As BBC Studios gears up for its annual showcase, where it introduces its upcoming hot projects to international buyers, U.K.-based Jonathan Blyth, BBC Studios’ director of comedy, and Kelly M…
, where it introduces its upcoming hot projects to international buyers, U.K.-based Jonathan Blyth, BBC Studios’ director of comedy, and Kelly Miller, BBC Studios’ Los Angeles-based senior VP of scripted strategy, sat down withto discuss what’s on their comedy slate, working with streamers and the biggest challenges they’re currently facing.Kelly Miller : It’s all about authentic storytelling, that lived-in experience, a talent who has something to say.
JB: Not necessarily. [My team] manage all of our key production partners and work incredibly closely with a lot of brilliant talent, honing and really working those development projects, and helping to get them off the ground in the U.K. [But Kelly and I] speak every day so we couldn’t be more joined up. The U.S. is so important to our comedy business.
KM: I think the streamers have presented a really incredible opportunity to be unique. Broad is something that we’re incredibly good at on one side but on the other hand, having those unique storytellers that we’ve been talking about, especially in the comedy space, only helps us in the marketplace, because that is what the streamers want.
JB: I don’t think so. I think those American players, they do want those authentic voices, British voices, they don’t want an American version. […] With “The Outlaws,” with Stephen Merchant, Amazon have been a terrific, creative partner and have very much let Stephen run that without pushing. During last year’s Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival, British comedian London Hughes spoke about how, which she felt was down to U.K. commissioners not giving her the same opportunities as her male, white counterparts. How do you find new talent, particularly diverse talent?
KM: From the U.S. perspective and as we think about the marketplace here, those ambitions are very well matched in terms of what the marketplace wants, and diverse storytelling, which is the right way to move. And in terms of the talent that we’re backing, supporting, spending time finding. I think it’s an incredibly exciting time for all of us to be celebrating these voices from all these different lived-in backgrounds.
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