Veteran producer Dylan Massin (The West Wing) has been named EVP of Production for Sony Pictures Television Studios. Massin, who reports to Spts President Katherine Pope, assumes the Head of Production role from Ed Lammi, who retired in December after a 36-year career at the studio. Massin will oversee all physical production for the U.S. scripted studio, including pre-production/budgeting, production, and post-production teams.
Additionally, Spts’ SVP of Production Adam Moos has been promoted to SVP of Production and Head of Production Operations, reporting to Massin. Both Massin and Moos begin their new roles today.
“Dylan is one of the most respected producers in the business, and I know he will bring his deep experience, his drive for perfection, and his leadership to our shows, our teams, our showrunners and our partners,” Pope said.
Massin, whose 30 years of producing experience ranges from production assistant to executive producer, has worked...
Additionally, Spts’ SVP of Production Adam Moos has been promoted to SVP of Production and Head of Production Operations, reporting to Massin. Both Massin and Moos begin their new roles today.
“Dylan is one of the most respected producers in the business, and I know he will bring his deep experience, his drive for perfection, and his leadership to our shows, our teams, our showrunners and our partners,” Pope said.
Massin, whose 30 years of producing experience ranges from production assistant to executive producer, has worked...
- 1/3/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Television Studios has named Dylan Massin as executive vice president of production, while senior vice president of production Adam Moos has been promoted to add head of production operations to his title. Both began their new roles on Wednesday.
Massin enters the role following the December retirement of Ed Lammi, who worked at the studio for 36 years. Massin will oversee all physical production for the U.S. scripted studio, including pre-production, budgeting, production and post-production teams for development and active production slates, leading more than 30 staffers. He reports to studio president Katherine Pope.
He joins Sony Pictures Television after more than 30 years as a producer, with credits including “The West Wing,” “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” “Pushing Daisies,” “Parenthood,” “Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life,” “Get Shorty,” “Good Girls,” “Your Honor” and “Star Trek: Picard.” In addition to producing, Massin has also directed episodes of both comedy and drama series.
Massin enters the role following the December retirement of Ed Lammi, who worked at the studio for 36 years. Massin will oversee all physical production for the U.S. scripted studio, including pre-production, budgeting, production and post-production teams for development and active production slates, leading more than 30 staffers. He reports to studio president Katherine Pope.
He joins Sony Pictures Television after more than 30 years as a producer, with credits including “The West Wing,” “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” “Pushing Daisies,” “Parenthood,” “Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life,” “Get Shorty,” “Good Girls,” “Your Honor” and “Star Trek: Picard.” In addition to producing, Massin has also directed episodes of both comedy and drama series.
- 1/3/2024
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Ed Lammi, Sony Pictures TV’s head of production, is set to retire after 28 years in his position, TheWrap has learned.
After joining the studio in 1987 as vice president in charge of production of multi-camera videotaped series, Lammi will end his 36-year run at Sony Pictures TV as he departs the company at the end of the year.
“Ed will be departing at the end of December, marking a momentous occasion for all of us who have had the privilege of working with him and the opportunity to benefit from his wealth of knowledge and his passion for television production,” Sony Pictures TV president Katherine Pope told staffers in a Monday memo obtained by TheWrap. “From multi-camera comedies to ground-breaking drama series, and now hit shows for nearly every major streaming platform, Ed has led the production of hundreds of shows, overcoming many challenges as our industry has evolved.”
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After joining the studio in 1987 as vice president in charge of production of multi-camera videotaped series, Lammi will end his 36-year run at Sony Pictures TV as he departs the company at the end of the year.
“Ed will be departing at the end of December, marking a momentous occasion for all of us who have had the privilege of working with him and the opportunity to benefit from his wealth of knowledge and his passion for television production,” Sony Pictures TV president Katherine Pope told staffers in a Monday memo obtained by TheWrap. “From multi-camera comedies to ground-breaking drama series, and now hit shows for nearly every major streaming platform, Ed has led the production of hundreds of shows, overcoming many challenges as our industry has evolved.”
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- 10/30/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
Ed Lammi, Sony Pictures Television’s EVP Production, will be departing at the end of December after a 36-year career at the studio. Spt President Katherine Pope announced Lammi’s retirement in an internal memo. There is no word yet on his replacement.
“Throughout Ed’s journey, which began at Spt in 1987 when he joined as vice president in charge of production of multi-camera videotaped series, his many contributions have been felt across the business,” Pope said in the email, which you can read in full below. “From multi-camera comedies to ground-breaking drama series, and now hit shows for nearly every major streaming platform, Ed has led the production of hundreds of shows, overcoming many challenges as our industry has evolved.”
Lammi has served as EVP of Production at Spt since 1995, overseeing production for the studio’s slate of scripted comedies and dramas, animated, reality and non-scripted programming, made-for-tv movies,...
“Throughout Ed’s journey, which began at Spt in 1987 when he joined as vice president in charge of production of multi-camera videotaped series, his many contributions have been felt across the business,” Pope said in the email, which you can read in full below. “From multi-camera comedies to ground-breaking drama series, and now hit shows for nearly every major streaming platform, Ed has led the production of hundreds of shows, overcoming many challenges as our industry has evolved.”
Lammi has served as EVP of Production at Spt since 1995, overseeing production for the studio’s slate of scripted comedies and dramas, animated, reality and non-scripted programming, made-for-tv movies,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Television’s longtime head of production Ed Lammi is retiring at the end of this year, following a 36-year run at the studio and 28 years in his current position.
No details were immediately available regarding who will replace Lammi as executive vice president of production, a role he has held since 1995. A source tells Variety plans have not yet been set for that transition, as Lammi will remain at his post through December.
Lammi joined Sony Pictures TV in 1987 as vice president in charge of production of multi-camera videotaped series. Eight years later, he was promoted to head of all production at Sony’s TV studio and has since overseen scripted comedies and dramas, reality and non-scripted programming, made-for-tv movies, game shows, talk shows as well as animated programming. Among the many hit series made under Lammi are “Breaking Bad,” “The Boys,” “Cobra Kai” and “Outlander.”
“Ed’s...
No details were immediately available regarding who will replace Lammi as executive vice president of production, a role he has held since 1995. A source tells Variety plans have not yet been set for that transition, as Lammi will remain at his post through December.
Lammi joined Sony Pictures TV in 1987 as vice president in charge of production of multi-camera videotaped series. Eight years later, he was promoted to head of all production at Sony’s TV studio and has since overseen scripted comedies and dramas, reality and non-scripted programming, made-for-tv movies, game shows, talk shows as well as animated programming. Among the many hit series made under Lammi are “Breaking Bad,” “The Boys,” “Cobra Kai” and “Outlander.”
“Ed’s...
- 10/30/2023
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
It was a little stressful and down to the wire as all of Sony Pictures TV’s new series pickups and some of its renewals did not close until the weekend before the upfronts, but the indie studio ultimately saw four of its six pilots picked up, drama For Life and comedy United We Fall at ABC and drama Lincoln and comedy Indebted at NBC. Excluding straight-to-series orders, that is the studio’s strongest conversion ratio in almost a decade.
Additionally, Sony TV saw all of its broadcast scripted series get renewed; its broadcast tally, including scripted and unscripted series, is 11 series on ABC, NBC and CBS.
That is with the studio, which last year did not get a new broadcast series but landed a series order for its NBC pilot La’s Finest at Spectrum, scaling back on broadcast development, developing about 50% fewer scripts with a targeted approach.
Sony Pictures...
Additionally, Sony TV saw all of its broadcast scripted series get renewed; its broadcast tally, including scripted and unscripted series, is 11 series on ABC, NBC and CBS.
That is with the studio, which last year did not get a new broadcast series but landed a series order for its NBC pilot La’s Finest at Spectrum, scaling back on broadcast development, developing about 50% fewer scripts with a targeted approach.
Sony Pictures...
- 5/13/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
A resurrected Timeless and Season 2 of This Is Us were among the big winners today among TV projects receiving lucrative tax credits from California’s incentive program. Although not all allocated, this latest round saw $51 million available for recurring series and $25 million for relocating series, with the upcoming S.W.A.T. revival and Season 7 of HBO’s Veep also getting some of that taxpayer dough.
Having seen FX’s Legion and Fox’s Lucifer move from Vancouver and Showtime’s The Affair jump from New York in the previous round of TV tax incentive awards in March, the California Film Commission continued its emphasis on snagging relocating series with Thursday’s announcement.
Timeless, canceled for a brief spell in May before being brought back to life three days later by NBC, will shift from Vancouver to California for its upcoming second season. To that end, the time-travel series starring Abigail Spencer,...
Having seen FX’s Legion and Fox’s Lucifer move from Vancouver and Showtime’s The Affair jump from New York in the previous round of TV tax incentive awards in March, the California Film Commission continued its emphasis on snagging relocating series with Thursday’s announcement.
Timeless, canceled for a brief spell in May before being brought back to life three days later by NBC, will shift from Vancouver to California for its upcoming second season. To that end, the time-travel series starring Abigail Spencer,...
- 6/29/2017
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The recession has taken a toll on nearly every trade, and New York's film and TV industry hasn't been spared any fiscal grief. But the Empire State's actors have reason to breathe easier this month. On Aug. 3, the state Legislature passed a measure extending New York's film and TV tax-credit program, allotting $2.1 billion in incentives over a five-year period ($420 million per year) to projects that complete a percentage of their shooting and postproduction work inside state lines. The tax credit comes, at long last, as part of the newly passed state budget, due by April 1 but delayed this year for four interminable months.The tax incentive, which offers a 30 percent rebate on below-the-line expenditures for qualified projects, as well as a 10 percent rebate on postproduction work completed in New York, is nothing new: Funding for the program has been renewed yearly since 2004. But the five-year extension, which guarantees the credits...
- 8/18/2010
- backstage.com
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was taking credit Monday for keeping the production of at least three dozen movies and TV shows in California, which passed a controversial series of tax incentives for the industry in February as the state fended off bankruptcy.Schwarzenegger said 50 projects have been approved for tax credits under the Film and Television Incentive, passed along with a host of other economic measures, and 36 have begun production. Movies in the latter group include Screen Gems' "Burlesque," starring Kristen Bell and Cher, which could receive up to $7 million in tax credits.The 50 projects together are eligible for as much as $97 million in tax credits that can be used beginning in 2011, said Amy Lemisch, executive director of the California Film Commission.In July, the governor announced that 25 productions had qualified, including Columbia's "The Social Network," starring Justin Timberlake, and "Dinner for Schmucks" from DreamWorks and Paramount, starring Paul Rudd and Steve Carell.
- 10/27/2009
- backstage.com
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was taking credit Monday for keeping the production of at least three dozen movies and TV shows in California, which passed a controversial series of tax incentives for the industry in February as the state fended off bankruptcy.
Schwarzenegger said 50 projects have been approved for tax credits under the Film and Television Incentive, passed along with a host of other economic measures, and 36 have begun production. Movies in the latter group include Screen Gems' "Burlesque," starring Kristen Bell and Cher, which could receive up to $7 million in tax credits.
The 50 projects together are eligible for as much as $97 million in tax credits that can be used beginning in 2011, said Amy Lemisch, executive director of the California Film Commission.
In July, the governor announced that 25 productions had qualified, including Columbia's "The Social Network," starring Justin Timberlake, and "Dinner for Schmucks" from DreamWorks and Paramount, starring Paul Rudd and Steve Carell.
Schwarzenegger said 50 projects have been approved for tax credits under the Film and Television Incentive, passed along with a host of other economic measures, and 36 have begun production. Movies in the latter group include Screen Gems' "Burlesque," starring Kristen Bell and Cher, which could receive up to $7 million in tax credits.
The 50 projects together are eligible for as much as $97 million in tax credits that can be used beginning in 2011, said Amy Lemisch, executive director of the California Film Commission.
In July, the governor announced that 25 productions had qualified, including Columbia's "The Social Network," starring Justin Timberlake, and "Dinner for Schmucks" from DreamWorks and Paramount, starring Paul Rudd and Steve Carell.
- 10/26/2009
- by By Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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