{"id":697844,"date":"2026-01-15T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697844\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:44:11","slug":"bbc-studios-janet-brown-to-exit-content-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697844\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Studios&#8217; Janet Brown To Exit Content Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc-studios\" data-tag=\"bbc-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Studios<\/a> sales boss <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/janet-brown\/\" id=\"auto-tag_janet-brown\" data-tag=\"janet-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janet Brown<\/a> is exiting and the role is relocating to the UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrown is the second senior BBC Studios boss based in the States to leave over the past few months following Rebecca Glashow, CEO of BBC Global Media &amp; Streaming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBBC Studios wants to relocate Brown\u2019s role to London HQ to work more closely with productions chief <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/zai-bennett\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zai-bennett\" data-tag=\"zai-bennett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zai Bennett<\/a> and his team. Brown declined to relocate and will \u201cpursue new opportunities,\u201d BBC Studios said. The new UK-based role will oversee all global content sales including the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis strategic change looks to the future and will support us building a truly unified content studio that combines world-class production with global sales excellence,\u201d said Bennett. \u201cJanet has made an indelible contribution to our\u00a0business,\u00a0we are deeply grateful for her leadership and commitment \u2013 and wish her every success in her next chapter.\u201d \u202f<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing Glashow\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/rebecca-glashow-tribeca-enterprises-new-ceo-jane-rosenthal-co-chair-1236595484\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exit to Tribeca Enterprises<\/a>, distribution and content sales moved to fall under Bennett, with UKTV CEO Marcus Arthur taking on global channels. Bennett has made a wealth of changes since coming in to run productions including hiring Jamie Hall as scripted MD and revamping its unscripted offering with Karl Warner and Suzy Lamb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrown joined BBC Studios in 2022 from Gunpowder and Sky as President of Content Distribution for North America and Latin America. In October 2024, she stepped into the global role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Studios sales boss Janet Brown is exiting and the role is relocating to the UK. Brown is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3937],"tags":[85774,77,210253,382,16,15,210184],"class_list":["post-697844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc-studios","tag-entertainment","tag-janet-brown","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zai-bennett"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115899653403792002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697844","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=697844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}