Amazon’s UK Content Chief Dan Grabiner Exiting
08.09.2023 - 11:39
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon’s UK content arm, which is behind series such as Clarkson’s Farm and The Rig, is saying goodbye to its boss.
Dan Grabiner, who is Head of UK Originals, UK & Northern Europe, Amazon Studios – Prime Video UK, will leave the company in mid-October. Amazon confirmed his exit to Deadline today and staff were informed this morning.
Grabiner is set to launch his own production business, according to an internal note from Amazon Head of International Originals James Farrell seen by Deadline.
Tara Erer, who is currently Head of Local Original Movies for Amazon Studios, will step into Grabiner’s role. She has been with the Local Originals team for four years, leading a centralized global team on films such as Culpa Mia, Sayen and Argentina 1985.
Grabiner, who was previously Head of Unscripted for Amazon Studios UK, was promoted to Head of UK Originals, UK in June 2021. He had joined two years prior to build the unscripted slate.
It marks the latest change to Amazon’s UK television and film business after Georgia Brown, who was Head of Amazon Studios in Europe, stepped down in August 2022 and Martin Backlund left his post as Prime Video Head of Content for the UK and Nordics to become MD of the Nordic unit. Amazon’s UK team includes the likes of Cat Lynch, Fozia Khan, Jonathan Lewsley and Harjeet Chhokar.
In his most recent role, Grabiner was responsible for Prime Video’s original film and television teams in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Nordics and Eastern Europe.
Projects that he has worked on have included the All or Nothing sports franchise, which has covered football teams including Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, and scripted series including The Devil’s Hour, exec produced by Steven Moffat, The Rig,