{"id":11447,"date":"2018-07-16T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/former-channel-4-exec-joins-shiver-head-factual-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2018-07-16T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:23:32","slug":"former-channel-4-exec-joins-shiver-to-head-up-factual-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/former-channel-4-exec-joins-shiver-to-head-up-factual-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Channel 4 Exec Joins Shiver to Head Up Factual Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"
Shiver has appointed Simone Haywood, commissioning editor at Channel 4, to the newly created position of head of factual entertainment.<\/p>\n
Haywood has been responsible for commissioning hit shows such as E4\u2019s Celebs Go Dating<\/em>, Tattoo Fixers<\/em> and Too Posh To Parent<\/em>. Now, she will work with Group Creative Director Ana De Moraes and her new development team to create returnable formats with Shiver.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone’s knows Simone is the rising star of factual entertainment and I’ve watched her career with growing admiration ever since the pitch-perfect CBBC format Operation Ouch!<\/em>\u201d said Tim Carter, managing director. \u201cThe shows she’s commissioned and nurtured since then are those rarest and most beautiful of things: innovative, distinct, loved by their (large) audiences and commercially successful.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI couldn\u2019t turn down the opportunity to join Shiver at what is a very exciting time for the label right now,\u201d said Haywood. \u201cI\u2019ve had an incredibly creative and enjoyable time at Channel 4 working with great people and I am proud of the shows that I\u2019ve commissioned and helped grow into returning brands, but I can\u2019t wait to work with Tim, Ana and the team at Shiver to help create a brilliant and bold new generation of factual entertainment series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shiver has appointed Simone Haywood, commissioning editor at Channel 4, to the newly created position of head of factual entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":11448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1175],"class_list":["post-11447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-shiver","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n