, she spent 12 years at The Walt Disney Company, where she was responsible for all aspects of programming, acquisitions, commissions and creative strategy for Disney Junior and Disney Channels linear and on-demand across multiple territories.<\/p>\n Morton commented: “I’m over the moon to be joining BBC Children’s. It’s the fulfillment of a lifelong personal goal, and I’m honored to be given this opportunity to deliver the very best content to engage, educate and entertain children 0 to 6 and their families across the U.K.”<\/p>\n Patricia Hidalgo, director of BBC Children\u2019s and Education and to whom Morton will report, said: \u201cKate\u2019s wealth of experience in preschool broadcasting makes her the perfect appointment to lead on such precious CBeebies brands as Bedtime Stories<\/em>, Hey Duggee<\/em>, Numberblocks<\/em> and Mr Tumble<\/em>. I\u2019m thrilled she is joining us and we\u2019re all looking forward to working with her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kate Morton, currently the content strategy director of family brands at Entertainment One, has been appointed as BBC Children\u2019s head of commissioning and acquisitions for 0 to 6s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":20765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1351],"class_list":["post-20764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-childrens","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n