EXCLUSIVE: Another top Comedy Central executive is exiting in the fallout from the ViacomCBS merger. Sarah Babineau, Head of Comedy Central Content & Creative Enterprises, will be departing Com…
, Head of Comedy Central Content & Creative Enterprises, will be departing Comedy Central at the end of the year. The news comes two months after she was promoted to the high-level creative post within ViacomCBS’ Entertainment & Youth unit. I hear she is among a slew of senior executives that have been let go at the network, which is in the midst of post-ViacomCBS merger layoffs.
President of Entertainment & Youth Studios Keith Cox, who was promoted alongside Babineau in January, will oversee scripted development and scripted studio production across the portfolio, I hear. Pop’s Head Original Programming and Development Justin Rosenblatt will straddle scripted and unscripted with focus on comedic content. Further integration of other teams across the networks, including talent, is expected.
In January, Comedy Central Co-head of Original Content Babineau was named to the top programming post at the network in a restructuring, which saw fellow Comedy Central’s Co-Head of Original Content Jonas Larsen step down..
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