EXCLUSIVE: Huge Discuss Studios, producer of Amazon/BBC sequence The Outlaws, has turned to Brontë Movie & TV to seek out its first artistic director of drama.
Jenny van der Lande will be a part of Huge Discuss within the newly-created function having developed all six seasons of J.Okay. Rowling’s BBC/Max sequence Strike, starring Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger.
Alongside her artistic director duties at Brontë, she has additionally led the editorial facet of Snowed-In Productions, overseeing tasks together with ITVX’s upcoming Sophie Turner sequence Joan and Mrs Wilson, the BBC’s Ruth Wilson drama.
Becoming a member of in June, Van der Lande will report back to Huge Discuss CEO Kenton Allen and work intently with Luke Alkin, drama government producer. She’s going to cut up her time between London and Bristol, and is tasked with rising the ITV Studios-backed firm’s drama slate.
Allen mentioned: “She brings a wealth of expertise and relationships and has an extremely sharp and strategic thoughts. Our expertise of manufacturing high-impact reveals on reasonable budgets mixed with Jenny’s improbable editorial mind will allow us to construct on the success of reveals like The Outlaws.”
Van der Lande added: “I’m happy with all the pieces Ruth [Kenley-Letts] and I’ve achieved at Brontë and Snowed-In and I’ll miss everybody massively but it surely’s time for a brand new journey. Kenton’s enthusiasm is infectious and it’s straightforward to know why Huge Discuss make such entertaining reveals stuffed with coronary heart, humanity, and wit.”
She beforehand developed the BAFTA-nominated London Spy whereas working as a growth government for Working Title Tv. She was additionally sequence editor of BBC present Casualty.
Season 3 of Stephen Service provider’s The Outlaws premieres on Could 30 on the BBC and a day in a while Amazon Prime Video. Huge Discuss not too long ago produced The Fully Made-up Adventures of Dick Turpin for Apple TV+.