A+E Networks Shake-Up: Amy Winter & Tanya Lopez Exit, Elaine Frontain Bryant To Oversee Lifetime
09.08.2023 - 23:41
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: A+E Networks is the latest entertainment company to undergo a shake-up.
Deadline understands that the company has made a small number of cuts to its programming team.
Amy Winter, EVP and Head of Programming at Lifetime, is leaving the company with Elaine Frontain Bryant, who is EVP and Head of Programming at A&E, now overseeing the Married At First Sight broadcaster.
Tanya Lopez, who is Executive Vice President of Scripted Content at Lifetime, is also leaving and will be transitioning into a production deal with A+E Networks, where she will continue to package and produce Lifetime Original Movies.
Elsewhere, we hear that John Verhoff, an exec producer at History, is also exiting.
Eli Lehrer is also adding music services to his job as EVP and Head of The History Channel Programming Genres and Music Services
Winter joined in 2020, from UpTV, where she was EVP and General Manager. In her three year tenure, she oversaw development and execution of programming including movies, scripted and unscripted for Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network.
Prior to UpTV, she was with Discovery between 2005 and 2013, as EVP and General Manager of TLC, where she greenlit series including Long Island Medium, Breaking Amish and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
Lopez has been with Lifetime in 2007 where she has been responsible for developing and overseeing all feature and original movies, limited series and movie acquisitions for the network. Lopez joined Lifetime from ICM, where she was a television packaging agent from 1987 to 2006. Prior to ICM, Lopez was Vice President of Drama Series at CBS after beginning her career at William Morris.
The move sees Frontain Bryant take on her duties as EVP & Head of Programming Genres for A&E,