Natural historical past producer Plimsoll Productions has appointed main codecs and distribution government Andrea Jackson as its new artistic director of factual leisure.

Jackson will report on to CEO Grant Mansfield, and will likely be becoming a member of the Plimsoll government management group. In her new function, she is going to develop, bundle and function government producer throughout codecs and factual content material. She has an extended historical past with the corporate, have transitioned from her function at Magnify Media, the unbiased distribution home she based, led and offered to Plimsoll in 2020.

Establishing Magnify Media in 2015, Jackson collaborated with rights house owners and labored throughout unscripted and scripted genres and codecs to license to networks and streamers all through the worldwide market, together with Netflix, Disney+, Discovery+, SVT, TV2 Denmark, SBS Broadcasting, Nippon, BBC, France Television, TVNZ and Foxtel.

As a part of Plimsoll Productions’ acquisition by ITV Studios, Magnify Media will absolutely combine into the ITV Studios distribution enterprise in 2023.

Prior to launching Magnify Media, Jackson spent eight years as managing director of acquisitions and codecs for DRG, which was offered to Modern Times Group (MTG). There, she labored on international format hits and with a number of dozen manufacturing firms.

Jackson additionally grew the corporate’s format enterprise with titles equivalent to “15 to 1,” “Don’t Tell the Bride” and “Doc Martin.”

Before DRG, she co-founded and served as managing director of Zeal Entertainment, which was acquired by DRG. At Zeal, she ran the worldwide enterprise and secured the rights to the dwell occasion “Miss World” – one of the vital broadly distributed international occasions – and “The Singing Bee,” which was licensed to 35 international territories.

Mansfield stated: “We’ve been great admirers of Andrea for years and have had the fortune to collaborate with her on many endeavors while she led the charge at Magnify Media. We’re eager to lean into her robust formats and distribution experience, her deep relationships, specifically within the U.K. and U.S. markets, and her unparalleled knowledge of the global marketplace.”

Jackson added: “I’m beyond honored and overjoyed to join Grant and the incredible team at Plimsoll who share my vision for creating unique and meaningful content to resonate with viewers across the global landscape. I’m excited about the limitless opportunities that are ahead.”

Plimsoll is at present in manufacturing on “The Ascent with Alex Honnold” and “Great Migrations” for National Geographic/Disney+ and “A Year on Planet Earth” (Fox). Most just lately, the corporate premiered the James Cameron-executive produced and Benedict Cumberbatch-narrated “Super/Natural” for National Geographic/Disney+.