EXCLUSIVE: 32 Flavors, the manufacturing firm behind collection together with Vanderpump Guidelines, has a brand new President.
The corporate, which was based by Alex Baskin final 12 months, has employed former Netflix actuality exec Jenn Levy, one of many group chargeable for smash hit courting present Love Is Blind.
Levy, who left Netflix earlier this 12 months, will report back to Baskin. The pair beforehand labored collectively at Bravo, the place they developed the idea for Vanderpump Guidelines.
She was most lately VP, Unscripted at Netflix, the place she was additionally chargeable for exhibits reminiscent of Queer Eye, Nailed It!, and The Ultimatum. She was with Netflix since 2017, having joined as Director of Unscripted Originals from NBCUniversal’s Bravo, the place she had spent 9 years. She was the corporate’s unscripted chief Brandon Riegg’s first rent after he joined the corporate on the finish of 2016.
At Bravo, she was SVP, Present Manufacturing, the place she labored on collection reminiscent of Shahs of Sundown, Flipping Out, Million Greenback Itemizing, Beneath Deck, High Chef and Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D Checklist. Earlier than becoming a member of Bravo, Levy was Director of Growth and Manufacturing at Viacom.
Her rent is the newest transfer by 32 Flavors; Baskin beforehand employed Joe Kingsley, EVP, Manufacturing & Operations and Jeff Festa, SVP, Growth & Programming.
Along with co-producing Vanderpump Guidelines with Evolution Media, the corporate is behind collection reminiscent of Denise Richards & the Wild Issues, which simply acquired picked up at E!. Baskin can be an government producer of the forthcoming characteristic movies Riff Raff, that includes Ed Harris, Jennifer Coolidge, Pete Davidson, Dustin Hoffman and Gabrielle Union, and Ability Home with 50 Cent and Bryce Corridor.
“Jenn is among the most revered, completed and formidable inventive forces throughout the whole business,” mentioned Baskin. “She is one in all one, and the chance to group up together with her is one thing Joe, Jeff and I wholeheartedly embrace. We’re thrilled with the success we’ve had out of the gate, and with Jenn on board, we’re simply getting began.”
“I’m thrilled to start out this new chapter with Alex who is among the most dynamic and prolific producers of the present unscripted period,” mentioned Levy. “His expertise for growing and delivering buzzy and beloved exhibits on the highest-level 12 months after 12 months has the eye of each government on the town, me included. I jumped on the alternative to work with him and the unimaginable group at 32 Flavors as they develop and diversify their enterprise.”
