Conway will bring her vast experience to the company’s growth in series production. She will work across all territories and Studiocanal’s growing network of production companies.
Studiocanal announced the appointment of Margaret Conway as Head of Physical Production for Studiocanal TV. Conway will be based in the UK, reporting to the recently announced M-K Kennedy, Executive Managing Director of TV Series.
Emmanuel Jacquelin, who oversees physical production for Studiocanal TV’s French series, will report to Conway effective July 1.
M-K Kennedy, Executive Managing Director of TV Series, noted that Margaret Conway’s appointment as Studiocanal TV’s Head of Physical Production marks the company’s evolution as a television studio.
“We want networks, platforms, and other partners to know that we are officially structuring our studio for growth and the long term. We are creating reliable structures starting with physical production,” the executive said.
M-K Kennedy noted that Conway is already a well-respected member of the Studiocanal TV family, given her time at Red. “Mags (Conway) is the right leader for this growing team. I’m excited to work more closely with her as we continue to grow Studiocanal TV’s burgeoning series business.”
Conway will bring her vast experience to the company’s growth in the series production arena. She will work across all territories and Studiocanal’s growing network of production companies.
Conway is Head of Production at Studiocanal’s production company Red, a leading producer of Britain’s most critically acclaimed and award-winning dramas. Before joining Red, the executive worked as a freelance producer on series such as Danny Brocklehurst’s Brassic, Daragh Carville’s The Bay, Mike Bullen’s Cold Feet, and Reggie Yates’ Make Me Famous.
Before that, Conway was a line producer for 13 years on shows such as Houdini and Doyle (ITV), Our Zoo (BBC), Fresh Meat (Channel 4), Raised By Wolves (Channel 4), Upstairs Downstairs (BBC), Lark Rise to Candleford and Dalziel and Pascoe.
Margaret Conway began her career as an in-house auditor at the BBC before entering the production world as a production accountant at Badger (BBC), going on to work for companies such as Big Talk Productions, Expectation Entertainment, Objective Productions, Tall Story Pictures, and Calamity Films, with whom she has established numerous creative talent relationships.
