EXCLUSIVE: Ben Kelly is exiting his Director of Unscripted function at Netflix UK & Eire after six years on the streamer.
Kelly has been one in every of Netflix UK’s key commissioning leaders, constructing out its unscripted slate alongside Daisy Lilley with reveals similar to Too Scorching to Deal with and Love is Blind.
There’s no phrase on the following transfer for the popular exec, who’s credited internally for constructing Netflix’s unscripted staff and constructing its actuality TV slate within the UK, working underneath Anne Mensah, VP of Content material.
He initially joined as Supervisor of Nonfiction Sequence, as Deadline revealed in 2019, and was made chargeable for ordering international codecs out of the UK. The TalkbackThames-produced relationship present Too Scorching to Deal with was a serious success, operating to a number of seasons and main remakes in 5 international locations up to now, and, extra not too long ago, CPL Productions’ Love is Blind: UK, was recommissioned for a second season.
Nevertheless, not every thing he touched at Netflix was successful, with Deadline revealing in 2023 that one other relationship collection, Snowflake Mountain, had been cancelled after a single run.
He had joined from UK community ITV, the place he was a commissioner who dealt with reveals similar to Who Desires To Be A Millionaire?, The X Issue and comedy clip format Zone of Champions. Previous to that he was a producer and showrunner on reveals together with I’m A Movie star Get Me Out of Right here, Massive Brother and Million Pound Menu.
