Paramount Global has chosen the nine writers who will participate in the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program for 2024-2025. Selected in the program’s 20th year are Jamil Akim O’Quinn, Wei Ling Chang, Adrian Colón Jr., Jai Franklin Sarki, Seth Harrington, Natalie Higdon, writing team Dijorn Moss & Trinea Moss and Nick Spates.
The Paramount Office of Global Inclusion helms the program. It is an eight-month-long program that provides mentorships, career development, support and personal access to executives and the decision-making processes for new writers in television. The program’s end goal is to prepare them for a television career.
For 16 weeks, participants will attend small workshop-style meetings with showrunners, executive producers, agents, managers and development and current executives to better understand how the writing and television business works. The writers are paired with an executive from the Paramount studio brands for regular meetings, fostering discussions about their work and receiving valuable...
The Paramount Office of Global Inclusion helms the program. It is an eight-month-long program that provides mentorships, career development, support and personal access to executives and the decision-making processes for new writers in television. The program’s end goal is to prepare them for a television career.
For 16 weeks, participants will attend small workshop-style meetings with showrunners, executive producers, agents, managers and development and current executives to better understand how the writing and television business works. The writers are paired with an executive from the Paramount studio brands for regular meetings, fostering discussions about their work and receiving valuable...
- 1/17/2024
- by Diego Ramos Bechara
- Variety Film + TV
CBS Studios has promoted three executives on its development team.
Whitney Berry is now the senior VP, cable, streaming & programming. She is responsible for the development and sale of all premium and streaming content across comedy and drama for the studio. During her tenure, she has developed such titles as Your Honor and The Man Who Fell To Earth for Showtime, as well as Swagger for Apple, Guilty Party and Why Women Kill for Paramount+ and Unbelievable and Dead to Me for for Netflix. She is currently overseeing King Shaka for Showtime and Glamorous for Netflix, both scheduled to drop in 2023. She joined CBS Studios in April 2018 as a VP.
Rob Luchow has been named senior VP, drama development. Throughout this time, Luchow has overseen development of CBS series So Help Me Todd, Fire Country, NCIS: Hawaii, Good Sam, Magnum Pi, The Code, FBI, Seal Team, among many others. Additionally,...
Whitney Berry is now the senior VP, cable, streaming & programming. She is responsible for the development and sale of all premium and streaming content across comedy and drama for the studio. During her tenure, she has developed such titles as Your Honor and The Man Who Fell To Earth for Showtime, as well as Swagger for Apple, Guilty Party and Why Women Kill for Paramount+ and Unbelievable and Dead to Me for for Netflix. She is currently overseeing King Shaka for Showtime and Glamorous for Netflix, both scheduled to drop in 2023. She joined CBS Studios in April 2018 as a VP.
Rob Luchow has been named senior VP, drama development. Throughout this time, Luchow has overseen development of CBS series So Help Me Todd, Fire Country, NCIS: Hawaii, Good Sam, Magnum Pi, The Code, FBI, Seal Team, among many others. Additionally,...
- 10/3/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
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