Character 7, the London-based prodco set up by The Night Manager and Spooks executive producer Stephen Garrett, has appointed Anna Higgs as managing director. 

Keshet International, the content proruction and distribution arm of Israel’s Keshet, has acquired an unscripted food series hosted by Gavin Rossdale, lead singer and songwriter of Bush, for international distribution.  

London-based prodco After Party Studios has added a head of entertainment and executive producer from Wall of Entertainment and Raw TV to its creative team.

Picking Scabs, the Australian joint venture production company between See-Saw Films and writer/showrunner Samantha Strauss, has hired Shay Spencer as exec producer.

Predictions for the year ahead and where the audience is going from execs including André Renaud at Warner Bros, James Burstall and Joe Weinstock at Argonon, Sharon Levi, MD of Yes Studios in Israel, and The Gurin Company CEO, Phil Gurin.

Sales and distribution executive Prentiss Fraser is returning to US broadcast group Fox as president of Fox Entertainment Global, the company’s worldwide content sales division.

Predictions for the year ahead from unscripted execs including Eline van der Velden at Particle6, Bo Stehmeier at Off the Fence, Tatiana Grinkevich at BossaNova Media and Derek Dyson at Australia’s WTFN.

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European production group Fremantle has signed an extended five-year content agreement with celebrity chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver.

Public broadcaster France Télévisions has commissioned an adaptation of Frank Thilliez’s psychological thriller novel Il Était Deux Fois (Twice Upon a Time).