Three Identical Strangers exec joins Sky as docs commissioner

Sky has signed the exec behind Raw TV’s Three Identical Strangers and Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy to its factual commissioning team.

Tom Barry has been with All3Medial label Raw since 2015 and has been director of programmes, UK factual since 2018.

He joins Sky next month as commissioning editor of documentaries and factual commissioning and will be ordering factual series and single docs across three factual channels: Sky Documentaries, Crime and Nature.

Barry will report to director of documentaries and factual Poppy Dixon.

At Raw, Barry has exec-ed docs including BBC1’s Bafta-winning Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me and Paddy & Christine McGuinness: Our Family and Autism, as well as Sky’s upcoming women’s boxing doc Right to Fight.

He was previously an executive producer for Firecracker.