HBO Veteran Chris Spadaccini Exiting As WarnerMedia Chief Marketing Officer

Dade Hayes Finance EditorJean-Paul “JP” Colaco, the industry veteran who has worked at Apple and at Hulu, has been hired by WarnerMedia as Head of Advertising Sales.

WarnerMedia has named Jean-Paul “JP” Colaco as its new head of advertising sales. One of his first assignments: launching HBO Max's ad-supported offering in 2021.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJean-Paul Colaco, an experienced hand in the emerging practice of gaining ad support for streaming-video content, will serve as the new head of advertising sales at WarnerMedia, filling a role that has been left open for more than a year.Colaco, known to many as “JP,” has a history with WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterDalila Wilson-Scott has been promoted to executive vice president and chief diversity officer at Comcast, where she will oversee all diversity, equity and inclusion activities for the telecom and entertainment giant.“Dalila is a fantastic leader and passionate advocate and supporter of our corporate social responsibility efforts, which have been at the heart of our company for decades,” said Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.

Ana de Armas is ready for audiences to see “No Time To Die”.

Andreas Wiseman, Jake Kanter The London Film Festival’s Screen Talks and events program will include speakers Riz Ahmed, Letitia Wright, Michel Franco, Miranda July, Tsai Ming-liang, Christian Petzold, David Byrne and artist Es Devlin, who will each talk about their most recent work.

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first reported the news.“One of the first shows Chris and I worked on together was ‘Flight of the Conchords.’ That was 15 years ago and I have been in awe of his endless creativity ever since. ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Veep,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ as well as this year’s big Emmy winner ‘Watchmen’ is just a short list of his and his team’s iconic campaigns,” said Casey Bloys, head of programming for HBO.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterChris Spadaccini, chief marketing officer of WarnerMedia Entertainment, is exiting his role at the company, Variety has confirmed.Spadaccini is an HBO veteran, having been with the company for 21 years upon the time of his departure. He was named CMO of WarnerMedia Entertainment in 2019.“My 21 years at HBO have been nothing short of an extraordinary experience,” Spadaccini said in a statement.

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WarnerMedia is putting its entire production business under review, following the multitude of toxic workplace reports at “The Ellen Degeneres Show” and TMZ.“We have engaged a third party to do an objective, proactive review across our production business (internal teams in addition to partner productions),” CEO Jason Kilar wrote in a memo.

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar and Warner Bros. CEO and chairperson Ann Sarnoff are addressing reports of poor workplace cultures at The Ellen DeGeneres Show, TMZ on TV and other shows produced by its subdivision Telepictures in two new memos.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVBack in July, WarnerMedia launched an investigation into the workplace environment of The Ellen DeGeneres Show following a BuzzFeed report alleging bullying and intimidation at the syndicated talk show, produced by Warner Bros.’ Telepictures division.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: German major Leonine has scored a coup with the hire of long-time Bavaria Fiction exec Oliver Vogel as MD of Dark producer W&B Television.The Das Boot exec will remain at Bavaria until the end of January, 2021, joining Leonine-owned W&B from 1 February, 2020, with a focus on development, acquisition and production of TV projects for the German and international markets.

coronavirus cases, according to a former director at the World Health OrganisationEx-WHO expert Anthony Costello tweeted: "I'm hearing from a well-connected person that government now thinks, in absence of testing, there are 38,000 infections per day."Chris Whitty is advising PM for a two week national lockdown."However, health minister Edward Argar has denied the claims."It is not something I have seen within the department," he told Sky News."The Prime Minister has been very clear on this.

Element Pictures, the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning production banner behind Normal People, The Favourite, Lobster and Room, has bolstered its creative team with the hire of two executive producers working primarily in TV. Lucas Ochoa joins from Pulse Films, where he was the chief creative officer of the scripted division.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVVeteran cable executive Chris McCumber is leaving NBCUniversal.The exec, who announced his departure in a memo to staff in Wednesday, played a key role in USA Network’s success during the aughts “blue sky” era and later developed and launched that channel’s most prestigious hit, “Mr.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVChris McCumber, President, Entertainment Networks—USA Network & Syfy, is leaving NBCUniversal after 19 years at the company’s flagship entertainment cable networks. He just notified his team in an internal memo.

From left- Yanelkys Moreno Agramonte and her partner, Dayana Rodríguez González. (Photo courtesy of Dayana Rodríguez González)

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster BBC’s new chief content officer Charlotte Moore will be stepping away from commissioning and her role as controller of flagship channel BBC One “in order to focus on the strategy and shape of the new BBC Content division,” the BBC has confirmed to Variety.Beginning Sept.