AMC’s Sarah Barnett Nurtures Cutting-Edge Series Ideas to Counter Streaming Giants

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“One of the vague advantages of going through life is you do start to realize what you are good at,” Barnett says. “I think that this intuitive synthesis, if you like, of brand, content and business is the puzzle that I am endlessly engaged in and absolutely fascinated by.”

“It was not an accident that Sarah’s management and supervision brought us ‘Rectify,’” says Sapan. “And it was not an accident that Sarah’s management and supervision brought us ‘In addition to being able to “read, tell and smell what’s good,” as Sapan puts it, Barnett is an enthusiastic fan of research. When she moved to BBC America, the channel had just launched its first hit, Canadian co-production “Orphan Black,” and was drawing viewers with U.S.

After Barnett assumed oversight of AMC in 2018, one of her first decisions was to simulcast Season 2 of “Killing Eve” on AMC and BBC America. The second season saw the show’s total audience grow 78% from the first, per Nielsen live-plus-seven data. While larger companies such as Disney, NBCUniversal and WarnerMedia have responded to the winnowing of cable by reorienting toward massive streaming plays, AMC Networks has charted a more selective digital course. During a quarterly earnings call in October, Sapan indicated that the company would lean more heavily into its collection of niche streamers — Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now and Urban Movie Channel — highlighting projected growth for the four services to a combined 3.

Among the shows that won’t be shopped to outside platforms will be “The Walking Dead: World Beyond,” the forthcoming second spinoff of the zombie-apocalypse drama that’s by far AMC’s greatest creative asset. “I think there are lots of stories to be told from this universe,” Barnett says of the franchise. “And I would say about that what I’d say about any of the development at AMC — which is that it has to be creatively exceptional.

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