EXCLUSIVE: Blue Ant Studios acquisitions boss Lilla Hurst will exit the Canadian business after three years, we can reveal.

Hurst is set to exit her role as Blue Ant’s Global Head Acquisitions & Content Strategy in December and is planning to take a career sabbatical in 2026 before re-entering the international TV space.

The London-based exec has been with Blue Ant since the company acquired her distribution biz, Drive Media Rights, in 2022. Her co-founder at Drive, Ben Barrett, remains as Blue Ant’s Global Head of Content Financing and Partnerships.

Hurst’s exit is understood to be entirely amicable and as such she is helping with the process of finding her replacement, we hear. A global search firm has already been engaged, and Hurst told key suppliers in a note that the “hope is t

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