Exclusive: RuPaul’s Drag Race producer World of Wonder has made a number of senior hires on the back of five Emmy wins and expansion into new mediums.
The independent production company has hired execs from Discovery, Own and Rolling Stone as it plots its next stage of growth.
Matt Vafiadis has joined as Svp of Development; he joins from Discovery, where he was VP, production, where he worked on Gold Rush. He reports to Chief Creative Officer Tom Campbell. Former Own executive Maitee Cueva has joined as Svp of Current Series and Programming; Ryan Slattery, who was formerly Svp of Production & Development at multi-platform network Collab has joined as Svp of Digital Content and Rolling Stone’s former head of digital sales Matt Habib has joined as Head of Brand Partnerships.
The hires, some of which have started over the past few months, come as the Million Dollar Listing...
The independent production company has hired execs from Discovery, Own and Rolling Stone as it plots its next stage of growth.
Matt Vafiadis has joined as Svp of Development; he joins from Discovery, where he was VP, production, where he worked on Gold Rush. He reports to Chief Creative Officer Tom Campbell. Former Own executive Maitee Cueva has joined as Svp of Current Series and Programming; Ryan Slattery, who was formerly Svp of Production & Development at multi-platform network Collab has joined as Svp of Digital Content and Rolling Stone’s former head of digital sales Matt Habib has joined as Head of Brand Partnerships.
The hires, some of which have started over the past few months, come as the Million Dollar Listing...
- 4/16/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox execs Terence Carter and Carolyn Cassidy, Bones Ep Jonathan Collier, The League’s Jeff Schaffer and Dan O’Keefe, and Fox Writers Studio co-head Nicky Weinstock are among the mentors of Harvardwood’s third annual “Most Staffable TV Writers” program this spring. The Harvard University-sanctioned nonprofit each year selects five writers based on original TV pilot submissions and sets up each winner with a one-on-one mentorship with a pair of TV pros. The 2013 honorees are Sam Chalsen, Forensic State (one-hour drama); Sue Chung, Shrouded (one-hour drama); Allison Kiessling, Elixir (one-hour drama); Matt Roller, Homeschooled (half-hour comedy); and Ryan Slattery, Market & Castro (half-hour comedy). In its previous two years, writers selected by the program went on to score agency representation at CAA, ICM, Circle of Confusion, Management 360 and Echo Lake. Members of the Harvardwood Writers Program have nabbed gigs on FX’s Justified, HBO’s The Newsroom, Fox’s Family Guy,...
- 3/2/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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