The Strolling Useless maker Skybound Leisure is pushing into the unscripted sport.
The agency has employed ex-Catalina Content material exec Brent Jacoby to move up the brand new division, which can faucet into pre-existing Skybound IP resembling AMC smash The Strolling Useless and Amazon Prime Video’s Invincible.
Jacoby can be centered on shortly increasing the worldwide unscripted TV slate, though Skybound didn’t delve any deeper into his technique. He joins similtaneously former MGM TV VP Chris Goble, who takes up the newly-created SVP of Tv position. Each will report back to TV President Glenn Geller.
Jacoby joins from Sky Studios-backed Catalina the place he developed the likes of The Mighty Underdogs for Discovery+. Previous to that, he led the event group for ITV America’s Outpost Leisure, working for the likes of Discovery, A&E, Meals Community and Science Channel together with Historical past’s Knife or Dying.
Goble involves Skybound from Amazon’s Prime Video by way of the MGM merger, the place he joined the tentpole, style and universe group beneath Matt King. Throughout his tenure at Prime Video, he oversaw Legal by Ed Brubaker and co-showrunner Jordan Harper, in addition to a number of high-profile MGM titles resembling Robocop. Previous to Prime Video, Goble labored beneath the Orion banner at MGM TV as VP of Growth.
Skybound has been increasing on a number of fronts of late and is trying worldwide, with reveals resembling Prime Video Scandi thriller VAKA. It opened in Japan lately and invested within the French indie run by former France Télévisions commissioner Médéric Albouy.