Blue Ant hires new international SVP

LONDON, U.K. — TV content creator and distributor Blue Ant International announced today it has hired Gerbrig Blanksma (pictured) as its new senior vice-president of international sales and partnerships. Blanksma joins Blue Ant from Discovery Inc., where she was director of international sales and licensing for the U.K. and EMEA regions. In her new role at Blue Ant, Blanksma will oversee global sales across the U.K. and Italy, as well as grow the division’s extensive library with additional third-party content across documentaries, factual entertainment, specialist factual, scripted, and kids and family genres, says the news release. Based in London, Blanksma...