Shaftesbury has hired producer Shauna Jamison as VP, production.

Based in Toronto, Jamison is responsible for managing the producers hired for Shaftesbury’s slate of shows as well as the company’s in-house producers. She will also manage, coach, and develop the Shaftesbury production team, a Shaftesbury spokesperson told Playback Daily.

She joins the company effective immediately and reports to president and chairman Christina Jennings.

Jamison has spent more than 20 years in the industry, spanning both Canadian and U.S. productions. She has worked as a production manager on projects such as The Marriage Fool, Eloise at the Plaza and The Comey Rule and a producer on Netflix’s In the Tall Grass (Copperheart Entertainment), Code 8: Part II (Collective Pictures, XYZ Films) and Shaftesbury’s 6 x 60-minute Crave series Underbelly, which went into production in October 2024.

“Shauna has been a key part of Shaftesbury’s production family for over 20 years from the very first Murdoch [Mysteries] movie to most recently on Underbelly for Crave,” said Jennings in a statement. “She is a smart executive who thinks outside of the box and embraces new production models.”

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