BBC Studios Hires Bree Frank as Senior VP of Production
BBC Studios has appointed Bree Frank as its senior vice president of production. Deadline reported the appointment on 13 November 2026.
In the role, Frank will oversee production operations. That means the behind-the-scenes running of how shows get made, from crews and schedules to the budgets that pay for them. She will also work across BBC Studios' unscripted slate. Unscripted means programmes made without a written script, such as reality series, competitions and factual entertainment.
Frank is joining from Evolution Media, a company owned by Amazon MGM Studios. While there, she worked on three of the Real Housewives franchise's shows: The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Before Evolution Media, she was senior vice president of physical production, unscripted, at Hello Sunshine. Physical production covers the on-location side of making a show, including the crews, equipment and locations needed to film it. Deadline reported that at Hello Sunshine she built out the company's physical production services. Hello Sunshine was behind Apple's My Kind of Country.
Earlier in her career, Frank was executive in charge of production at Matador Content. That role means she was the senior person responsible for making a show happen on time and within budget. Her other credits include Wife Swap, Surf Girls and Meet Me in Paris.
BBC Studios' unscripted slate, as Deadline listed it, includes Fox's The 1% Club, Celebrity Weakest Link, Nation's Dumbest and Netflix's Outlast. The company also produces Dancing with the Stars for ABC.
For the people who make these shows, the production side is where long shoot days, travel and crew bookings are planned. A new head of production sets much of that work in motion, which is why the appointment matters to the teams beneath it, even when audiences never see the name on screen.
