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Blast Films has tapped Mindhouse\u2019s head of popular factual Barnaby Coughlin to step into the newly created position of creative director, popular factual and formats.<\/p>\n
Coughlin\u2019s appointment is part of the Sky-backed indie\u2019s expansion into new genres, and he will lead its creative vision and oversee the development and execution of original content across the company\u2019s growing UK and international slates.<\/p>\n
He will work alongside Tanya Winston, creative director of factual, with both reporting into chief creative officer Danny Horan. He will also work closely with its development teams and production partners.<\/p>\n
Coughlin\u2019s addition comes after Broadcast revealed yesterday Blast was working on 10-part ob-doc series The Rooneys (w\/t) for Disney+ UK.<\/p>\n
Coughlin spent four years at Mindhouse, where he exec produced and developed projects such as Sex Actually with Alice Levine (Channel 4) and KSI: In Real Life (Amazon Prime Video), and BBC Sounds\/Radio 4 returning podcast How to Be with Rylan Clark.<\/p>\n
His arrival aims to help propel Blast into a \u201cdynamic era\u201d for factual storytelling, according to chief exec Claire Bosworth. The indie has several major commissions in the works, with its focus driven by creative risk-taking.<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to bring in a creative leader with the experience, ambition, and originality to help shape the next generation of programming at Blast.<\/p>\n
\u201cBarnaby\u2019s vision aligns perfectly with our values of authenticity, integrity, and boldness and I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going be a great asset to our team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coughlin added: \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to be joining Claire, Danny and all the inspiring people who make Blast the success it richly deserves. I am a big fan of their past series and can\u2019t wait to help build on their existing portfolio and get started in this new role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blast Films has tapped Mindhouse\u2019s head of popular factual Barnaby Coughlin to step into the newly created position…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-230088","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230088","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=230088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}