Netflix Adds To UK Drama Commissioning Team By Snapping Up AC Chapter One Exec Toby Bentley

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has added to its UK drama commissioning crew by hiring Easiest Pursuits EP Toby Bentley from AC Chapter One.

Bentley no longer too long in the past joined Anne Mensah’s Intercourse Education and The Crown division as Supervisor, UK Sequence, focusing on overseeing reveals popping out of the UK. He experiences to Mona Qureshi and is an addition to the crew.

Bentley joined Netflix from AC Chapter One, the drama indie backed by Nameless Reveal material, Casarotto Ramsay and United Brokers of which he used to be a founding member with Sophie Gardiner 5 years in the past, at which point it used to be referred to as Chapter One Photos. Frail ITV Studios drama lead Patrick Spence has since taken over.

Having worked with Jack Thorne on BAFTA-nominee Skin and Nationwide Take care of prior to Chapter One, he used to be EP on the prolific British scribe’s Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan-starring BBC drama Easiest Pursuits, which aired earlier this yr and told the heartwrenching memoir of a married couple fighting for his or her disabled daughter’s medical care.

He used to be also EP on Netflix’s Boy Swallows Universe, the soon-to-open Australian series about a younger working class boy who enters Brisbane’s underground world in uncover to build his mother’s existence from hazard. AC Chapter One can be making a Crop Payne characteristic adaptation of cookbook Breadsong.

Sooner than AC Chapter One, Bentley worked in the BBC drama commissioning crew and, sooner than that, Skin producer The Forge. He kickstarted his career on No Offence and EastEnders.

Led by Mensah, Netflix’s UK drama commissioning crew consists of the likes of feeble BBC drama commissioner Qureshi, feeble Element Photos exec Anna Ferguson and Alice Pearse.

Upcoming reveals consist of One Day and a drama series about the Lockerbie bombing co-produced with the BBC, though mega-hits The Crown,Top BoyandIntercourse Educationare all coming to an halt after their upcoming seasons, ensuing in the means for ingenious renewal.

The crew gain been out in fleshy force all thru last week’s Edinburgh TV Festival, with Mensah addressing the commissioning slowdown that has hit the UK market in the face of transferring streamer economics by pointing to the “consistency” Netflix has shown by investing an annual $1.5BN on UK announce over fresh years. Commissioners also in most cases known as on producers to pitch extra reveals that comprises iconic girls folks.