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Experience:
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Octavia Spencer Launches Production Company, Signs Overall Deal With 20th Century Fox Television
Spencer partners with former WME agent Brian Clisham to form Orit Entertainment
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Travel Channel Promotes Matthew Butler to General Manager, Replacing Jane Latman
Latman was named president of HGTV last week
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Shannon Ryan Joins Disney as President of Marketing, ABC Entertainment and Disney TV Studios
Ryan previously served as chief marketing officer at Fox Television Group
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Paramount Television Promotes Ken Basin to Head of Business Affairs as David Goldman Exits
Liz Miller joins as senior vice president of production
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‘Station 19’ Showrunner Stacy McKee Exits ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Spinoff
ABC drama is currently in its second season
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‘Empire’ Stars Pen Letter Calling for Jussie Smollett’s Season 6 Return
Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard among names signed to message sent to Fox and the show’s producers
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‘The View’ Alum Jedediah Bila Joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ as Co-Host
Bila will debut Saturday, April 27
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Jussie Smollett’s Lawyers Accused of Defamation by Osundairo Brothers in Lawsuit
Abel and Ola Osundairo say Mark Geragos knowingly made false statements about their role in the reported attack
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HBO Orders ‘Showtime’ Pilot About ’80s LA Lakers From Adam McKay
Project is based on Jeff Pearlman’s book “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s”
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‘Love After Lockup’ Spinoff Ordered to Series at WE tv
“Love After Lockup: Life After Lockup” set to debut in June
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Dick Wolf Showrunner Shuffle: Warren Leight Returns to ‘SVU,’ Michael Chernuchin Moves to ‘FBI’
Leight previously served as showrunner on the “Law & Order” spinoff from 2011 to 2016
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‘Superstore’ Gets New Showrunners: Gabe Miller and Jonathan Green to Take Over for Creator Justin Spitzer
All three renew their overall deals with Universal Television
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Jimmy Kimmel to Re-Create ‘All in the Family,’ ‘The Jeffersons’ Episodes Live
Stars to include Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes
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Josh Friedman Steps Down as Co-Showrunner on Apple’s ‘Foundation’
Friedman was previously removed from TNT’s “Snowpiercer” series
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Lauren Corrao to Replace Karey Burke as Head of Programming at Freeform
Burke moved over to ABC last fall
