Late Night Lycett and The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan indie, Rumpus Media has appointed Adeel Amini to the newly created role of Head of Entertainment.
Rumpus has also hired Abby Kumar as Development Producer.
Amini will lead development and production of the entertainment slate. He will join Rumpus in August from Objective Media Group, where he produced ITV game show Lingo, its RuPaul-hosted US counterpart for CBS, and Saturday night BBC One show Alan Carr’s Picture Slam, which was recently commissioned for a second series. Across his role as Series Producer at OMG, Amini was also part of the development team for the latter two projects.
Rumpus Media is part of the STV Studios family of labels, and Amini previously produced STV Studios Entertainment’s Celebrity Catchphrase for ITV. He’s also worked across many other major formats, including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Family Fortunes.
Amini is also the founder and co-chair of pan-industry working group Coalition for Change, and in 2018, he formed what is now known as The TV Mindset, a mental health support group for over 20,000 freelancers working in TV and film.
Adeel Amini said: “I could not be more thrilled to join Rumpus as Head of Entertainment, which comes as the next exciting phase of my 16-year career in the genre. I’ve been an admirer of both the company and of [Acting Managing Director] Josephine Brassey ever since I had the pleasure of working with her many years ago, and I’m very much looking forward to everything we can achieve together at Rumpus.”
Abby Kumar joins from Studio Ramsay as Development Producer. She has worked across entertainment formats and scripted comedy, developing and producing shows such as Sky special A League of Their Own: The Lionesses, Channel 4 travelogue series Trip Hazard, and BBC short-form comedy series The Archiveologists.
Josephine Brassey, Acting Managing Director at Rumpus Media, said: “Rumpus has an ambitious strategy to create and deliver original, innovative, global formats and Adeel is one of few UK talents who can deliver to the scale of this ambition in both the UK and internationally.
“I’ve admired the work of both Adeel and Abby, and wanted to collaborate with each of them, for the best part of my career, so I’m delighted they’ve decided to join Rumpus as we move into our next chapter.”
Jon Creamer
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