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Previously, she spent four years at Paramount heading up the international TV studio, where she oversaw expansion of the UK and European scripted originals pipeline for Paramount+ working on shows such as The Gold, A Gentleman in Moscow and The Flatshare.<\/p>\n
Her other previous roles include vice-president of acquisitions across scripted and non-scripted at Cineflix Rights, and senior scripted acquisitions executive at ITV Studios.<\/p>\n
Ebell <\/strong>said: \u201cKate brings a formidable blend of commercial insight and creative instinct, with a track record for identifying the kind of global, talent-driven stories that define our slate. She\u2019s trusted by producers, respected across the industry, and we\u2019re thrilled to have her join the acquisitions team.\u201d<\/p>\nLaffey added: \u201cFifth Season has built a world-class reputation for bold, distinctive storytelling, and I look forward to working with the team to help expand its global reach and to continue delivering compelling, high-quality programming to our partners around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fifth Season, previously Endeavor Content, has over 60 executives based across New York, LA, Hong Kong, Stockholm and Toronto and its distribution operation is headquartered in London.<\/p>\n
Its distribution slate includes comedy American Classic from its own studio for MGM+, Stan Original series He Had It Coming and Made Up Stories\u2019 The Good Daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifth Season has appointed Paramount UK\u2019s former scripted originals co-chief Kate Laffey to head up acquisitions. As senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-207958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114733339406933261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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