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Padma Lakshmi & Susan Rovner Cook Up Competition Series For CBS As Former NBCU Chief Dishes Up First Project Under New Production Banner
EXCLUSIVE: CBS may have found the cooking competition series that it's been looking for – from Padma Lakshmi and former NBCU content chief Susan Rovner.
The network has struck a development deal with the pair for a new food format that marks the first project to be baked up by Rovner's new production…
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By Peter White
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NBCU’s Susan Rovner Praises Colleagues As She Exits: “Content Across The Portfolio Is Having A True Moment Right Now”
EXCLUSIVE: Susan Rovner has praised her colleagues and acknowledged the tough decision to leave after NBCUniversal's latest restructure was unveiled Thursday.
Rovner, Chairman, Entertainment Content, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, sent a note to her team (read it in full…
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Comcast President Mike Cavanagh Makes His Mark As NBCUniversal Chief With Exec Reorg, Donna Langley’s Dual Film-TV Role
Anyone looking for a sign of Comcast president Mike Cavanagh’s strategy as the recently installed overseer of NBCUniversal got a bright one Thursday.
The seasoned finance exec unveiled a significant revamp of the company’s senior management ranks today. Donna Langley, Mark Lazarus and Cesar Conde…
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By Dade Hayes
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NBCUniversal Shake-Up: How Will Donna Langley Promotion & Susan Rovner Exit Impact Studio’s Television Business
David Zaslav should be sending a fruit basket right about now to Comcast boss Mike Cavanagh.
Hollywood's gaze has moved from Warner Bros Discovery to NBCUniversal, which has just undergone its latest restructure under the new Comcast president, a move that saw film chief Donna Langley expand her…
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By Peter White
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Donna Langley Promoted In NBCUniversal Restructure, Susan Rovner Exits
NBCUniversal is going through another restructure.
Donna Langley, who was Chairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, is being promoted to oversee all of the company's entertainment divisions including film and TV.
Susan Rovner, Chairman, Entertainment Content for NBCUniversal's Television…
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By Peter White
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Broadcast Networks 2022: The Year Everyone Started To Wave The White Flag
Old schoolers like the late Gil Schwartz of CBS used to hate it when the press would commandeer executive sessions at TCA in the aughts with questions about the death of broadcast TV. HBO had come to dominate the Emmys year after year and the perception was that programming on the Big Three just wasn’t…
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By Lynette Rice
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Susan Rovner: Peacock To Ramp Up Global Co-Productions, NBC Will Develop More Limited Series
Peacock is doubling down on true-crime content and global co-productions, while NBC will develop more limited series in the vein of Renée Zellweger's upcoming drama The Thing About Pam.
Those were some of the key scripted takeaways from Susan Rovner's session at the Edinburgh TV Festival, one of her first major public…
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By Peter White
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‘The Office’: “Whenever Greg Daniels Wants To Do A Reboot, We’re Standing By”, Says NBCU Content Chief Susan Rovner – Edinburgh
In a world of reboots, spin-offs and reimaginations, The Office remains one of the most vaunted.
The launch of NBCUniversal streamer Peacock and the company's $500M deal to get the rights back from Netflix to the Steve Carrell-fronted adaptation of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's comedy put the idea of a reboot…
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By Peter White
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NBCUniversal Upfronts Takeaways: Susan Rovner’s Debut, Will Smith Cameo, Late-Night Action Heroes, Renee Zellweger’s Pam & Olympic Sports Push
NBCUniversal brought out the stars to its Upfront on Monday to demonstate how the company's new content strategy might work in practice.
The company — which has decentralized its buying across linear broadcast, cable and streaming — relied on the likes of Will Smith, Kelly Clarkson, Kevin Hart and Renee Zellweger to…
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By Peter White
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NBCUniversal Upfront Doubles Down On Olympics Going Ahead Despite Pandemic & Political Worries About Tokyo & Beijing
UPDATED with Paralympic Games commentators info: A majority of Japanese citizens oppose the Olympics to go ahead in Tokyo due to the coronavirus pandemic, but NBC insists the Games will go on, at least for now.
"NBC will be bringing all of it to America," declared Mike Tirico today at the 2021 virtual NBCUniversal…
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Susan Rovner Completes NBCU Entertainment Content Restructure; 50 Staff Including Bruce Evans & Dan Shear To Exit In Layoffs
The reorganization of NBCUniversal's entertainment content team is complete with Susan Rovner setting the team and around 50 employees leaving as part of the changes.
Deadline understands that Bruce Evans, EVP, Current Programming and Dan Shear, EVP, Comedy Development at Peacock are two of the high-profile execs…
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By Peter White
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Susan Rovner Unveils Programming Leadership Team For NBCU TV & Streaming Division; Lisa Katz Becomes President, Scripted Content, Unscripted Team Split
Five weeks after joining NBCUniversal, Susan Rovner has put her stamp on the company's TV and streaming division by setting her programming leadership team.
The main takeaways from the reshuffle, which Rovner shared via an internal memo, are Lisa Katz becoming President of Scripted Content and Rovner splitting the…
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By Peter White
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