Indie producer Cream Productions has hired veteran Los Angeles TV development exec Amy Manchester Borg to drum up business stateside and new factual series for the Canadian market.

Borg, a former director of development at Pilgrim Films & Television (American Chopper) and Asylum Entertainment (American Gangster), becomes co-director of development, alongside Jenn Kuzmyk Ruch.

Borg is also filling a post left empty by Yasmine Abbasakoor during her maternity leave.

Cream Productions is best known for its I Could Do That!, How Machines Work and Breakout factual series.