LONDON\/DERRY: 360Production, an indie factual producer owned by the Rare TV group, has hired seasoned director and producer Belinda Cherrington as director of U.K. factual, a newly created position.<\/p>\n
Cherrington joins the company from Warner’s Renegade Pictures, where she served in an executive production role focusing on generating specialist factual and access ideas for BBC2, Channel 4 and BBC 4. She has held a number of senior and executive positions at such companies as Lion TV, Films of Record, Mentorn Media, Tigress Productions and Tiger Aspect. She earned a BAFTA nomination for her first directing role, during which she made four episodes of the hit BBC One series Hotel<\/em>.<\/p>\n Cherrington has also worked in development across a variety of factual genres, including such prime-time commissions as BBC Two\u2019s Ben\u2019s Zoo<\/em>, ITV\u2019s Surgery School<\/em>, Channel 4\u2019s Around the World in 80 Trades<\/em>, Discovery\u2019s X-Ray Yellowstone<\/em> and National Geographic Channel\u2019s Crowd Control<\/em>. In 2011, she moved to the U.S., where she opened a development office for Mentorn Media in New York.<\/p>\n Cherrington commented: “From documentary through to specialist factual formats, content-rich factual is becoming increasingly hybrid and broad. This is a real opportunity to inject emotion, process and event across the whole factual slate here at 360.”<\/p>\n Ailsa Orr, 360Production\u2019s creative director, added: \u201cBelinda is a business-winning executive producer with an amazing track record of developing and delivering successful prime-time factual series. She joins at a time when 360 is poised to enter its next phase of growth, which includes popularizing our factual slate as well and developing formats for the U.K. and international market.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LONDON\/DERRY: 360Production, an indie factual producer owned by the Rare TV group, has hired seasoned director and producer Belinda Cherrington as director of U.K. factual, a newly created position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":9191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1225,1572],"class_list":["post-9190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-360production","tag-belinda-cherrington","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n