{"id":21632,"date":"2024-06-24T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:17:12","slug":"expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectation Hires New Head for Factual Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expectation has tapped Sarah Harris as its new head of development for factual and factual drama, effective July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, previously head of development at Sandpaper Films, will oversee the factual and factual drama teams and spearhead the development of documentaries for terrestrial and global streamer markets.<\/p>\n<p>At Sandpaper Films, Harris oversaw projects such as the feature documentary<em> Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate &amp; The Dark Side of the Internet<\/em> for Sky Documentaries, as well as several unannounced projects for Netflix and Channel 4.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, she served as deputy head of development at Raw, where she established its first podcast division and originated and worked across a range of factual programming, including <em>Ripper<\/em>, <em>The Man Who Played with Fire<\/em>, <em>Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi<\/em>, <em>Parole<\/em> and <em>Paddy &amp; Christine: Our Family and Autism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, she served as head of development for Century Films and was a development producer for Minnow Films.<\/p>\n<p>At Expectation, Harris will report to Colin Barr, creative director of factual and factual drama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving admired Expectation\u2019s incredible output from afar for many years, I\u2019m thrilled to be joining such a talented team and to be part of the next exciting phase of the company\u2019s growth,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah is such a dynamic and smart ideas generator and a perfect fit for the factual team at Expectation,\u201d Barr commented. \u201cWherever she\u2019s worked, she\u2019s always added huge value and brings a deep understanding of premium docs and negotiating access, which will be invaluable. She\u2019s also fantastically collaborative and supportive, and I can\u2019t wait to start building a fresh, exciting and ambitious slate with her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expectation has tapped Sarah Harris as its new head of development for factual and factual drama, effective July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":21633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[9668,6413,9669],"class_list":["post-21632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-colin-barr","tag-expectation","tag-sarah-harris","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Expectation Hires New Head for Factual Development - 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\/expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Expectation Hires New Head for Factual Development - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Expectation has tapped Sarah Harris as its new head of development for factual and factual drama, effective July 1.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-24T14:17:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-24T14:17:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/06\/Expectation-SarahHarris-0624.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"369\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\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\/expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development\/\",\"name\":\"Expectation Hires New Head for Factual Development - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-06-24T14:17:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-24T14:17:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/expectation-hires-new-head-for-factual-development\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Expectation Hires New Head for Factual Development\"}]},{\"@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\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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