Women give shape to global TV | Television tonight

The Hollywood reporter has published a list of the Women Reshaping Global Television.

There are different names that are important for the Australian industry: Kylie Watson-Wheeler from Disney (photo), Minyoung Kim van Netflix, the Australia born Cathy Payne and Jay Hunt, Plus Helen Gregory of See-Saw films located in Great Britain.

Helen Gregory
Joint director, see-SAW Films (VK)
Gregory has continued to use the British talent with the Emmy-winning spy thriller Slow Horses and the cheerful coming-of-age series Heartstopper from Netflix. She gets more support among critics and fans with the Ella Purnell-with in the lead role in Sweetpea (renewed for season two) and the Aussie Limited Series Apple Cider Vinegar with Kaitlyn Dever. The business world does not show any signs of delay.

Jay Hunt
Creative Director of Worldwide Video, Europe, Apple (VK)
British TV connoisseur Hunt, born in Australia, knows how to balance a huge series of Apple TV+hits (Slow Horses, Bad Sisters, Prehistoric Planet) with the chairmanship of the British Film Institute, a role that she has held since February 2024. The former director of BBC and Channel 4 stands behind some of the most popular programs that have come from Great Britain for the past twenty years, including Sherlock, Luther, Derry Girls and Black Mirror, but has set itself up in the good at Apple and soon earned her bread as one of the smartest commissioners of the streamer.

Minyoung Kim
VP content for Asia-Pacific (former India), Netflix (South Korea / Japan / Taiwan / Southeast Asia / Australia / New Zealand)
Kim has become the most influential creative voice of Netflix in the Asia-Pacific region. The director who has given the green light for Squid Game – still one of the most viewed titles of the streamer – now leads teams in eight offices and manages local hits such as Alice in Borderland, Boy Swallows Universe and Hunger. Her range of duties extend from Korea to Australia, from Japan to Southeast Asia, making it responsible for a large part of the global non-English list of Netflix. Kim says that her greatest fear is “not to see the true core of a problem – to be derived by missing the positive sides and the hidden possibilities.” Nevertheless, she emphasizes that daring bets are needed to help the sector move forward. For young women who enter this field, she recommends: “Determine your own principles and philosophy – not only how you do your work, but also what kind of person you want to be. And make sure you are yourself under all circumstances.”

Cathy Payne
CEO of Banijay Rights (VK)
Payne supervises all distribution activities for the nearly 190,000 -hour catalog of Banijay Entertainment, and the evidence is in the pudding: among the brands that acquire global popularity on her watch, his survivor, big brother, master chef, Peaky Blinders and Black Mirror. Before that she spent ten years at Endemol and later at Endemol Shine, where she was the leader of a team of six territories. One branch trend that Payne would like to say goodbye to? “Social media, overcurrent content that is intended to reach an immediate response through connection.”

Kylie Watson-Wheeler
Senior VP and Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand; Head of ESPN, Asia-Pacific, The Walt Disney Co. (Australia/New Zealand/Asia-Pacific)
In the past year, Watson-Wheeler led ESPN’s integration into Disney+ for Anz subscribers-the first markets outside of North America who did this-and delivered more than 10,000 hours to sports content. “It is our biggest game-changer so far,” she says, noting that sport-crazy Australia now has access to both Disney’s entertainment crown jewels and live ESPN reporting on one platform. Watson-Wheeler, who started with marketing and consumer products, says she hopes to defend a broader vision of telling Australian stories, in which she rejects ‘stereotypical creative frames’ as dramas in the outback in favor of global attractive stories.