EXCLUSIVE: Amy Hartwick is stepping down as SVP, Creative Development, ABC Studios where she has overseen comedy development since June 2011
Hartwick is the third top ABC Studios executive to depart the studio, now part of Disney TV Studios. Under aannounced this morning, ABC Studios president Patrick Moran and the studio’s EVP Business Operations Howard Davine stepped down and will be replaced by two senior 20th Century Fox TV executives, Jonnie Davis and Josh Sussman, respectively.
There is no immediate replacement for Hartwick, whose exit is not believed to be part of a major executive overhaul by new ABC Studios President Davis. There aren’t any other immediate changes in the ranks at the studio planned, I hear.Hartwick, who has a long track record in comedy development, was one of Moran’s first hires and has been among his closest associates at the studio.
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