{"id":11828,"date":"2018-11-02T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/plimsoll-names-richard-klein-head-documentaries-u-k-international\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:38:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:38:27","slug":"plimsoll-names-richard-klein-head-of-documentaries-for-u-k-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/plimsoll-names-richard-klein-head-of-documentaries-for-u-k-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Plimsoll Hires BBC &#038; ITV Alum Richard Klein for Documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plimsoll Productions has appointed Academy Award-winning documentarian Richard Klein as head of documentaries for the U.K. and international.<\/p>\n<p>During his career, Klein has produced more than 100 documentaries and has led factual commissioning at the BBC and ITV and run BBC Four. His credits include the Academy Award-winning <em>Man on Wire<\/em>, as well as <em>The White Season<\/em>, <em>The Verdict<\/em>, <em>Life at the Extreme<\/em>, <em>Britain From Above<\/em>, <em>When Ant and Dec Met the Queen<\/em> and <em>Britain\u2019s Most Historic Towns<\/em>. He also oversaw the multi-award-winning Storyville strand for the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Tom Hugh-Jones has been promoted to creative director of natural history and Jonathan Jackson to finance and commercial director. Chris Williams has been appointed as series producer. All will work out of the company\u2019s headquarters in Bristol with Klein reporting directly to Chief Executive Grant Mansfield, Hugh-Jones to Head of Natural History Martha Holmes, Jackson to COO Christine Owen and Williams to Head of Factual Entertainment Karen Plumb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese important appointments reflect Plimsoll\u2019s continued expansion and the wealth of new opportunities available to the company domestically and internationally,\u201d said Mansfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrant is a brilliant creative talent who I have long admired and worked with in one capacity or another for many years, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with him and the entire Plimsoll team,\u201d added Klein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plimsoll Productions has appointed Academy Award-winning documentarian Richard Klein as head of documentaries for the U.K. and international.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":11829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[641],"class_list":["post-11828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-plimsoll-productions","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Plimsoll Hires BBC &amp; 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