TORONTO – Blue Ant Media has named Jago Lee as creative director for the company’s newly launched UK-based production studio Antenna Pictures.
Operating out of London, Antenna Pictures has begun developing a slate of distinctive, ambitious formats for broadcasters and streaming video services in the UK and US markets.
Lee (pictured) has 20 years of experience in developing, selling and producing non-scripted television worldwide. He is an award-winning executive producer and former head of documentaries for Tiger Aspect. In 2010, he founded Nerd TV which produces factual entertainment and factual formats for the UK and international markets and is now part of global super-indie Red Arrow.
Lee will join Blue Ant Media at MIPCOM 2016
“With Jago’s talent, knowledge and leadership in the factual space, we are ready to expand our production footprint to the UK under his creative direction,” said Blue Ant Media television & digital CEO Raja Khanna, in Thursday’s announcement. “Antenna Pictures will work closely alongside Blue Ant Media’s channels and producers in Canada and our international distribution division, Blue Ant International, to create world-class factual and factual entertainment content and formats.”
