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Belisa Balaban & Tiffany Faigus Exit As Disney Merges ABC & Hulu Unscripted Programming Teams Following Layoffs
Deadline understands that the company is combining the unscripted teams at ABC Entertainmentand Hulu. The move was made by Rob Mills, EVP Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment at Walt Disney Television.
As a result, two of the unscripted team’s senior vice presidents are exiting as part of the layoffs.
We hear that Tiffany Faigus, who is SVP Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, ABC Entertainment and Walt Disney Television Alternative, and Belisa Balaban, SVP Original Documentaries and Unscripted Series, Hulu Originals, are out.
Faigus has been with ABC since 2015. She was promoted in 2021, having previously been VP Alternative Series and Specials, taking on a new role that encompassed both the network and the unscripted studio side of the business at Walt Disney Television Alternative. Faigus has worked on shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,...
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Disney Entertainment Television Lays Off 140 Staffers, Including 13% of National Geographic Workforce
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After the Surge of Mergers: TV Offers New Opportunities for Docmakers
From 99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film. Photo: Alex Franklin. Courtesy ov Sundance Film Festival
Toward the end of 2012, the documentary community heard a number of major announcements coming out of the television space that raised hopes that the independent documentary would have more homes, beyond the august stalwarts HBO and PBS.
In short order, CNN announced the launch of CNN Films; Participant Media acquired The Documentary Channel and Halogen TV, with the intent of creating a TV presence; Al Jazeera acquired Current TV, thereby gaining a valuable foothold in the US market; and KCET-TV, the Los Angeles-based public television station, made its first major move since departing from the PBS fold by merging with Link TV, the San Francisco-based satellite television network. In addition, Showtime launched Sho Close-Up this past March, a strand of profiles of controversial figures such as former Vice President Dick Cheney, record mogul Suge Knight and comedian Richard Pryor. Epix just completed a slate of seven original docs this spring, called Epix Docs. Finally, ESPN will complement its heralded 30 for 30 program with Nine for IX, a summer-long series of documentaries by and abo
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