Paramount Australia‘s Daniel Monaghan Jumps To Foxtel
Paramount Australia and New Zealand (ANZ)’s Daniel Monaghan is exiting for a senior role at DAZN’s pay-TV giant Foxtel. Currently Senior Vice-President, Content & Programming at Paramount, he is taking on a post as Executive Director – Entertainment Content, working across Foxtel and streamer Binge, per an internal note from Hilary Perchard, CEO of Foxtel, Binge and sports streamer Kayo. He has been at Paramount-owned Network 10 for two decades, spearheading work on shows such as The Masked Singer, Australian Survivor, Hunted, Have You Been Paying Attention?, The Cheap Seats, MasterChef, Taskmaster and I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and commissioning Fake, The Inspired Unemployed: Impractical Jokers and Last King of the Cross among others for Paramount+. At Foxtel, he will replace Wendy Moore, who announced back in June her exit to launch a new venture. The news comes soon after Netflix poached Stan content boss Amanda Duthie. Network 10 has been in the spotlight of late with the future of Paramount’s international assets under inspection following the merger with Skydance.
Joanne Whalley & Charlene Tilton Board ‘Write To Kill’ Series
EXCLUSIVE: Joanne Whalley and Charlene Tilton are the latest cast members in indie-financed TV pilot Write to Kill, per writer and producer David P. Perlmutter. Whalley, a BAFTA TV-nominated actress, is known for television roles in Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective and CBS miniseries Scarlett and Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and films such as The Man Who Knew Too Little and Willow, where she met former husband, the late Val Kilmer. More recently roles include a reprise of her role in Willow in the Disney+ spin-off series and a starring role in Eleanor Coppola’s Love is Love is Love. Tilton, known for playing Lucy Ewing in soap Dallas and guest-starred in the likes of The Love Boat, Murder She Wrote and Saturday Night Live. She also appeared in TNT’s Dallas revival in 2012 and had roles in ABC’s comedy The Middle and thriller Vengeance: A Love Story. She recently starred in Final Recovery, which also featured Write to Kill actors Kasper Cole and Michael Emery. Write to Kill, from author and producer Perlmutter, stars Charlotte Kirk as an aspiring author, cursed with writer’s block and ridden with debt, who is offered life-changing money to commit a heinous crime. The pilot is written by Perlmutter and Michael Gorman of Kat Harvey Films.
RTL Making Crime Thriller ‘Einsatz Seeler‘
RTL has rolled cameras on crime thriller movie Einsatz Seeler – Ein Lübeck-Krimi [working title, pictured above]. The thriller tells the story of Eric Seeler (Sebastian Ströbel), a former police officer turned street worker who lives with his street dog Gwena between the youth center, the shipyard, and reality. Hannah Vogt (Friederike Linke), on the other hand, is matter-of-fact, controlled and committed to the rules. When one of the young people from Seeler’s project is suspected of murder, worlds collide. The drama will launch on RTL next spring and is part of the German network’s Deadly Service Day. The script was written by Mike Bäuml (Polizeiruf 110) and Alexander Dierbach (Alarm für Cobra 11), who also directed it. Hans-Hinrich Koch is the producer, and Bernhard Henning is the producer for ndF Berlin.
NATPE Budapest Moves To April
Here’s another change to the TV conference calendar. NATPE Budapest will next year move from its traditional June date to April 27-29, 2026. It will remain at the InterContinental Hotel in the Hungarian capital, with sessions also held at the nearby Dorothea Hotel. NATPE owner Brunico Communications put the date change down to an “increasingly crowded June window.” Claire Macdonald, Executive Director of NATPE, said: “We listened and we’re acting. After an outstanding 2025 edition, it became clear that moving NATPE Budapest to April gives buyers and partners a valuable head start. Buyers are the heartbeat of any sales market, and NATPE Budapest is where real dealmaking happens – not just conversation.” Final details on studio screenings are still to be confirmed.
Fifth Season Builds Out International Sales Team With David Wilcox Hire
Fifth Season’s international TV distribution boss Jennifer Ebell is building out her team. Ebell has hired ITV Studios’ David Wilcox as SVP Sales EMEA while expanding the remits of regional leaders Alistair Jennings and Travis Webb. Taking on the role previously filled by Ebell, Wilcox will be responsible for driving EMEA sales across the Severance studio’s content slate, leading the regional sales team and identifying new commercial opportunities across linear, digital and co-productions. He was at ITV Studios for seven years, where he had a similar role in EMEA. Meanwhile, Jennings has become SVP, APAC Sales and Partnerships and Webb now oversees Fifth Season’s global home entertainment and digital strategy. Ebell took over as international TV distribution boss earlier this year after Prentiss Fraser exited to Fox. Ebell recently told us she is prepping a five-year strategy plan and wants to build on the foundations left by Fraser.
