42 has made a giant title rent. Former Netflix and Tiger Side Productions exec Ben Cavey is becoming a member of as Head of Comedy and Leisure.
Cavey can be primarily based within the UK- and U.S.-based agency’s LA workplace, rising its increasing group of managers and producers on the West Coast.
He’ll give attention to increasing 42’s push into comedy and leisure, producing initiatives and managing expertise in scripted and unscripted TV and movie. Cavey will even develop initiatives underneath 42’s three-way manufacturing enterprise with administration and manufacturing firm 3 Arts Leisure and Lionsgate Tv, which features a first-look take care of Lionsgate Tv for the U.S. market.
Final yr, we revealed Lionsgate had taken a stake in 42 in a deal, within the course of forming the three-way JV additionally together with Lionsgate subsidiary 3 Arts.
Cavey has simply completed govt producing a particular and season 4 of Jack Whitehall comedy Dangerous Training for the BBC. Between 2018 and 2022, he was Director of Authentic Comedy Programming at Netflix, the place he was answerable for comedy codecs and applications similar to Kevin Hart: Don’t F**Okay This Up, I Assume You Ought to Go away with Tim Robinson, Charlie Brooker’s Demise to 2020 and Murderville, and oversaw UK stand-up specials from Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Mo Gilligan and others.
Earlier than that, he spent 13 years at Peaky Blinders co-producer Tiger Side Productions, rising to Managing Director within the UK. His credit there included Decline and Fall, Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father for Netflix, Homicide in Successville and Man Like Mobeen.
Josh Varney, Accomplice at 42, mentioned: “Ben has impeccable style and nicely confirmed instincts as a storyteller and tastemaker. His huge expertise as a world class producer of comedy on either side of the Atlantic creates a singular providing for 42, and our shoppers, as we proceed to construct the main residence for storytellers globally. All of us really feel very lucky and enthused that he has chosen to affix us at this thrilling second in 42’s journey.”
Ben Cavey mentioned 42 was “a group of unimaginable producers and managers, and I’ve big admiration for the corporate’s tradition – modern, brave and, in fact, dedicated to high quality.”
“I sit up for serving to develop 42’s comedy and leisure providing, as we glance to draw the most effective expertise and produce the most effective content material in each scripted and non-scripted for tv and movie,” he added. “I additionally relish the chance to additional develop the corporate’s partnerships with Lionsgate Tv and three Arts Leisure, which I believe represents a extremely thrilling and distinctive alternative for everybody concerned.”
In LA, Cavey will work alongside managers together with former UTA agent Jev Valles, who we revealed final month had joined 42.
