BBC Studios appoints SVP Scripted and SVP Factual for EMEA

Ahead of Mipcom 2023, BBC Studios announced that Chris Kinsman and Rebecca Ransley have been promoted to the newly created roles of Senior Vice President Factual and Senior Vice President Scripted for BBC Studios’ Content Sales Markets EMEA, respectively.

Based in London and reporting to Nick Percy, President of Global Markets, Kinsman and Ransley will lead the teams responsible for co-production and finished tape sales across all EMEA markets, setting the sales strategy and directing co-production and content financing opportunities for their respective genres. They will work closely with BBC Studios’ content sales leads across Global Markets and North America, as well as with BBC Studios Production leadership.

“Both Chris and Rebecca bring a wealth of experience and expertise to their new roles, which have been created to reflect the evolving needs of our business. With these promotions I am delighted to be able to recognise the quality of their leadership and the strength and expertise of our sales teams,”  Nick Percy commented.

“For a number of years, Rebecca and I have worked alongside each other, so we are delighted to be jointly leading the integrated EMEA sales team with these new roles and we are looking forward to unlocking further opportunities for our world class factual and scripted programming,”  Chris Kinsman declared.

“With BBC Studios’ ambitious growth plans and growing pipeline it is the perfect time to have refreshed our team structure in line with the company’s objectives allowing closer and richer conversations with our partners,”  Rebecca Ransley added.

Kinsman has spent almost twenty years nurturing key strategic relationships for the EMEA region at BBC Studios. Having worked across sales and co-productions in France and content sales in Italy and Iberia, he then went on to lead the Western Europe Content Sales team for Factual. Over the course of his time at BBC Studios, he has led commercial partnerships across key EMEA markets for Factual, overseen the negotiations and delivered multiple co-productions for key BBC Studios’ content and fostered long lasting partnerships.

With over a decade of experience within roles at BBC Studios, Ransley has managed sales teams across multiple EMEA markets working with both local and global partners. Over recent years, she has worked closely on BBC Studios’ scripted output and its sales strategy across EMEA, ensuring a natural progression into her new role. Prior to her time at BBC Studios, Ransley held a variety of commercial and production roles at the BBC including at BBC Panorama.