Amanda Laing will oversee content across all of Foxtel's brands, while Brian Walsh will spearhead a new Originals division as part of a reorganisation of the Foxtel executive team.
Since launching in May, Foxtel's streaming service Binge has signed up more than 217,000 subscribers, targeting the younger generation who never subscribed to Foxtel.
Foxtel's low-cost entertainment streaming service Binge offers 10,000 hours of content, rising to 20,000 hours by the end of the year - but no exclusives and relatively few Australian shows.
SoHo’s programming, including Australian dramas Wentworth and A Place to Call Home and international series Outlander, The Americans, Nashville, Shameless and Bates Motel, will be seen on Showcase from October 1.