EXCLUSIVE: Change is coming at NBCUniversal.
As the corporate prepares for a broad restructure throughout its tv enterprise, Deadline understands that unscripted chief Corie Henson is leaving the corporate.
Henson has been EVP, Unscripted Content material, Competitors and Recreation Exhibits, NBCUniversal Leisure and oversees sequence akin to NBC staples akin to America’s Obtained Expertise and The Voice in addition to Peacock hits The Traitors and Love Island. NBCUniversal declined to remark.
Henson, a well-liked determine within the unscripted neighborhood who joined NBCU in 2022, is departing as Donna Langley places her stamp on the TV facet of the enterprise.
Tomorrow, Langley, who’s Chairman, NBCUniversal Studios & Leisure, is anticipated to disclose that Pearlena Igbokwe, who’s at present chairman of Common Studio Group, will take cost of NBC – one of many worst stored secrets and techniques within the TV enterprise over the past six months. Frances Berwick, who’s Chairman of NBCUniversal Leisure, is anticipated to segue into a brand new function that encompasses overseeing Bravo – the community the place she made her identify – and actuality programming.
During the last two and a half years, Henson has overseen actuality competitors, expertise competitors and sport present codecs throughout NBCU’s Leisure portfolio, together with NBC, Bravo, E!, Oxygen True Crime, Syfy, USA Community and Peacock.
Nevertheless, NBCU proprietor Comcast just lately introduced that many of those networks – E!, Oxygen True Crime, Syfy and USA Community – will now sit underneath a brand new firm, which has been often called SpinCo.
Henson’s huge win at NBC has been Deal or No Deal Island, a brand new spin on the basic sport present that simply returned for a second season after sturdy scores for its first season. She additionally greenlit Vacation spot X, a significant new journey format that’s anticipated to launch later this yr and will probably be the primary of a variety of fascinating worldwide co-productions and offers.
Earlier than NBCU, Henson labored at Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox. She was beforehand EVP, Head of Unscripted for TBS, TNT and truTV earlier than she determined to depart following Warner Bros.’ merger with Discovery. There, she oversaw sequence such because the reboot of Wipeout, The Go-Large Present and The Dice in addition to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Event of Homes, the Warner Bros-produced, Helen Mirren-fronted competitors sequence that carried out effectively for TBS and Cartoon Community.
Earlier than Turner, she was EVP, Different Leisure at Fox and earlier than that was EVP, Unscripted Tv at Electus and VP, Different Sequence at ABC Leisure.
