Amazon Studios Restructures MGM TV Scripted Operations: Leadership Roles For Lindsay Sloane & Rola Bauer, Bradley Gardner Exits As Orion TV Folds
30.11.2022 - 01:47
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: After recently restructuring Amazon Studios’ original content operations, Head of Television Vernon Sanders is now setting up the MGM scripted TV leadership with new roles for Lindsay Sloane, Sr. EVP of MGM Scripted TV, and Rola Bauer, President of International TV for MGM. He laid out the reorganization in an internal memo, a copy of which was obtained by Deadline. (you can read it in full below.)
Sloane will become Head Of MGM US Scripted TV, while Bauer will expand her responsibilities as Head of Pan-English Scripted SVOD TV, Development & Series. Sloane and Bauer will report to Sanders alongside his direct reports on the Amazon Studios side, Lauren Anderson, Laura Lancaster, and Nick Pepper.
As part of the restructuring, MGM US Scripted TV will absorb Orion Television, the label, which was revived two years ago. Orion TV SVP Bradley Gardner, who led the label’s programming team, is stepping down and is in discussions for a producing deal at MGM TV.
Sanders’ memo does not mention Michael Wright, who most recently served as President of MGM Scripted Television and President of MGM+ (fka Epix). As Deadline reported earlier this month, the expectation is that Wright, who had run Epix before expanding his role in 2021 to oversee MGM’ scripted studio following Steve Stark’s exit, would once again focus on MGM+, which is taking on a new role as part of the larger Amazon TV portfolio.
As the new Head of MGM US Scripted TV, Sloane and her team will develop projects for Amazon Studios and will continue to take projects to outside buyers.
In Bauer’s new role, she will oversee the development and production of English-language originals for Prime Video outside of the U.S. This is a separate division from Amazon