2024 commissioner briefs
LANA GREENHALGH Head of Scripted Originals
Foxtel Group
Lana began working with Foxtel in 2015 after leaving a career in the talent management industry to pursue her passion for television drama. She began as Scripted Production Coordinator working across Foxtel’s scripted production and development slate including Wentworth, A Place To Call Home, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Australia Day, Secret City: Under the Eagle, Lambs of God, The End and Upright.
Lana was promoted to Head of Scripted Originals for the Foxtel Group in 2023 where she works on the procurement, development, and production of all Foxtel Group scripted commissions. She most recently oversaw production as Executive Producer on the first BINGE Original series, Love Me Season 1 and 2, and Season 2 of the critically acclaimed Foxtel Series Upright, as well as working across critically-acclaimed Foxtel Group Originals, Strife, The Twelve Season 1 and 2, Colin From Accounts Season 1 and 2, The Last Anniversary and Mix Tape.
SHELLEY QUINN & TINA McLAREN
Warner Bros. Discovery ANZ
SHELLEY QUINN
Commissioner
Shelley Quinn is a factual commissioner at Warner Bros Discovery ANZ, responsible for commissioning factual and entertainment content for ThreeNow and Three. Before joining the commissioning team at WBD, Shelley worked as a producer both in NZ and the UK, and has extensive experience in factual, entertainment and comedy production and development.
TINA McLAREN Senior Commissioner Scripted
Tina McLaren is a senior industry practitioner who has produced hundreds of hours of drama, documentary, and reality TV in the New Zealand Screen Production sector for more than 25 years.
As TVNZ’s Drama Commissioner from 2009 to 2017 Tina was responsible for the multi award winning Sunday Theatre Strand – Resolve, How To Murder Your Wife, Bombshell, Hillary, Jean to name a few. She was at the forefront of digital commissions for the Network, including the ground-breaking interactive online drama Reservoir Hill, which made history by earning New Zealand’s first International Digital Emmy Award.
Tina left TVNZ to take up the role of Head of Production at Screentime NZ in 2017, a post she held for 5 years. Tina is currently a Senior Commissioner for Warner Bros. Discovery ANZ, responsible for commissioning scripted content for THREE and THREENow.
OLIVER JONES & CAROLYN CARBONE
Apple TV+
OLIVER JONES Senior Commissioning Executive
Originally from the UK, Oliver is a Senior Commissioning Executive, currently based in LA, for Apple TV+. His focus is international scripted programming spanning original series development and production, co-production and acquisition. He sources, develops and produces shows from all international territories outside of the US.
Oliver played a key role in the acquisition and development of Tehran, which won Best Drama Series at the International Emmy's in 2021, as well as the acquisition of Red Skies from Yoav Gross productions, created by Ron Leshem, Amit Cohen, and Daniel Amsel, to be released on Apple TV+ soon. He's also responsible for Masters of The Air (EP'S: Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks, Dir: Cary Fukunaga), Disclaimer (SR & Director: Alfonso Cuaron), Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Godzilla/Kong returning series, Studios: Legendary/Toho), Sunny (Starring: Rashida Jones, Studio A24), The New Look (Chanel/Dior returning series, SR: Todd Kessler, Starring: Ben Mendelsohn & Juliette Binoche), Ferrari (SR: Steve Knight, Studio: Fremantle/The Apartment), Constellation (SR: Peter Harness, Studio: Turbine/Haut Et Court), and Losing Alice (SR: Sigal Avin, Studio: Dori Media).
Prior to joining Apple, Oliver was Vice President of scripted development at Fremantle. Highlights he worked on include American Gods (Neil Gaiman / Starz), Mosquito Coast (Neil Cross/Apple TV+) and Gormenghast (Neil Gaiman / Akiva Goldsman/ Showtime). Prior to this, he worked at The Weinstein Company, where he was responsible for Yellowstone (Paramount Network) and Imagine TV, with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, where he worked on Empire (FOX).
CAROLYN CARBONE International Creative Development
Originally from New York, Carolyn is currently residing in Los Angeles. She works in Development on the Apple TV+ International team. Prior to that, Carolyn was a Development Executive at Amazon Local Originals team and Sony’s International Networks Division.
With 10 years of experience, she’s developed television content in local and English language, and has produced outside the US and for a global audience.
Her passion for International content stems lies in the great opportunity for finding new models of storytelling, especially now, given the reach of streaming services. She considers herself a connector, specifically when it comes to diverse storytellers expanding their existing audiences to broader, global ones.