BBC ‘World On Fireplace’ Exec Helen Ziegler Joins ITV – Deadline

Mammoth Display’s World on Fireplace exec Helen Ziegler has joined the ITV drama commissioning workforce together with two different staffers to develop new streamer ITVX.

Ziegler, a UK drama veteran, will assist lead on the streaming service, which kicked off earlier this month and is aiming to stream one new present per week, with a money injection of £150M ($180M).

She’s going to begin in January 2024 after her maternity depart ends, with former BBC Assistant Commissioner Helen Perry becoming a member of as a Commissioning Editor on a fixed-term contract for the following 12 months. Callum Dziedzic, a Improvement Government at ITV Studios Artistic Director Patrick Spence’s studio, can be becoming a member of ITV as Assistant Commissioner, Drama and Comedy.

Ziegler, who successfully replaces the departing Chloe Tucker, has been working for ITV Studios-backed Mammoth Display for a number of years, throughout which period she has exec produced the likes of BBC One drama World on Fireplace, ITV’s Tom Jones and Hugh Laurie Agatha Christie adaptation Why Didn’t They Ask Evans for BritBox UK.

ITV Head of Drama Polly Hill stated: “With the arrival of ITVX our drama hours are growing considerably, and it means we’re in a position to develop the vary of what we’re providing our viewers within the house of top of the range in style drama, so there’s large alternatives for producers, and it looks like the precise time to develop the workforce.”