Channing Dungey has only been at Netflix for a couple of years but she was instrumental in series such as Bridgerton, Emily in Paris and Inventing Anna as well as helping to bring over Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
Dungey, who now is Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. Television Group, likely will rejoin Netflix after the streamer struck a $83B deal to acquire the studio and streaming assets of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Her division is going to be one of the most closely watched once a deal closes, given that Netflix never has produced shows for rival streamers and broadcasters. It will now, according to Co-CEO Ted Sarandos.
Speaking at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, Sarandos paid tribute to Dungey and her team.
“The television studio … produces and licenses content to third parties. We were never in that business. We are now,” he said. “When you we get under the hood, that’s a really healthy business. It’s not as big as ours, and that’s why we haven’t really focused that much on doing it. The growth opportunity on our core business has been greater. But now in this transaction, we own that business, and Channing and that group do a phenomenal job, and we want them to continue to do that phenomenal job.”
Warner Bros. Television Group is behind series such as Apple’s Ted Lasso and Shrinking, NBC’s The Voice and Brilliant Minds, CBS’ Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, The CW’s All American, ABC’s Abbott Elementary and The Bachelor franchise and Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. In addition to shows on HBO and HBO Max, it also makes a lot of television for Netflix including Untamed, Running Point, The Sandman and Leanne.
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