Fox Alternative Entertainment: new team for the unscripted series subsidiary

Producer John Hesling, former president of Maverick TV USA, who also worked for Shed Media (Warner Bros.) and the BBC, has joined Fox Alternative Entertainment (FAE), a subsidiary dedicated to Fox Entertainment's unscripted streams, to take over its management. announced the American group on Wednesday March 1. Based in Los Angeles, he will oversee the development and production of all of Fox Entertainment's "unscripted" series (The Mask Singer, Next Level Chef with Studio Ramsay Global subsidiary, Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer, etc.), as well as those produced by FAE " for third parties, in the United States and abroad", such as Love Trip: Paris for Freeform, the statement said.

John Hesling will be assisted by Spike Van Briesen, who leaves Fox Entertainment for FAE, who will take charge of the "current", Leela Pon for content and Staci Sarkin for production. The formation of this new team is part of Fox Entertainment's strategy to make FAE a "leading provider" of innovative formats "for FOX and for third-party platforms around the world".