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Phil Mount, one of the UK's leading music TV producers, is being poached by Endemol UK's Initial to fill a new role created specifically to spearhead the company's music programming output.
Mount, who has been head of music at Blaze Television for the past six years, takes on the same job title at Initial, where his brief will be to oversee--as producer or executive producer--a raft of existing projects. In addition Mount will also be responsible for formulating and green-lighting new projects to build Initial's entertainment business.
The Emmy-Award-winning company is currently preparing the ambitious UK Music Hall Of Fame series for screening in the autumn on Channel Four and has been behind recent successes such as Fame Academy for BBCTV and John Lennon's Jukebox on ITV1. Mount takes up his new post in late August and will report directly to Initial chief executive Malcolm Gerrie.
At Blaze the award-winning producer presently oversees a range of high-profile music programmes including ITV1's flagship music show CD:UK--winner of the music series prize at this year's Music Week-organised CAD Awards--in addition to developing new ideas and attracting new business in the form of new music series, specials, documentaries and music DVDs.
Mount says his move is no reflection on Blaze. "[The company] has been good to me and produced good shows like CD:UK, but after sex year's at Blaze--a ...