BBC Director of Drama Lindsay Salt has appointed Callum Akass as Head of Development. He joins from House Productions (part of BBC Studios), where he is an executive producer.

Akass was script executive on Peter Straughan’s Conclave, which won the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay. His other credits at House Productions include Disney+/Hulu’s series The Good Mothers, and films The Iron Claw, The Wonder and Starve Acre. He also worked on forthcoming films Sweetsick, written and directed by Alice Birch, and Bijan Sheibani’s The Arrival.

Prior to his time at House Productions, Akass worked at Urban Myth Films where he script edited the first season of Joe Barton’s The Lazarus Project for Sky. He began his career at Leopard Pictures, working as script editor on Mackenzie Crook’s Worzel Gummidge for the BBC.

Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, commented: “Callum has worked with some of the UK’s very best writers across an enviable breadth of drama and film. We feel very lucky for such a smart and insightful talent to be joining our team where he will play a crucial part in spotting, championing and supporting the next raft of original dramas for BBC”.

Akass added: “After five incredible years at House Productions, I couldn’t be more excited to be joining Lindsay and the drama team. So many of my favourite shows past and present have come from the BBC and I’ve always been inspired by the creative risk-taking and ambition that fuels their output. They already have an exceptional slate and I can’t wait to play a part in building on it.”

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