{"id":21413,"date":"2024-05-15T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/fremantle-bolsters-unscripted-development-team\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:49:18","slug":"fremantle-bolsters-unscripted-development-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/fremantle-bolsters-unscripted-development-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Fremantle Bolsters Unscripted Development Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fremantle has bolstered its unscripted team with the hiring of three new executives, including MGM and Paramount alum Megan McGrath.<\/p>\n<p>McGrath, creator and executive producer of the Netflix competition series <em>Floor is Lava<\/em>, has been named senior VP of unscripted development. Previously, she served as creative consultant at MGM and creative executive at Paramount.<\/p>\n<p>McGrath\u2019s credits include <em>Are You the One?<\/em> (MTV), <em>Dating Naked<\/em> (VH1), <em>All on the Table<\/em> (discovery+) and <em>Twinning<\/em> (VH1).<\/p>\n<p>Fremantle has also tapped Stephanie Valentin and Emily Bon as VPs of unscripted development. Valentin joins from Main Event Media, where she most recently served as VP of creative development and production. While there, she developed and packaged unscripted series for major networks and streaming platforms, including <em>Eye Candy<\/em>. Valentin won a Critics Choice Real TV Award for her co-executive producer work on <em>While Black with MK Asante<\/em>. Bon also joins from Main Event Media, where she was VP of development. She served as an executive producer on <em>Daughters of the Cult<\/em> and was a producer on <em>Girl in the Picture<\/em>. She also co-executive produced <em>Dated &amp; Related<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The three new executives will work with Jimmy Fox, recently named executive VP of unscripted development and sales, to strengthen existing Fremantle properties and develop new programs and formats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFremantle is already the home to some of the world\u2019s best-known titles in the unscripted world, and our team is up to the challenge to identify the next wave of culture-defining series,\u201d Fox said. \u201cWith each of their unique backgrounds and individual perspectives when it comes to ideation, I\u2019m inspired by our ability to create a diverse slate of projects across a wide spectrum of genres for the U.S. market and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fremantle has bolstered its unscripted team with the hiring of three new executives, including MGM and Paramount alum Megan McGrath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":21414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[9512,3226,9067,9513,9514],"class_list":["post-21413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-emily-bon","tag-fremantle","tag-jimmy-fox","tag-megan-mcgrath","tag-stephanie-valentin","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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