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As a component of WarnerMedia’s ongoing restructuring, the president of Warner Bros. Television Group, Peter Roth, is consolidating the studio’s scripted and und scripted television production operations. On the script side, Warner Bros Television and Warner Horizon Scripted TV’s cable/broadcast unit are merging into a new scripted department run by Warner Bros Television Presidents Susan Rovner and Brett Paul. The duo, which in the past released Warner Bros TV and Warner Horizon Scripted TV, will continue to oversee all scripted programming under Roth’s direction.
Consolidation returns Warner Bros. TV to its design before the cable and the unnamed rate won its own apartment with the release of Warner Horizon in 2006.
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Clancy Collins White rose to a newly created position and will now have daily oversight of the entire scripted program progression for the new Warner Bros. Records. Television, under Rovner’s leadership. Previously, she was executive vice president of dramatic development at Warner Bros. Television.
White’s good fortune will be Leigh London Redman, who has been hired to lead the progression of fiction, and will oversee the efforts of the new theatre team. Previously, he held the position of Scripted Programming EVP at Warner Horizon Television, a position that is being removed in consolidation.
Adrienne Turner will continue to lead the comedy and oversee the comedy team. She continues to be senior vice president and director of comedy development at Warner Bros. Television.
Odetta Watkins, EVP Current Programming, Premium Cable and On-Demand/Streaming Series, and Maddy Horne, EVP Current Programming, Network Series, will continue in their respective roles and continue to manage all facets of the existing scripted series produced through the studio. .
Adam Glick, Executive Vice President of Trade Affairs, continues in his existing positions at Warner Bros. Television and oversees newly merged teams; Sue Palladino, production EVP; and Jody Zucker, executive vice president of legal affairs.
Consolidation leads to layoffs, as layoffs, basically in backlot operations, such as business, legal affairs, production and finance, combine.
Overall, the existing series of layoffs is expected to have an effect on approximately 600 WarnerMedia employees, adding a significant portion at Warner Bros. Entertainment. High-level releases now come with Jeffrey R. Schlesinger, president of Warner Bros Worldwide Television Distribution; Ron Sanders, president, global distribution of theater and home entertainment and executive vice president of international business operations; Kim Williams, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Warner Bros. Entertainment; and Telepictures CEO Donna Redier Linsk.
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