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BBC Studios has named Seven.One Studios’ Rose Hughes as its Senior Vice President for Global Format Sales.

Hughes will lead the sales strategy for unscripted and scripted formats at the BBC’s production and distribution wing, reporting into Jacob de Boer, EVP Global Entertainment.

The appointment marks a return to the BBC for Hughes, who was Senior Sales Executive, Formats Licensing for the Nordics and Benelux in a previous run. She’ll begin the new post in February ahead of the BBC Studios Showcase in London.

At ProSiebenSat.1-owned Seven.One Studios, she is VP of Sales, working with the likes of Married at First Sight creator Snowman and secured the second international order of Stranded on Honeymoon Island with Seven Network in Australia, along with a commission on BBC One in the UK. She also oversaw CBS’s deal to pilot a U.S. version of German scripted format Einstein.

Exclusive: U.S. execs headed to the inaugural Scripted Israel event in LA in September can expect to meet 17 prominent Israeli producers and a host of talent and writers.

Organizers have unveiled the line-up of participating companies at the event, which is aimed at uniting top Israeli talent and producers with major U.S. entertainment execs.

Among those signed up are MoviePlus Productions, which co-produced HBO drama Our Boys; Dori Media, which produced Apple TV+’s Losing Alice; Spiro Films, whose drama When Heroes Fly was picked up by Netflix; and Koda Communications, which made the scripted series that HBO’s Your Honor was based on.

Key screenwriters in attendance will include Nir Berger (Dead End), Omri Van Essen (Tehran) and Tehila Peter-Dansker. See the full lists below.

Hosted by the Consulates General of Israel in Los Angeles and New York, Scripted Israel will be held on September 19-22.

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