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  • Sony Pictures Television appoints Jennifer Rogers Doyle as EVP of franchise management

    Sony Pictures Television appoints Jennifer Rogers Doyle as EVP of franchise management

    MUMBAI:  Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has appointed Jennifer Rogers Doyle as executive vice president of franchise management, a newly created role aimed at maximising the value of the company’s intellectual properties (IP).

    Effective immediately, Rogers Doyle will lead SPT’s franchise strategy, collaborating across divisions to drive revenue opportunities for key titles such as Cobra Kai, For All Mankind, The Boys, Outlander, Messi and the Giants, and Bewitched. She will report directly to SPT Studios president Katherine Pope and be based at the Culver City lot.

    Rogers Doyle joins SPT after a 20-year tenure at Disney, where she most recently served as senior vice president of franchise, licensing, and integrated planning. Her work spanned projects for Disney Entertainment Networks, Disney Channel, 20th Television & Animation, FX, and ABC, with content streaming across Disney+ and Hulu.

    During her time at Disney, she managed franchises for preschool favourites including Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Doc McStuffins, tween hits like Hannah Montana and High School Musical, and adult properties including Percy Jackson, Family Guy, and The Bear. She previously held roles at Warner Bros Consumer Products and Landmark Entertainment group.

    “With our ever-expanding series universes, we are focused on enhancing fan engagement and driving long-term IP value,” said Katherine Pope. “Jennifer’s expertise in franchise development makes her the perfect fit for this role. We are thrilled to have her join the team.”

    Rogers Doyle commented: “Sony Pictures has an incredible portfolio of classic and new IP. I am excited to collaborate with Katherine and the team to extend this storytelling beyond the screen through products, experiences, and social activations that deepen fan loyalty.”

  • Colors Infinity steals the show at the 73 Golden Globe Awards with four big wins

    Colors Infinity steals the show at the 73 Golden Globe Awards with four big wins

    MUMBAI: Colors Infinity wins big at the 73 Annual Golden Globe Awards with two of its shows. The critically acclaimed TV series of 2015, Mr. Robot, bagged the coveted title of best TV series drama against shows like Empire, Narcos, Outlander and the biggest competitor, Game of Thrones.

     

    Contending with such popular series for the award makes the win all that much more of a coup for the new series, which has completed only its first season. On the other hand, Mozart tn the Jungle, which will soon air on the channel, picked up the best TV series musical or comedy.  

     

    Mr. Robot, written and directed by Sam Esmail, gained a loyal fan base this year for its gritty depiction of the world of hacking. The show gained immense popularity in India through its instant premiere on Colors Infinity, a channel which is known to handpick the best of international content, bringing highly acclaimed never seen before series to India. The director accepted the award with a mix of quirk and grace, saying, “I got to thank the Hollywood foreign press. I mean, they gave the best drama series award to a show called Mr. Robot. And that took a lot of courage, so thank you.”

     

    In addition, Christian Slater also won the best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television for his role in Mr. Robot, while Gael Garcia Bernal bagged the best performance by an actor in a television series musical or comedy for his role in Mozart in the Jungle.

  • Being a lean aggressive company has helped us, says Sony’s Steve Mosko

    Being a lean aggressive company has helped us, says Sony’s Steve Mosko

    CANNES: Right from the hit series Breaking Bad to the new show on the block, Outlander, Sony has been in the middle of it all. And taking the centre stage for the first master keynote at MIPCOM 2014 was Sony Pictures Television president Steve Mosko.  

     

    He set the right tone for his keynopte by saying, “Our buyers have doubled due to the digital feed.” With business spanning around TV channels, production and distribution, where does he fit? Answered Mosko, “When people think of Sony, they think of multi-platform. On TV we have found that our independence has helped us in the US. People say, you cannot exist as a standalone. We have 30 original shows on air with 14 networks.       Internationally being a lean aggressive company has helped us.”

     

    Mosko believes that a number of great ideas come from the smart creative development people. “World is becoming consolidated and this also increases work in order to put everything together,” he opined.

     

    Delving on piracy he said that while one cannot control piracy but can minimise it. “We have done a couple of things to minimise it. So we have instilled tight controls, where we do the dubbing, subtitling et or a show.”

     

    Sony, from a business solution point of view, is working with its partners across to ensure that the shows are aired closer to the US telecast dates. “We cannot limit pirates, we just have to minimise it,” he added.

     

    Mosko during his keynote also spoke about selling shows to new digital buyers globally. “Added competition makes everyone better. We have seen our buyers double around the globe, in the past five years,” he said.

     

    Mentioning the growth of Netflix he said, “The platform has gone from zero to where it is today. Media companies are observant of what is happening in the US, for us, all this given us more buyers and makes us more creative.”

     

    He is firm believer of the fact that it is the content that drives platforms. Talking about Sony Pictures within Sony he said, “There has never been a time when different parts of the company have worked so closely. Within the company we are working closely to maximise the business.”

     

    Sony Pictures currently is doing big budget TV shows on playstation “and the budget is equal to what we are doing on cable TV. We have been working towards making the model work,” he informed.

     

    Mosko said that everyone takes pride in being in the TV business. “TV experience is great now. Sony is making investments in 4K to enhance quality of content. This goes a long way to convince people to be in the TV business,” he said.

     

    During his keynote, he pointed out that tax benefits to shoot in different countries act as a great booster.

     

    Talking about the millennial kids, he said that they are not obliged to watch content when they are told to watch. “There is more opportunity to watch content today,” he said, adding that TV viewing is going up because of the great content.

  • Euro RSCG wins Rs 350 million Mitsubishi creative account

    Euro RSCG wins Rs 350 million Mitsubishi creative account

    MUMBAI: Mitsubishi Motors has awarded its creative duties worth Rs 300-350 million to Euro RSCG India.

    The account that was won following a multi agency pitch will be handled out of the agency‘s Mumbai office. All the brands of the Japanese car maker are now with the agency.

    Contract Advertising was the incumbent agency on the account.

    According to a senior official, the Japanese car maker will be getting more aggressive on the digital front and will be promoting its various brands including Montero, Outlander, Pajero, Cedia and Lancer across non-conventional mediums.

    “For years, Mitsubishi has been doing bare minimum and now with this shift, we have envisaged a paradigm shift from this position and find the right balance,” he said.