Two examples today--first, NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy was quickly fired after it was discovered that he had made many racial and gender slurs in front of other network employees, including the accusations brought by Gabrielle Union about how things are run at "America's Got Talent." NBCU will continue the investigation, meanwhile, programming and production for all of NBCU's entertainment networks (including the big OTA one) has been centralized under Frances Berwick, who came to NBC when they bought Bravo in 2002 (she had been at that channel in their last years of their "Film & Arts Network" identity when owned by Cablevision, having come from UK Channel 4) and in recent years had been in charge of NBCU's "lifestyle networks" (besides Bravo, E!, Oxygen and Universal Kids):
https://deadline.com/2020/08/nbc-entertainment-broader-culture-assessment-the-investigation-paul-telegdy-misconduct-mark-lazarus-1203007424/ At the network, Telegdy's successes were mostly in reality franchises like "The Voice" and "AGT," which became the monster summer hit it is now under his watch (and supposedly the most valuable television franchise of them all, even if most of the money goes to Simon Cowell and producers Fremantle). But he got moved out of late-night, having successfully cleaned things up after the Leno/Conan contremps and moving Fallon into the pole position of "The Tonight Show," and it was and is believed that Lorne Michaels hated his guts. It is also believed that Dick Wolf hates him, as well, and he and Michaels are not men you want to have as enemies at NBCU. And of course, the Ellen affair isn't helping anything (thanks to the combined forces of NBC, Tegna and Hearst-Argyle, Ellen is mostly on NBC affils headed up by those owned by those companies in the biggest markets and "Game of Games" is on NBC prime time). Meanwhile, a surprise over at WarnerMedia where former NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt and well-traveled programmer Kevin Reilly are out--Warner Bros. CEO Ann Sarnoff is now in Greenblatt's position, while HBO programming chief Casey Bloys is now also in charge of the streamer HBO Max and the former Turner channels TBS, TNT and TruTV: https://collider.com/warnermedia-hbo-max-exec-firings-kevin-reilly-bob-greenblatt-explained/ It could probably be said that the slow start of HBO Max (which includes not being available on Amazon or Roku for the cord-cutters) was the major factor behind the firings. It could also be said that the robbing of programming from the other Warner channels to throw on HBO Max hasn't helped things any (not to mention the dithering over where to put "Snowpiercer" and the moving of TBS' scripted shows to Max). And if the Tenderloins ever decide to go to another company, TruTV will be screwed (just look at how many times a day they air "Impractical Jokers"). But they made the firings while Oliver's on vacation, so they don't have to worry about him taking another shot at them and AT&T on Sunday night. ("HBO Max--it's not HBO, it's just TV.") -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/c6168688-143d-4bf1-9b58-4627e6dbb3c2n%40googlegroups.com.
