Sky Studios Elevates Barnaby Shingleton to Factual Chief

Sky Studios, Sky’s production and development arm across Europe, has upped Barnaby Shingleton to the post of director of factual.

In his new position, Shingleton will take on overall responsibility for Sky Studios’ commercial investment, deficit funding and international distribution of Sky Original documentaries, alongside third-party-funded projects for other broadcasters produced by Sky Studios’ production companies.

Shingleton’s remit has expanded to include direct responsibility for the Sky Studios portfolio of eight factual production companies in the U.K. and U.S. These include Love Productions, creators of The Great British Bake Off; Jupiter Entertainment; Blast! Films; Transistor Films; Talos Films; True to Nature; Catalina Content; and True North.

Shingleton will work to secure commercial and development relationships with factual producers and talent, with the aim of developing projects that may be commissioned by Sky’s territories across Europe. He will work closely with Sky’s factual commissioning teams across Sky UK, Germany and Italy.

Currently director of documentaries, Shingleton will now report to Sky Studios CEO, Gary Davey, and incoming CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz, when she joins the business this September.

Prior to Sky Studios, Shingleton was director of entertainment and factual at Sky Vision, where he oversaw and managed the non-scripted catalog at Sky’s former sales arm that was folded into NBCUniversal Global Distribution in October 2019. Previously, he was head of entertainment at Zodiak Rights/RDF, now part of Banijay Group.