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The company has hired former Catalina Content executive Brent Jacoby to lead a new division that will leverage existing Skybound IP, including AMC Smash. the walking dead and Amazon Prime Video invincible.
Jacoby is focused on rapidly expanding unscripted TV globally, but Skybound did not delve further into his strategy. He joins the company at the same time as Chris Goble, a former MGM TV vice president who will take on the newly created role of vice president of television. Both will report directly to Television President Glenn Geller.
Jacoby joins from Sky Studios-backed Catalina, where he developed work including: mighty weaklings For Discovery+. Previously at ITV America, he led the development team at Outpost Entertainment and worked at Discovery, A&E, Food Network, Science Channel, including History’s, and more. knife or death.
Goble joins Skybound from Amazon’s Prime Video via the MGM merger, joining the important genre universe group under Matt King.During his tenure at Prime Video, he criminal In addition to the work of Ed Brubaker and co-showrunner Jordan Harper, he has also worked on several high-profile MGM titles, including: Robocop. Prior to joining Prime Video, Mr. Goble worked as Vice President of Development at MGM TV under the Orion banner.
Skybound has expanded in a number of areas recently, garnering international attention with shows such as Prime Video’s Scandinavian thriller. Vaka. It recently opened in Japan and invested in a French indie run by former French television commissioner Médéric Albuis.
