Chris Oliver-Taylor watched by Alan Finney at the 2012 Open Channel Generation Next Drama and Comedy Conference.
For the last week, the leadership of FremantleMedia Australia, aka FMA, has been a watch-this-space piece of speculation across the sector. The new CEO will be Chris Oliver-Taylor, the current Managing Director of Matchbox Pictures.
How that affects the industry is really unknown. Oliver-Taylor is the tall, gangly, nimble minded political tactician, publically active but always considered. He claims to know little about the internal workings of FME at the moment. He won’t know for a while because he goes on the quaintly titled gardening leave, in which he is contractually unable to work for either company until later in the year. What he does know is the sector and that he expects to do the job from Melbourne with a lot of flying.