{"id":14657,"date":"2020-06-12T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/avalon-taps-channel-4-alum-creative-director-factual\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:07:44","slug":"avalon-taps-channel-4-alum-as-creative-director-for-factual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/avalon-taps-channel-4-alum-as-creative-director-for-factual\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalon Taps Channel 4 Alum as Creative Director for Factual"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gill Wilson, who spent six years at Channel 4 as head of features and daytime, has joined Avalon as creative director for factual.<\/p>\n
At Channel 4, Wilson also spent a year consulting on nations and regions strategy. Starting her career as a producer at BBC Manchester, Wilson went on to co-found The Undateables<\/em> producer Betty, joined Endemol for eight years as a format creator (Snog Marry Avoid<\/em> and Hotter Than My Daughter<\/em>), and worked at Spun Gold as director of formats and features.<\/p>\n Jamie Isaacs, CEO at Avalon Factual, said: \u201cGill\u2019s hugely impressive reputation for quality factual television that audiences love made me keen to collaborate with her for many years, and I couldn\u2019t be more delighted she\u2019s chosen to bring her exceptional creative energy to Avalon.\u201d<\/p>\n Wilson added: \u201cI\u2019m very excited to be working with Jamie and the team to develop our factual slate and to add to the company\u2019s ground-breaking shows and formats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gill Wilson, who spent six years at Channel 4 as head of features and daytime, has joined Avalon as creative director for factual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":14658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2349,4962],"class_list":["post-14657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-avalon","tag-gill-wilson","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n