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Cécile Frot-Coutaz is the CEO of Sky Studios & Chief Content Officer for Sky. She is responsible for all of Sky’s content offering, excluding Sky Sports, across the UK & Ireland, as well as Sky’s news services across EMEA including Sky News UK and TG24 in Italy.
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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...
In July 2018, FremantleMedia North America CEO Jennifer Mullin was named the new CEO of the worldwide company, replacing the outgoing Cecile Frot-Coutaz. Fremantle (2018–present)
Jan 18, 2021 · In 2019, she left her position as the CEO of Fremantle, one of the world’s biggest TV production companies, which has developed everything from American Idol to Deutschland 83 (and where she’d...
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Mar 30, 2022 · Frot-Coutaz went on to spend more than 20 years at Fremantle, producing shows that doubled as cultural touchstones including “American Idol,” “The X Factor USA” and “America’s Got Talent,”...
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Cécile Frot-Coutaz. Producer: American Idol. Cécile Frot-Coutaz is the Chief Executive Officer of Sky Studios, Sky's Europe-wide development, production and commissioning arm for Sky Original comedy and drama.
