{"id":1889,"date":"2018-09-18T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/peter-smith-lead-mbc-studios\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:25:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:25:24","slug":"peter-smith-to-lead-mbc-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/peter-smith-to-lead-mbc-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Smith to Lead MBC Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MBC Group has launched MBC Studios, a new subsidiary focusing on film and TV production in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, led by Peter Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Smith joined the company earlier this month as managing director of MBC Studios. He previously held positions such as president of international home Entertainment at Universal Pictures, president of NBCUniversal International, CEO of the scripted business of Cineflix, and managing director of Antenna Group.<\/p>\n<p>MBC Group CEO Sam Barnett commented: \u201cContent is the fuel that drives the success of both MBC television and Shahid.net, our VOD platform. Building on the group\u2019s successes in drama, we are now expanding our ambition and widening our horizons yet further. I am delighted to welcome Peter Smith to MBC Group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith said: \u201cI am delighted to join MBC Group and lead its new subsidiary, MBC Studios. I look forward to working under Mr. Barnett\u2019s leadership and closely with some of the brightest colleagues in the industry. The future is certainly positive for MBC Studios especially in terms of leveraging the significant trend for non-English-language television content to travel to more global markets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBC Group has launched MBC Studios, a new subsidiary focusing on film and TV production in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, led by Peter Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[115,413,414],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-mbc-group","tag-mbc-studios","tag-peter-smith"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peter Smith to Lead MBC Studios - TVMEA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MBC Group has launched MBC Studios, a new subsidiary focusing on film and TV production in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, led by Peter Smith.\" \/>\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\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/peter-smith-to-lead-mbc-studios\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Smith to Lead MBC Studios - 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