Updated: Day 2 of Disney’s second wave of layoffs has involved staff reduction in first-run syndication, unscripted/alternative as well as marketing and communications.
Disney TV Animation, responsible for 1,200 half-hours of animated content, including Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, is the latest division to be hit as it also merges the current and development teams. This has led to the departure of a number of executives including Khaki Jones, SVP Current, who has been with the company for nearly 13 years, as well as a number of director level roles.
Disney’s first-run syndication operation has been dissolved. Departing as part of that is Brent Jones, director and head of production finance & operations for first-run syndication.
Also leaving are VP Kim Harbin, a respected communications executive who has been at Disney for 25 years, as well as Tom Connor, VP Creative Marketing. Their functions will be absorbed by the marketing...
Disney TV Animation, responsible for 1,200 half-hours of animated content, including Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, is the latest division to be hit as it also merges the current and development teams. This has led to the departure of a number of executives including Khaki Jones, SVP Current, who has been with the company for nearly 13 years, as well as a number of director level roles.
Disney’s first-run syndication operation has been dissolved. Departing as part of that is Brent Jones, director and head of production finance & operations for first-run syndication.
Also leaving are VP Kim Harbin, a respected communications executive who has been at Disney for 25 years, as well as Tom Connor, VP Creative Marketing. Their functions will be absorbed by the marketing...
- 4/26/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva and Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Walt Disney Television Alternative, the Mouse House’s unscripted production unit led by Rob Mills, has staffed up.
The division, which was launched last year with a big promotion for ABC and Hulu unscripted chief Mills, has hired a trio of Vice Presidents: Jill Chapman, Alicia Martino and Mike Rosen.
Chapman, who was previously at Hulu, becomes VP, Alternative Series and Content Planning, Martino, who was recently co-exec producer of CBS’ Love Island, is VP, Alternative Series and Rosen, who recently worked at Amazon Studios, becomes VP, Production.
The trio report to Tiffany Faigus, SVP, Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, ABC Entertainment and Wdt Alternative.
The team has been tasked with identifying new ideas and concepts for series, collaborating with the creative community as well as new and existing talent, and supervising creative production on unscripted series and pilots.
The idea is for the unit to generate new projects for ABC,...
The division, which was launched last year with a big promotion for ABC and Hulu unscripted chief Mills, has hired a trio of Vice Presidents: Jill Chapman, Alicia Martino and Mike Rosen.
Chapman, who was previously at Hulu, becomes VP, Alternative Series and Content Planning, Martino, who was recently co-exec producer of CBS’ Love Island, is VP, Alternative Series and Rosen, who recently worked at Amazon Studios, becomes VP, Production.
The trio report to Tiffany Faigus, SVP, Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, ABC Entertainment and Wdt Alternative.
The team has been tasked with identifying new ideas and concepts for series, collaborating with the creative community as well as new and existing talent, and supervising creative production on unscripted series and pilots.
The idea is for the unit to generate new projects for ABC,...
- 6/29/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Walt Disney Television Alternative, the studio’s newly formed unscripted unit, has named Jill Chapman, Alicia Martino and Mike Rosen to executive positions. All three will report to Tiffany Faigus, senior vice president of unscripted and alternative entertainment for ABC Entertainment and Wdt Alternative, while Wdt Alternative is led by Rob Mills, executive vice president of unscripted and alternative entertainment for Walt Disney Television.
Chapman has been named vice president of alternative series and content planning, while Martino joins as vice president of alternative series and Rosen will serve as vice president of production. As a team, they will be responsible for building on the company’s existing unscripted brands by identifying new ideas and concepts for series, collaborating with creatives as well as new and existing talent, and supervising creative production on unscripted series and pilots. Wdt Alternative aims to generate new projects to live on the networks and platforms within the Disney ecosystem.
Chapman has been named vice president of alternative series and content planning, while Martino joins as vice president of alternative series and Rosen will serve as vice president of production. As a team, they will be responsible for building on the company’s existing unscripted brands by identifying new ideas and concepts for series, collaborating with creatives as well as new and existing talent, and supervising creative production on unscripted series and pilots. Wdt Alternative aims to generate new projects to live on the networks and platforms within the Disney ecosystem.
- 6/29/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
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