It’s official. Channing Dungey has been named Chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group. Dungey succeeds Peter Roth, who revealed on Friday that he was leaving the studio after 22 years. The move c…
Dungey had stepped down as VP Original Content and head of drama at Netflix after 20 months at the streamer to pursue another opportunity.of WBTV President Susan Rovner, who was widely considered Roth’s heir apparent, to become Chairman, Entertainment Content for NBCUniversal’s TV & streaming unit.
She will oversee Warner Bros. Television Group, which is now part of WarnerMedia’s Studios and Networks Group, the division that also includes the WB Pictures Group, HBO and HBO Max, DC, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT, TruTV, Wizarding World and consumer products, experiences and gaming units. It is the latest move in a series of executive musical chairs over the last few months that included the departure of, whom Dungey previously reported to at the streamer, and the appointment of Bela Bajaria as Global Head of TV.
Prior to Netflix, Dungey was President of ABC Entertainment, becoming the first Black executive to run one of the Big Four networks’ entertainment divisions. There, she shepherded series including and was responsible for cancelling its top series, Previously, she ran ABC’s drama development, overseeing the development of such shows as Shondaland’sDungey joined the network’s drama development department in June 2009.
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