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Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios and AGC Unwritten, its unscripted, non-fiction subsidiary led by president Joel Zimmer, have promoted Emily Knight to senior VP with oversight of all development for AGC Unwritten.
Launched in 2022, Unwritten is currently in production on an as yet unannounced project for Netflix and has landed a dozen development projects with the likes of Amazon, Netflix, History, A&E, TLC and Food Network. AGC Unwritten has partnered their formats internationally with Banijay, Leonine and Mentorn and will be rolling out a fresh set of formats at RealScreen and NATPE.
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Knight joined AGC Unwritten as VP two years ago with a formats development mandate.
Previously based in the U.K., Knight created, developed and sold large scale original formats across multiple genres, including the global hit dating format “Ex on the Beach” for MTV, the survival engineering format “Escape” for Channel 4, the reboots of global formats “How to Look Good Naked” and “10 Years Younger” and horror game show “Don’t Scream” for BBC Three.
Knight was head of development at Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks’ company Expectation, after two years running development for the U.K. arm of All3Media’s Maverick TV. Before focusing on development, Knight worked in production on such hit titles as “The Voice” and “The Apprentice,” as well as a diverse slate of films and documentary series.
Zimmer said, “Emily’s been an invaluable partner for the past two years and I’m thrilled to continue to work with her. She’s a creative force with great relationships here and abroad and I have no doubt she’ll continue to propel Unwritten’s success.”
Knight added, “I’m excited to build on the format foundations we’ve made here at AGC Unwritten in the past two years. It’s been so great to have had such creative freedom from Stuart, Joel, and Lourdes to pitch in so many different spaces at the speed we have, and I can’t wait to see where we take this next.”
Unwritten is in post-production on director Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary feature “Nobu,” and partnered with Matt Heineman’s Our Time Productions on the 2024 feature documentary “Transition” (Gravitas).
Previous unscripted projects from the AGC hub include AGC Television’s documentary “The Tinder Swindler” (Netflix’s most watched documentary ever), and three acclaimed documentaries with CNN Films, including “Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story” (CNN Films); “John Lewis: Good Trouble” (Magnolia Pictures/Participant); and “Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer” (Magnolia Pictures). The studio was also the international distribution partner on “Ask Dr. Ruth” (Magnolia Pictures) and “Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9” (Briarcliff Entertainment).
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