EXCLUSIVE: Caroline Hollick has left The North Road Company.
Hollick, a former Channel 4 drama chief, joined a year ago as Senior VP International Production and Development based out of the UK. We understand she left Peter Chernin’s business a few weeks back, and her LinkedIn has been updated to freelance exec.
North Road declined comment on Hollick’s departure and it is unclear whether she will be replaced. At the time of her appointment, North Road said Hollick would work closely with President of Television Amy Israel and her LA-based team to identify “fresh voices and top creative talent for North Road to collaborate with in the UK and other European markets.”
Hollick has since worked across North Road international co-pros such as Brazilian medical thriller Suture and Israel’s Heart of a Killer starring Niv Sultan. She previously ran drama for Channel 4, where she oversaw Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin, Jack Thorne’s Help, The Gathering and the I Am… franchise. Hollick is a highly-respected international drama executive who grabbed headlines earlier this year at Series Mania when she chided Gwyneth Paltrow for the actor’s “irresponsible” remarks about intimacy co-ordinators.
Since launch in 2022, at which point it bought Red Arrow Studios’ U.S. assets for $200M, North Road has made international ambitions clear. Ex-Westbrook President Jan Frouman has been President of International since the start and the company is involved with a number of international co-pros and has dipped into the M&A market via the purchase of Turkey’s Karga Seven and Mexico’s Perro Azul, while Love is Blind producer Kinetic Content recently opened in the UK.
North Road, which recently struck a first-look with Apple TV+ for its Chernin Entertainment studio, runs the likes of North Road Television, Kinetic Content and Words + Pictures.