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 Sport Exhibits, NBCUniversal Leisure and oversees collection resembling NBC staples resembling America’s Received Expertise and The Voice in addition to Peacock hits The Traitors and Love Island. NBCUniversal declined to remark.
Henson, a preferred determine within the unscripted neighborhood who joined NBCU in 2022, is departing as Donna Langley places her stamp on the TV aspect of the enterprise.
Tomorrow, Langley, who is Chairman, NBCUniversal Studios & Entertainment, is predicted 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 predicted 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 recreation present codecs throughout NBCU’s Leisure portfolio, together with NBC, Bravo, E!, Oxygen True Crime, Syfy, USA Community and Peacock.
Nonetheless, NBCU proprietor Comcast lately introduced that many of those networks – E!, Oxygen True Crime, Syfy and USA Community – will now sit under a new company, which has been known as SpinCo.
Henson’s massive win at NBC has been Deal or No Deal Island, a brand new spin on the traditional recreation present that just returned for a second season after robust scores for its first season. She additionally greenlit Destination X, a major new adventure format that is expected to launch later this year and will likely be the first of a number of interesting international co-productions and deals.
Earlier than NBCU, Henson labored at Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox. She was beforehand EVP, Head of Unscripted for TBS, TNT and truTV before she decided to leave following Warner Bros.’ merger with Discovery. There, she oversaw collection such because the reboot of Wipeout, The Go-Large Present and The Dice in addition to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Match of Homes, the Warner Bros-produced, Helen Mirren-fronted competitors collection that carried out properly for TBS and Cartoon Community.
Earlier than Turner, she was EVP, Various Leisure at Fox and earlier than that was EVP, Unscripted Tv at Electus and VP, Various Collection at ABC Leisure.
