Updated: Day 2 of Disney’s second wave of layoffs has involved staff reduction in first-run syndication, unscripted/alternative as well as marketing and communications.
Disney TV Animation, responsible for 1,200 half-hours of animated content, including Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, is the latest division to be hit as it also merges the current and development teams. This has led to the departure of a number of executives including Khaki Jones, SVP Current, who has been with the company for nearly 13 years, as well as a number of director level roles.
Disney’s first-run syndication operation has been dissolved. Departing as part of that is Brent Jones, director and head of production finance & operations for first-run syndication.
Also leaving are VP Kim Harbin, a respected communications executive who has been at Disney for 25 years, as well as Tom Connor, VP Creative Marketing. Their functions will be absorbed by the marketing...
Disney TV Animation, responsible for 1,200 half-hours of animated content, including Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, is the latest division to be hit as it also merges the current and development teams. This has led to the departure of a number of executives including Khaki Jones, SVP Current, who has been with the company for nearly 13 years, as well as a number of director level roles.
Disney’s first-run syndication operation has been dissolved. Departing as part of that is Brent Jones, director and head of production finance & operations for first-run syndication.
Also leaving are VP Kim Harbin, a respected communications executive who has been at Disney for 25 years, as well as Tom Connor, VP Creative Marketing. Their functions will be absorbed by the marketing...
- 4/26/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva and Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The fourth and final season of FX’s “Atlanta” has set a premiere date for September, with episodes streaming on Hulu the following day after air.
Starring series creator Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz, the forthcoming season finds Earn, Alfred, Darius and Van back in their hometown of Atlanta after their Season 3 journey across Europe, with the overarching theme of the new season pondering whether the city has changed or if they have.
The teaser highlights many references from the show’s 31-episode run to date, including the invisible car from Season 1 episode “The Club” and an appearance from fan-favorite side character Zan, played by Freddie Kuguru. The third season featured the main cast traveling throughout Europe in just more than half of its ten episodes with the other episodes shifting back to Atlanta, containing anthology stories focused on new characters.
Glover executive produces “Atlanta...
Starring series creator Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz, the forthcoming season finds Earn, Alfred, Darius and Van back in their hometown of Atlanta after their Season 3 journey across Europe, with the overarching theme of the new season pondering whether the city has changed or if they have.
The teaser highlights many references from the show’s 31-episode run to date, including the invisible car from Season 1 episode “The Club” and an appearance from fan-favorite side character Zan, played by Freddie Kuguru. The third season featured the main cast traveling throughout Europe in just more than half of its ten episodes with the other episodes shifting back to Atlanta, containing anthology stories focused on new characters.
Glover executive produces “Atlanta...
- 7/22/2022
- by Carson Burton, EJ Panaligan and Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Disney Television Animation, the animation wing of Disney Branded Television, has upped Douglas Bensimon and Edward Mejia to Vice President of Current Series.
In their new roles, the executives will continue reporting to Khaki Jones, Senior Vice President of Current Series.
Bensimon currently heads up a team that oversees Disney Television Animation’s serialized properties for Disney Channel and Disney+. He also works with Marvel Studios on content geared towards families and kids aged 6-14. Bensimon has been a member of the Disney Television Animation department since 2012, when he got his start as a Current Series assistant and worked his way up through the positions of coordinator, manager and director. He was tapped as executive director of Current Series in 2021, leading projects such as Marvel’s “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” for Disney+ and Disney Channel’s “The Ghost and Molly McGee” and “Amphibia.”
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In their new roles, the executives will continue reporting to Khaki Jones, Senior Vice President of Current Series.
Bensimon currently heads up a team that oversees Disney Television Animation’s serialized properties for Disney Channel and Disney+. He also works with Marvel Studios on content geared towards families and kids aged 6-14. Bensimon has been a member of the Disney Television Animation department since 2012, when he got his start as a Current Series assistant and worked his way up through the positions of coordinator, manager and director. He was tapped as executive director of Current Series in 2021, leading projects such as Marvel’s “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” for Disney+ and Disney Channel’s “The Ghost and Molly McGee” and “Amphibia.”
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- 7/22/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Veteran Disney execs Douglas Bensimon and Edward Mejia have been promoted to vice president of Current Series, Disney Television Animation, the animation studio within Disney Branded Television.
Bensimon leads a team concentrated primarily on the studio’s serialized properties for Disney+ and Disney Channel and works closely with Marvel on its branded content for kids 6-14 and families.
Meanwhile, Mejia leads a team that focuses on Disney Television Animation’s titles borne from Disney heritage characters and stories for Disney+ and Disney Channel.
Both Bensimon and Mejia continue to report to Khaki Jones, senior vice president of Current Series, Disney Television Animation.
“One of our guiding principles is to prepare high-potential team members for greater levels of responsibility and to recognize the contributions of innovative, diverse, ready-to-lead executives”, said Meredith Roberts, executive vice president of TV Animation. “As a result of their sheer talent, solid experience and Khaki’s mentorship,...
Bensimon leads a team concentrated primarily on the studio’s serialized properties for Disney+ and Disney Channel and works closely with Marvel on its branded content for kids 6-14 and families.
Meanwhile, Mejia leads a team that focuses on Disney Television Animation’s titles borne from Disney heritage characters and stories for Disney+ and Disney Channel.
Both Bensimon and Mejia continue to report to Khaki Jones, senior vice president of Current Series, Disney Television Animation.
“One of our guiding principles is to prepare high-potential team members for greater levels of responsibility and to recognize the contributions of innovative, diverse, ready-to-lead executives”, said Meredith Roberts, executive vice president of TV Animation. “As a result of their sheer talent, solid experience and Khaki’s mentorship,...
- 7/22/2022
- by Sofia Behzadi
- Deadline Film + TV
In what is believed to be the biggest group promotion ever at Disney Channel, the network has upped 11 executive and staffers across its business to Svp and VP level. The promotions follows a ramp-up of Disney Channel’s output over the past 18 months to 450-500 new live-action and animated episodes and several original movies for Disney Channel and Disney Junior, plus more series and movies exclusively for Disney+.
“The strengths and capabilities of our team differentiate us from the competition; with these promotions, we acknowledge many of those who have contributed significantly to our success,” Gary Marsh, president and chief creative officer, Disney Channels Worldwide, said in making the announcement. “They are driven by a passion for the optimistic Disney brand, and they prioritize what is truly important in telling great stories for preschoolers, kids, tweens and families. They also have innovative ideas and the confidence, passion and wisdom to thrive in a creative environment,...
“The strengths and capabilities of our team differentiate us from the competition; with these promotions, we acknowledge many of those who have contributed significantly to our success,” Gary Marsh, president and chief creative officer, Disney Channels Worldwide, said in making the announcement. “They are driven by a passion for the optimistic Disney brand, and they prioritize what is truly important in telling great stories for preschoolers, kids, tweens and families. They also have innovative ideas and the confidence, passion and wisdom to thrive in a creative environment,...
- 3/10/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The rebuilding of Disney Television Animation, which started in 2008 with the hire of Nickelodeon veteran Eric Coleman as Svp Original Series, continues. Coleman has assembled his new executive team, which includes Michael McGahey, Khaki Jones and Jonathan Schneider. Additionally, the division's project Gravity Falls has been picked to series at Disney Channel for a spring 2012 premiere, while freshman Disney Channel series Fish Hooks has been renewed for a second season. Since its September premiere, Fish Hooks, which features 2D animation characters set against photo-real backgrounds, has unseated Disney TV Animation's other hit, Phineas and Ferb, as TV's No.1 animated series among kids 6-14. The series was created by and is co-executive produced by illustrator Noah Z. Jones, developed by Alex Hirsch and executive produced by Maxwell Atoms. Hot up-and-comer Hirsch, a recent Cal Arts graduate, created Gravity Falls, a stylized animated comedy about twin siblings who are thrust into...
- 12/8/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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