{"id":109487,"date":"2025-09-02T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109487\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:10:07","slug":"bbc-hires-nick-lee-as-head-of-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109487\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Hires Nick Lee As Head Of Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc\" data-tag=\"bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> has hired Nick Lee as Head of Acquisitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe corporation has said Lee will lead the team responsible for acquiring TV series and feature films for publication on BBC iPlayer and the BBC\u2019s linear channels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLee will start in the role in November. Sue Deeks will remain in post until then. Deeks will transition into the new role of Head of Pre-Buy Acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLee joins the BBC Content division from BBC Studios, where he was Commercial Director of Scripted. He worked on titles like Tommy and Tuppence, Mint, 2026, and The Detection Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBefore that, he was at Channel 4 as Head of Acquisitions and International. He picked up titles like The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, Fargo, and The Great.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cNick is a highly experienced dealmaker with a keen eye for spotting compelling TV from around the world, and I\u2019m really excited that we\u2019ll be getting the benefit of his great energy and know-how in leading the Programme Acquisition team,\u201d Dan McGolpin, Director of iPlayer and Channels at the BBC, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLee added: \u201cThis feels like a vocational calling for me\u2026 To be acquiring for the BBC, shaping the market with this team, and working with the inimitable Sue Deeks is completely exhilarating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has hired Nick Lee as Head of Acquisitions.\u00a0 The corporation has said Lee will lead the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-109487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}