{"id":13657,"date":"2019-11-11T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T14:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-names-u-s-lead\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:05:16","slug":"zig-zag-names-u-s-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-names-u-s-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Zig Zag Names U.S. Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. indie Zig Zag Productions has appointed Emmy-winning executive producer and showrunner Ronnie Krensel to lead its operations in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>As executive VP of Zig Zag USA, Krensel will be responsible for spearheading Zig Zag\u2019s growing U.S. business, developing and pitching content and branded projects to international streamers, digital platforms and U.S. networks. Based in New York, he will report directly to Zig Zag Productions CEO Danny Fenton.<\/p>\n<p>Krensel\u2019s career has seen him helm comedy, adventure and science shows for TruTV, Discovery, Youtube Red, BBC, ABC, A&amp;E, History, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel, Food HGTV and PBS. His documentary about inner-city education, <em>A Matter of Degrees<\/em>, won an Emmy and Silver Medals at the Toronto and Columbus film festivals. He was also nominated for an Emmy for the Youtube Premium travel and adventure series <em>Finding Football<\/em> last year.<\/p>\n<p>As a development executive, Krensel has created projects for ABC, Food, TLC, ESPN, Discovery, Animal Planet, A&amp;E, Cooking, Bravo UK, and Channel 4 and Channel 5 in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>Fenton said: \u201cWe are delighted to have Ronnie join the team and head up our operation in the U.S. I\u2019ve admired Ronnie\u2019s work for a number of years and his considerable experience will help us expand our U.S. footprint even further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreativity and originality have never been more important in our industry. I\u2019m excited to be joining a group with a 20-year record of creating exciting and innovative content for networks, streamers, digital platforms and advertisers,\u201d added Krensel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. indie Zig Zag Productions has appointed Emmy-winning executive producer and showrunner Ronnie Krensel to lead its operations in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":13658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4404,496],"class_list":["post-13657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-ronnie-krensel","tag-zig-zag-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>Zig Zag Names U.S. Lead - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-names-u-s-lead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zig Zag Names U.S. Lead - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The U.K. indie Zig Zag Productions has appointed Emmy-winning executive producer and showrunner Ronnie Krensel to lead its operations in the U.S.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-names-u-s-lead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-11T14:48:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-11T16:05:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/Ronnie-Krensel-Zig-Zag-1119.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"374\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alison Skilton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alison Skilton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-names-u-s-lead\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-names-u-s-lead\/\",\"name\":\"Zig Zag Names U.S. Lead - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-11T14:48:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-11T16:05:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/f590d4d1481b8cce2a066e89197c7550\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-names-u-s-lead\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-names-u-s-lead\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-names-u-s-lead\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Zig Zag Names U.S. Lead\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/f590d4d1481b8cce2a066e89197c7550\",\"name\":\"Alison Skilton\",\"description\":\"Alison Skilton is an associate editor of World Screen. 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