Jay Hunt has been appointed chair of the British Movie Institute.

A vastly well-respected title in British TV, Hunt is presently the artistic director for Apple TV+ in Europe, and has been a governor of the British Movie Institute since 2020.

Previous to becoming a member of Apple, she was chief artistic officer at Channel 4 and, due to earlier positions on the BBC and Channel 5, is the one particular person to have run three terrestrial broadcasters within the U.Ok.

Hunt’s commissions comprise among the U.Ok.’s greatest and globally famend TV reveals during the last decade, together with Apple TV+ hits “Gradual Horses” and “Dangerous Sisters,” plus “Luther,” “Sherlock,” “Black Mirror,” “Derry Women,” “Disaster” and “Gogglebox.”

“The BFI performs such an important position in supporting nice British storytellers and I’m delighted I’ll be chairing the organisation at such an thrilling and difficult time,” Hunt mentioned in a press release. “I’m passionate concerning the high quality and vary of movie and TV we produce within the U.Ok. and stay up for championing it on the world stage.”

Hunt takes over as BFI Chair from Tim Richards, CEO of cinema chain Vue, following the tip of his three-year time period that started in February 2021.

“As a BFI Governor, Jay has been a passionate advocate for each the BFI and the UK movie sector,” added BFI chief government Ben Roberts. “Together with her unbelievable breadth of expertise in management throughout broadcasting and world streaming, she steps into this position with a really uncommon mixture of an innate understanding of the ability and potential of what public service organizations can ship in addition to being acutely business.”