Shine TV Alum Tapped to Lead Zinc Television

Tanya Shaw has been named managing director for Zinc Television, taking on leadership for labels such as Blakeway, Brook Lapping, Films of Record, Red Sauce and Supercollider.

Shaw has been serving as managing director of Shine TV. She is an award-winning former factual commissioning editor and executive producer. At Zinc, she will be responsible for the company’s TV labels based in London and Manchester and accelerating the growth of premium unscripted content across the group.

Taking up the post in November, Shaw will report to Mark Browning, CEO of Zinc Media Group.

Browning said: “Tanya is one of the most outstanding creative and commercial heads in the U.K., widely recognized as an inspirational and engaging leader. She has built an outstanding network of contacts, both domestically and internationally, and has a rich track record of program-making. Our London and Regional teams have had a huge amount of success recently, with commissions across the full range of factual, but there is so much more we can achieve. Tanya’s creative leadership and her passion for creating impactful, innovative content make her the ideal person to lead our creative teams.”

Shaw added: “Zinc’s creative richness and premium quality is renowned worldwide. Their companies make outstanding programming that resonates around the world, and I’m looking forward to helping drive their growth plans, diversifying their customer base and strengthening their already-world-class creative team. It is clear that Zinc is a company that is now going places, and I’m thrilled to be joining at such an exciting moment in their growth journey.”