{"id":2392514,"date":"2026-04-28T07:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2392514"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:13:18","slug":"nippon-tv-hires-ex-itv-entertainment-exec-nick-ower-to-spearhead-development-in-la-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nippon-tv-hires-ex-itv-entertainment-exec-nick-ower-to-spearhead-development-in-la-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nippon TV hires ex-ITV Entertainment exec Nick Ower to spearhead development in LA | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_759692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 620px;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\" id=\"caption-attachment-759692\" class=\"wp-caption-text caption-new-style\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;padding:0;font-size:12px !important;line-height:20px !important; text-align:start;margin-bottom:0 !important;color:#666666;font-weight:900;\">Nick Ower (left) and Tom Miyauchi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Japanese media company Nippon TV is growing its Los Angeles presence with the appointment of Nick Ower, the former director of development at ITV Entertainment, as director of unscripted development and sales.<\/p>\n<p>Ower will be charged with growing the reach of Nippon TV\u2019s format catalogue, as well as finding US and international partners for original projects developed via subsidiary Gyokuro Studio.<\/p>\n<p>He will report to Tom Miyauchi, who relocated to California a year ago to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c21media.net\/news\/akiyama-miyauchi-appointed-heads-of-nippon-tvs-new-tokyo-and-la-based-ventures\/\">launch and head the LA outpost<\/a>, focused on driving sales of content and IP in the US and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>During his time at ITV Entertainment, Ower worked on adapting international formats for the US market and developing original content. During an eight-year stint at ITV Entertainment, he contributed to development on projects including Peacock\u2019s Love Island Games and Love Island: Beyond the Villa, as well as Prime Video\u2019s Twin Love and HBO Max\u2019s My Mom, Your Dad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNick will play a key role in strengthening our development pipeline and deepening our partnerships across the region, as we continue to broaden our presence in the global market,\u201d said Miyauchi.<\/p>\n<p>Ower added: \u201cBy combining Nippon TV\u2019s distinct creative spirit with a sharp focus on international scalability, I look forward to working with partners across the Americas to create high-impact content designed to resonate with audiences worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.c21media.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Ower (left) and Tom Miyauchi Japanese media company Nippon TV is growing its Los Angeles presence with the appointment of Nick Ower, the former director of development at ITV Entertainment, as director of unscripted development and sales. Ower will be charged with growing the reach of Nippon TV\u2019s format catalogue, as well as finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2392515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nippon-TV-hires-ex-ITV-Entertainment-exec-Nick-Ower-to-spearhead.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392516,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392514\/revisions\/2392516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}