Exclusive: Fremantle unscripted exec Jean Shi is exiting the America’s Got Talent producer after six years.
Shi joined the U.S. team as VP Alternative Programming & Development in 2018 and was most recently SVP Unscripted Development. She was signed up alongside SVP Alternative Programming & Development Colin Nash.
Shi’s role involved developing and selling original unscripted series, with a focus on global formats for cable and attracting talent. Prior to Fremantle, she was SVP Development at Invent Media and before that spent three years in the NBCUniversal group at Oxygen Media, where she shepherded such series as Pretty.Strong., Douglas Family Gold, Strut and Battle of the Ex-Besties.
Deadline understands Shi’s contract was running down and she is the only Fremantle U.S. exec to depart at this time. Fremantle has confirmed her departure.
Run by North America-based CEO Jennifer Mullin, Fremantle makes entertainment shows such as NBC’s America’s Got Talent,...
Shi joined the U.S. team as VP Alternative Programming & Development in 2018 and was most recently SVP Unscripted Development. She was signed up alongside SVP Alternative Programming & Development Colin Nash.
Shi’s role involved developing and selling original unscripted series, with a focus on global formats for cable and attracting talent. Prior to Fremantle, she was SVP Development at Invent Media and before that spent three years in the NBCUniversal group at Oxygen Media, where she shepherded such series as Pretty.Strong., Douglas Family Gold, Strut and Battle of the Ex-Besties.
Deadline understands Shi’s contract was running down and she is the only Fremantle U.S. exec to depart at this time. Fremantle has confirmed her departure.
Run by North America-based CEO Jennifer Mullin, Fremantle makes entertainment shows such as NBC’s America’s Got Talent,...
- 12/15/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
FremantleMedia North America is bolstering its unscripted team with one exec promotion and a pair of new hires. The company said today that it has upped Joni Day to Svp Alternative Programming & Development and brought Colin Nash as Svp Alternative Programming & Development and Jean Shi as VP Alternative Programming & Development.
“With Colin and Jean joining the team, along with Joni’s expanding role, we have assembled an all-star team,” said Jayson Dinsmore, President of Alternative Programming & Development at Fmna. “Each of these individuals comes with a diverse background and brings a unique skill set to the table that complements our goal of creating entertaining and compelling content for every platform.”
Day has been with Fmna since 2013, responsible for the development and production of reality competition, game show and other unscripted television programming. In her new role, she will focus on finding further global formats for broadcast. Her credits include new kids game show The Noise,...
“With Colin and Jean joining the team, along with Joni’s expanding role, we have assembled an all-star team,” said Jayson Dinsmore, President of Alternative Programming & Development at Fmna. “Each of these individuals comes with a diverse background and brings a unique skill set to the table that complements our goal of creating entertaining and compelling content for every platform.”
Day has been with Fmna since 2013, responsible for the development and production of reality competition, game show and other unscripted television programming. In her new role, she will focus on finding further global formats for broadcast. Her credits include new kids game show The Noise,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Colin Nash has been upped to Svp Series Development of West Coast Reality Programming at MTV. Nash, who joined the network in 2010 as VP Series Development, has worked on the reincarnation of Punk’d, Buckwild and contributed to the revitalization of MTV’s longest-running series, Real World with Season 29’s popular Real World: Ex-plosion, in addition to the Real World’s successful after shows. Additionally, Nash oversaw the special, Life Continued: Defeating Depression. In his new position, Nash will continue to oversee MTV’s West Coast-based development team and reality slate, including the upcoming Slednecks, Virgin Territory and the recently announced 30th season of Real World. Based in Santa Monica, he will continue to report to Evp Lauren Dolgen, MTV Head of West Coast Reality Programming. “When Colin asked him to come to MTV to the development side he was deep into his career as a prolific showrunner,” Dolgen said.
- 5/20/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Everybody in tiny Sissonville, W.Va. -- population 4,028 at last check -- knows affable, hardworking young Shain Gandy as the town's unofficial mayor. Beginning Thursday, Jan. 3, MTV audiences will know him as the central star of the network's newest kids-on-the-loose docu-series, "Buckwild."
But, says Colin Nash, MTV's West Coast vice president of series development, this isn't simply a down-home "Jersey Shore." "It offers a completely new and unique world that our audience hasn't really seen before," he explains of the show brought to him by Zoo Productions and Parallel Entertainment, who met the core cast while filming another show nearby.
"We just fell in love from the second that we met them," Nash tells Zap2it. "Shain Gandy, who is just such a lovable, amazing character, introduced us to his world and his group of friends. And a lot of it takes place in the holler where he lives. He...
But, says Colin Nash, MTV's West Coast vice president of series development, this isn't simply a down-home "Jersey Shore." "It offers a completely new and unique world that our audience hasn't really seen before," he explains of the show brought to him by Zoo Productions and Parallel Entertainment, who met the core cast while filming another show nearby.
"We just fell in love from the second that we met them," Nash tells Zap2it. "Shain Gandy, who is just such a lovable, amazing character, introduced us to his world and his group of friends. And a lot of it takes place in the holler where he lives. He...
- 1/3/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Buckwild girls Shae, Cara, Ashley, Anna, Katie and Salwa star in MTV’s new reality series about friends living it up in West Virginia. Get More: Buckwild, Full Episodes MTV is replacing its reality TV staple Jersey Shore with a new series that’s just like Jersey Shore if it were set in the backwoods town of Sissonville, W.Va. Buckwild, premiering Thursday, Jan. 3, at 10pm Et/Pt follows nine young, adventurous friends who do things like transform dump trucks into pool parties, build human slingshots and go muddin’ with their four-wheelers. Related: MTV’s Colin Nash on Buckwild: “We aren’t trying to make [...]...
- 1/2/2013
- by Ryan Berenz
- ChannelGuideMag
Everybody in tiny Sissonville, Wv — population 4,028 at last check — knows affable, hardworking young Shain Gandy as the town’s “unofficial mayor” who skipped out on being prom king so he wouldn’t miss work. Beginning Jan. 3, MTV audiences will know him as the central star of the network’s newest kids-on-the-loose docuseries, Buckwild. But, says Colin Nash, MTV’s West Coast vice president of series development, this isn’t simply a downhome Jersey Shore. “It offers a completely new and unique world that our audience hasn’t really seen before,” he explains of the show brought to him by Zoo Productions and [...]...
- 12/29/2012
- by Lori Acken
- ChannelGuideMag
Los Angeles, California (X17online) - MTV has plans to revive Punk’d, with original creator Ashton Kutcher on board. Punk’d, which first aired from 2003 to 2007, is a hidden camera reality show that pranks – or "punks" – celebrities. Kutcher will executive produce alongside Lauren Dolgen, Colin Nash, Kristina Edwards, Jennifer Russakoff, and his original partner Jason Goldberg. Given his commitment to CBS’ Two and a Half Men, it is unlikely that he will return to his hosting duties this time around. MTV will give viewers a sneak peak of the reincarnated show during its New Year’s Eve special on the night of January 31st.
- 12/19/2011
- x17online.com
The CW is joining the mile high (reality) club, greenlighting production on a half-hour docusoap about flight attendants who work for uberhip upstart Virgin America. Dubbed "Fly Girls," the series will have shades of MTV's "The Hills." It will follow five Virgin flight attendants as they jet set to locales such as Las Vegas, New York and South Beach in search of "good times, great parties, adventure and love," the CW said. Eight episodes of the series, from executive producers Jeff Collins ("Bridezilla 5") and Colin Nash ...
- 9/23/2009
- by Adalian
- The Wrap
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