Deadline: Fremantle Makes Mark Reynolds Its Permanent Global Docs Boss

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Fremantle has made Mark Reynolds its permanent Global Head of Documentaries.

Deadline revealed that the former BBC Studios Unscripted Portfolio Director was taking on the role on an interim basis when Mandy Chang stepped back to run Fremantle label Undeniable earlier this year.

Reynolds will now oversee the unit after several months spent “positioning strategy,” according to the Mrs. America and Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar super-indie. He previously had a long career at BBC Worldwide, delivering the commercial and content strategy for factual for global distribution. He was consulting before moving to Fremantle.

“Mark has been a key member of the Fremantle family since he joined earlier this year, and I am delighted he has taken this role,” said Andrea Scrosati, Fremantle’s Group COO and CEO Continental Europe. “With his extensive commercial expertise in the unscripted genre on a global scale, Mark will continue to spearhead our activity in the premium Documentary space.”

Fremantle owns more than 20 doc labels including Undeniable, Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story producer 72 Films and Wildstar Films.

Chang was Global Head of Docs for more than two years but stepped back to focus on Undeniable earlier this year. Undeniable is working on a doc based on Ruth Wilson’s one-woman play The Second Woman.