ITV Studios Appoints New MD, Unscripted, UK

ITV Studios has named Tim Carter as Managing Director, Unscripted, UK.

Currently CEO of ITV Studios' MultiStory Media and Twofour, Carter takes up the role in the Summer from Angela Jain and will assume responsibility for all of ITV Studios' unscripted business in the UK, which houses 11 unscripted labels, with an impressive award-winning slate of programmes. Tim will report directly to Julian Bellamy, Managing Director ITV Studios and will sit on the UK Management Team.

Between them, the labels are responsible for the creation and production of some of the most successful global formats, including Love Island, The Chase, I'm A Celebrity…..Get Me Out Of Here! and Come Dine with Me, as well as upcoming shows including The Neighbourhood, Celebrity Sabotage and Sharks! Celebrity Infested Waters!

Carter takes on the overall P&L responsibility for the UK unscripted group, with the MDs of the unscripted UK labels reporting directly to him. He will work with each label as well as the wider Studios leadership team to support the continued growth and development of the UK unscripted business.

In his new position, Tim will oversee the UK's successful unscripted labels including Potato (Bulls Eye with Freddie Flintoff and Beat The Chasers), Rollercoaster Television (You Bet! and You Bet! On Tour), Boom (Y Llais - a Welsh language version of the global, multi award-winning hit TV series The Voice); MultiStory Media (7 Up and Brianna: A Mother’s Story), Twofour (I Kissed a Boy / Girl and The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy), The Garden (Squid Game:The Challenge and 24 Hours in A&E), So Television (The Graham Norton Show), Lifted Entertainment (Love Island: All Stars and The Voice), Plimsoll (Extreme Planet Earth and A Real Bug's Life) and Oxford Scientific Films (Magical Land of Oz and Secrets of the Elephants).

Before joining ITV Studios, Tim was CEO of Warner Bros label Twenty Twenty, doubling the size of the company and building hit shows such as First Dates (C4) and The Choir (BBC) into global brands. Tim also pushed Twenty Twenty into scripted, Executive Producing Garrow's Law (BBC), Privates (BBC) and Traitors (C4).

Carter joined ITV Studios in 2017, as Managing Director of MultiStory Media, he led on the rebrand of the company from Shiver, before becoming Chief Executive Officer of MultiStory Media and sister label Twofour. During his tenure, he has been responsible for a broad portfolio of successful shows.

At MultiStory Media these include award-winning Come Dine With Me; Pride of Britain; Kate Garraway's Life Stories; the recent moving documentary Brianna: A Mother's Story and the legendary 7 Up series as well as long-running current affairs series Peston and The Martin Lewis Money Show.

Whilst at Twofour, the company has transformed its portfolio securing returning commissions including: three series of the multi-award-winning travel series The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy, for Apple TV+; award-winning, genre defining I Kissed A Boy for BBC Three and Iplayer; the upcoming Destination X for the BBC and NBC and the return of Educating Yorkshire for Channel 4.

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