Former BBC content chief adds Baby Reindeer’s Matt Jarvis to ranks of Sony company
Charlotte Moore has appointed Clerkenwell Films exec Matt Jarvis as her first hire as chief executive of The Crown indie Left Bank.
Javis will join the Sony Pictures Television-backed (SPT) company as executive producer and acting creative director, covering for incumbent Sian McWilliams while she is on maternity leave.
He will report directly to Moore as part of the senior leadership team, working with Left Bank’s creative execs to develop its slate and originate new programming for buyers.
Moore took up leadership of The Crown producer earlier this year after four years as the BBC’s chief content controller, having spent 19 years at the corporation in total. She serves as executive vice-president and creative director of international production at SPT.
She described Jarvis as “one of the most talented executives in the UK TV industry [with] a track record of extraordinary successes”.
She added: “We are thrilled to have him join the team and look forward to the creative ambition and leadership he will bring during this exciting period.”
At BBC Studios-owned Clerkenwell, Jarvis was a development executive, serving as exec producer on the Netflix global smash Baby Reindeer, which went on to be recognised at the Bafta, Golden Globes and Primetime Emmy Awards. He was also the development exec on all five series of the Bafta-winning show Misfits.
Jarvis highlighted Left Bank founder and executive chair Andy Harries’ “creative vision and business instinct”, describing the company as “one of the world’s leading producers of high-end television shows”.
He said: “The opportunity to work directly with Charlotte Moore, one of the media industry’s top high-level executives, to help shape the creative future of Left Bank was too great to turn down and I can’t wait to get started.
“I loved my time at Clerkenwell Films. I’ve been extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to work and learn from some of the most talented people in the industry.
“Whilst I’m extremely proud of the shows produced during my time there it is the friendships with colleagues that I’ll treasure the most.”
Left Bank’s current productions include Liverpool-set BBC1 gangster drama This City is Ours, the adaptation of the James Graham play about Gareth Southgate’s tenure as England men’s football team manager Dear England, also for the BBC, and Netflix’s detective breakout Dept. Q.
The indie is also working on a partly fictionalised account of the royal aide and dresser Jane Andrews, who was convicted of murder in 2001 for ITV, and the Outlander prequel series Outlander: Blood of My Blood.
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