{"id":410026,"date":"2025-09-09T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410026\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:00:12","slug":"paramount-uk-boss-sarah-rose-exiting-to-william-kates-royal-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410026\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount UK Boss Sarah Rose Exiting To William & Kate’s Royal Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tParamount<\/a> UK chief Sarah Rose<\/a> is leaving at the end of this year to join The Royal Foundation run by Prince William and Kate Middleton.<\/p>\n

\n\tRose has sent a note to staff in the past few minutes. She has been President of Channel 5<\/a> (now 5) and Regional Lead, UK for Paramount since February 2024. She is a highly-rated UK TV exec who was widely tipped as a frontrunner to replace Alex Mahon as CEO of Channel 4. Instead, she will be CEO of the charitable organization overseen by the future King and his wife, a job she described in her internal staff memo as a \u201ccareer-defining, unique role which I simply could not turn down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA process has commenced to appoint a successor to Rose, which will be overseen by Kevin MacLellan, President International and Global Content Distribution, who will be in the UK next week. The highly-rated Ben Frow will continue to lead 5 creatively, as Chief Content Officer. He has been tipped as a potential future programs chief of Channel 4. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe news comes following the completion of the Paramount-Skydance<\/a> merger. Paramount will now be looking for a new UK chief in this new era. Rumors had swirled around the future of 5 and Paramount\u2019s other linear international assets like Australia\u2019s Network 10, but Frow recently told the Edinburgh TV Festival that 5 will not be sold and new boss David Ellison is \u201cvery keen on \u201d the network.<\/p>\n

\n\tRose said the \u201cdecision to leave now has been all the more difficult because I am both impressed and excited by the vision and strategy Skydance<\/a> has articulated since acquiring Paramount.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe International Division is in very safe hands with Kevin MacLellan, who understands our business intimately and has an impressive track record of his own,\u201d she added. \u201cHot on the heels of 5\u2019s Channel of the Year accolade, the business is well-equipped to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRose said she will work with Frow and the wider team \u201cto leave it in the best possible shape for 2026 and beyond\u201d throughout the rest of this year. \u201cSo this is not a goodbye note yet. No tributes or thank yous,\u201d she added. \u201cThere is plenty of work to be done before any of that. But I did want to ensure that you heard the news from me directly and I will just allow one small personal observation to sneak through: I have worked in public service broadcasting for thirty years and have never felt as at home or as passionate about a place as much as I have about this business I\u2019ve had the privilege of running.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRose first joined Paramount UK<\/a> in 2020 and has overseen a strong period for 5 in lockstep with Frow, during which time it has improved linear at a time of rivals\u2019 declines and made splashy drama bets like the All Creatures Great and Small reboot. More recently, it has struck an NFL deal and just tied with Piers Morgan on a highlights show for his Uncensored YouTube show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount UK chief Sarah Rose is leaving at the end of this year to join The Royal Foundation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,1458,533,86502,112666,2590,2832,532,2831,7710,519,141079,112667,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-410026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-channel-5","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-paramount-uk","14":"tag-paramount-skydance","15":"tag-paramount","16":"tag-prince-of-wales","17":"tag-prince-william","18":"tag-princess-of-wales","19":"tag-royal-families","20":"tag-royal-family","21":"tag-sarah-rose","22":"tag-skydance","23":"tag-uk-royal-family","24":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115173525080666354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410026","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=410026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}