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May 13, 2021 · May 13, 2021 2:00am. Cecile Frot-Coutaz Courtesy of Sky Studios. Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky has named Cécile Frot-Coutaz, former CEO of Fremantle and currently head of...
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Oct 15, 2023 · Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of Sky Studios, the scripted production arm of Comcast’s European giant Sky, has been busy. The French industry leader has continued to expand her purview since taking...
- Stakes Sky High
- Making Sense of Sky Studios
- Getting “Mangled” in Sky Machine
- Frot-Coutaz’S Creative Involvement
- Ruthless Cancelations
- Fewer, Bigger, Better
- The HBO Crown
The stakes are high. Concerns are growing louder about whether Comcast exercised good judgement in spending $39B on Sky in 2018. The U.S. media giant wrote $8.6B off Sky’s value last year and there is undimmed chatter pertaining to the sale of its German and Italian divisions. The jury is out on Sky Glass, satellite dish-free smart TVs unveiled by ...
Davey set up Sky Studios in June 2019 with an ambition to commission scripted series for Sky’s UK, German, and Italian operations, but those familiar with its beginnings say it was confusingly conceived and poorly communicated to the wider industry, and this still ripples today. As recently as March, Frot-Coutaz was explaining how Sky Studios works...
Frot-Coutaz has introduced more structure to Sky Studios’ commissioning processes, including an approval tick system. Increased discipline is Frot-Coutaz’s effort to create clarity, but it appears to be having the opposite effect. Some of the UK’s top showrunners complain of stodgy decision-making and say they have difficulty convincing writers tha...
There is talk of Frot-Coutaz giving notes on scripts and having input on casting, much to the bemusement of producers who say that she is not a creative by her own admission. Sky insiders acknowledge that Frot-Coutaz has been involved in creative processes, but now wants to take more of an “oversight” role after assembling her top commissioning tea...
Sources say Frot-Coutaz is being ruthless with Sky’s slate and is unafraid to make difficult decisions. She recently canceled A Town Called Malice to the surprise of producers who were gearing up for a second season of the Spanish crime drama from The Football Factorywriter Nick Love. One source says that not everyone in Sky’s UK channels team was ...
One strategic shift Sky does acknowledge is a refocusing of its resources into a smaller number of projects. Only last year, CEO Dana Strong was boasting about its 200 originals, but this rhetoric has changed since then to “fewer, bigger better” — an increasingly familiar refrain among content gatekeepers. Frot-Coutaz says 2024 will be an “importan...
If Jackal is a hit, it is the kind of show that will stand alongside HBO content on Sky. Chernobyl, Gangs of London and Save Me are the only UK originals to have broken into the top 10 shows on Sky Atlantic, home to HBO’s top-end series, including White Lotus and Succession. The ratings serve as a reminder of HBO’s world-class content, but there ar...
Mar 23, 2023 · Sky Studios CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz has called the plethora of shows on the market “really confusing” for viewers. In a keynote interview at Series Mania today, Frot-Coutaz addressed...
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Jan 25, 2022 · Sky Studios CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Variety International Achievement in Television Award, to be presented at global content market MipTV in...
Mar 21, 2018 · Christopher Patey. In a shock move, Cecile Frot-Coutaz has announced her resignation as CEO of FremantleMedia, one of the world’s leading television production companies, to join YouTube....
