BBC Studios Taps 8Hours Founder

BBC Studios Productions has hired Adeline Ramage Rooney, who founded 8Hours Television, as creative director for factual entertainment and events in Scotland.

Ramage Rooney has created, adapted and served as executive producer on numerous U.S. prime-time network hits, including Emergency Call for ABC and Hotel Hell, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior and Kitchen Nightmares for FOX. She founded the Los Angeles-based production company 8Hours TV in 2018 after seven years as a creator and showrunner on multiple projects with Gordon Ramsay and All3Media’s One Potato Two Potato.

At BBC Studios Productions, Ramage Rooney will be charged with supporting growth in Scotland by building more capability in the market for the genre, winning more business and providing a strategic approach to delivering new and existing IP that can be produced from the nation. Based at its Glasgow hub, she will report to Hannah Wyatt, managing director for factual entertainment and events at BBC Studios Productions

Wyatt said: “We’re particularly fortunate to have Adeline and her wealth of experience on both sides of the pond not only joining BBC Studios Productions—but also overseeing growth in a crucial location for fact ent and events. I’m excited to see what projects are nurtured and born out of Glasgow over the next few years under her wing.”

Ramage Rooney added: “I’m so excited to be back on home turf after more than two decades in LA and London. Scotland is a brilliant place for ambitious TV creatives to live and collaborate and, with so much universal commitment to the nation’s capability and output, I couldn’t resist the challenge to scale BBC Studios’ fact-ent business north of the border. I thoroughly relish the opportunity to work with Hannah and the team and can’t wait to cook up some new monster hits!”