Novel, the UK-based studio that has turn out to be Europe’s largest unbiased podcast producer on the again of a number of acclaimed, award-winning and globally chart-topping podcasts made for companions together with Wondery, iHeart, Spotify, Amazon, the BBC and extra, pronounces the hiring of Neil Krishnan as their new Head of TV and Movie. Krishnan joins from his function as Director of Inventive Acquisitions for Common Studio Group, one of many world’s main media and leisure corporations.
Krishnan brings a eager eye for distinctive tales and the artistic imaginative and prescient essential to shepherd the corporate’s slate of audio tasks into the Hollywood panorama. As Director of Inventive Acquisitions for Common Studio group, he was instrumental find and touchdown simple IP throughout NBCUniversal’s 4 tv studios and roughly 200 expertise offers, and was a key participant in closing a number of aggressive IP tasks throughout books, graphics novels, and podcasts.
Beforehand, Krishnan labored as a artistic govt at Erik Feig’s PICTURESTART, an unbiased multimedia studio that produces and funds tales rooted in self-discovery for all mediums. Current releases have embody Cooper Raiff’s Cha Cha Actual Clean for Apple TV+ and the upcoming adaptation of Luckiest Lady Alive for Netflix. Previous to his work at PICTURESTART, Krishnan started his profession in enterprise technique with stints at Bain & Firm, Microsoft, and Netflix earlier than making the leap to the artistic facet of Hollywood. A vocal advocate of these from marginalized backgrounds, Krishnan seeks to amplify and elevate underrepresented voices and views by way of his work.
With sturdy expertise in each artistic growth and manufacturing, and technique, his wealth of expertise is very suited to tackle the newly-created function of Head of TV and Movie at Novel. Krishnan says, “I used to be instantly blown away by Novel’s daring strategy to story, unbelievable entry to unique journalism, and unyielding ambition. I’m thrilled to make the most of each my artistic and enterprise backgrounds as I assist develop the already burgeoning Novel model throughout the podcast, movie and TV landscapes.”
Sean Glynn, CEO of Novel, says, “Novel is on a speedy growth journey. The exploitation of our IP past podcasting is a key a part of our future as we more and more look to self-fund, along with working with our companions. Neil goes to be integral to this and we couldn’t be happier.”
Matt O’Mara, Managing Director, says, “From the second we met Neil we have been stunned by each his pleasure about Novel and his unbelievable twin artistic/industrial outlook, which is uncommon. It’s implausible that Neil has joined the enterprise and can deliver with him his huge expertise and an enormous variety of business connections.”
Right now’s announcement is Novel’s newest in its collection of top-level podcast business expertise hires: since March, Novel has introduced the hires of Julie Shapiro as Government Inventive Director (previously of PRX and Radiotopia), Austin Mitchell as Inventive Director, Manufacturing (previously of New York Occasions’ The Every day), Mythili Rao as Managing Editor (previously of the Guardian’s Right now In Focus), and Indira Birnie as Head of Advertising and Communications (previously of Penguin Random Home).
Now with over 40 employees and a thriving partnership with United Expertise Company, Novel is primed to fulfill the calls for of its formidable repertoire of content material deliberate all through 2022 and past. The corporate is already exploring adaptation potentialities throughout its diversified slate, together with for its current releases The Superheroes Advanced, and Ship Us From Ervil, made in partnership with iHeart Media.
