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ITV appoints Paul Buccieri President and CEO of Granada America
18/12/2007
ITV today announced the appointment of Paul Buccieri as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Granada America. He joins ITV from FOX's Twentieth Television where he was President of Programming, Production and Development.
As CEO Paul will head up a team of talented producers in the US, on both the West and East coasts, with a remit to further develop ITV's growing US business interests through the creation of new series and formats. He'll also be responsible for the exploitation of other ITV formats created in the company's production centres in the UK, Germany and Australia. Buccieri will also have a seat on the board of Jaffe Braunstein Entertainment, Granada's partner in the scripted business in US. Buccieri will be based in Granada America's Los Angeles operation.
The role reports into ITV's Managing Director of Global Content, Dawn Airey, and replaces David Gyngell who returned to Australia earlier this year to become Chief Executive of the Nine Network.
Granada America is one of the biggest international producers for the US market and a major force in acquiring, developing and producing a wide range of entertainment, factual and other non-scripted series for a number of US broadcast and cable networks. Current Granada America productions include Fox's Hell's Kitchen, last summer's number one programme; Nanny 911 and Kitchen Nightmares for Fox; Phenomenon for NBC; The First 48and SWATfor A&E; and Celebrity Fit Clubfor VH1.
Dawn Airey, said:
“I am delighted that we have attracted someone of Paul's
calibre to this important position. This is a critical role in
ensuring ITV's international growth by creating and delivering
high-quality content to American audiences and Paul has a superb
track record in producing hit shows for the US networks. Building
on the success of the team there, we want Granada America to grow
even further and I look forward to working closely with Paul to
deliver that growth.”
Paul Buccieri said:
“Granada America is a leading international producer for
the US market and I'm very excited to be joining this great company
and work with Dawn and its talented team in L.A., New York and
London. This represents a great opportunity for me to work with one
of the world's best media companies and I'm looking forward to
further building Granada America's success in non-scripted while
expanding its interests in other areas.”
Ends.
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Paul Buccieri CV
Paul Buccieri is a senior television executive and executive producer in the entertainment industry with over seventeen years experience in the industry.
In the last two years at Twentieth Television as President of Programming, Production & Development Paul has overseen 16 series and 25 specials, including America's Most Wanted to Divorce Court to World MusicAwardsto Decision House and NFL Network Total Access. Prior to joining Twentieth Television he signed a three-year deal with Endemol USA in 2002, and developed, produced, and translated foreign formats for network shows such as Anything for Love, Performing As… and The Next Great Champ for FOX, and I Want To Be a Hilton and Finding Mr. Right for NBC.
ITV Global Content
Led by Dawn Airey, ITV Global Content is ITV's content division bringing together all of ITV's UK and international production and content businesses.
ITV Productions is one of Europe's leading commercial production companies producing more than 3,000 hours of original programming each year. It is responsible for some of the most popular brands on UK television including Coronation Street, Emmerdale, I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, Dancing on Ice and Prime Suspect. It also produces highly-rated work for other channels such as The Street and The Royle Family for the BBC, Brainiac for Sky and Countdown and Longford for Channel 4. ITV Productions also made the successful, critically-acclaimed and Oscar winning feature film of 2006, The Queen.
ITV Worldwide is made up of Granada International, Granada Ventures and international production centres in America, Germany and Australia. Granada International sells thousands of hours of programming from ITV Productions, and many other independent producers, to more than 200 countries worldwide. Granada Ventures is a major distributor of DVD entertainment in the UK and exploits merchandising and licensing in the UK and worldwide from both ITV Productions’ bank of television programmes and other independent rights owners.
On 5th December 2007 ITV announced the acquisition of 12 Yard, a leading UK producer of entertainment quiz formats for both the UK and international market. ITV also owns a 25% equity holding in independent producer Mammoth and exclusive distribution and development rights. Through Granada America ITV owns a controlling 51% stake in US production company Jaffe/Braunstein Entertainment LLC.