Plan B Entertainment Taps Nina Wolarsky As President Of Television
28.08.2023 - 19:01
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EXCLUSIVE: Veteran executive and producer Nina Wolarsky, who helped put Netflix on the original series map, has joined Plan B Entertainment as the company’s first ever President of Television.
The high profile hire signals a major television expansion following Mediawan’s acquisition of a majority stake in Brad Pitt’s Plan B last December.
Known for its formidable film portfolio, which includes three Best Picture nominees and one winner, 12 Years a Slave, Plan B had ventured into television with such projects as the Emmy-winning HBO movie The Normal Heart and the Emmy-nominated HBO movie Nightingale and Prime Video series The Underground Railroad.
The company telegraphed its growing ambitions in the TV space two years ago with the hire of Scott Free’s Carina Sposato and Netflix’s Ernest McNealey as Plan B’s first dedicated, senior-level TV executives. The duo will now be part of Wolarsky’s team.
Wolarsky was one of the first senior original programming executives hired by Netflix in 2012. During her eight-year tenure until her exit in late 2020, she was instrumental in building the streamer’s originals series team and slate. She oversaw such successful and brand-defining Netflix shows as Outstanding Drama Emmy winner The Crown, Orange Is the New Black, Ava Duvernay’s award winning limited series When They See Us, and the first season of Shondaland’s global phenom Bridgerton. In her role as VP, Wolarsky led a team responsible for a range of programming, including ongoing and limited series, and oversaw a number of Netflix’s overall deals, including those with Bridgerton‘s Shonda Rhimes, The Crown’s Peter Morgan, and OITNB‘s Jenji Kohan.
Prior to Netflix, Wolarsky was SVP of George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smoke