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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment’s layoffs are impacting high-level TV executives. John Zaccario, President of Game Show Network, will modulation retired of his domiciled later this summertime aft 18 years astatine nan company. Also departing is Colin Davis, EVP Comedy Development astatine Sony Pictures Television Studios.
Additionally, Sony is winding down its costume rental business which nan workplace has tally for much than a century, since 1924.
As Deadline reported earlier today, a fewer 100 SPE labor are affected by nan cuts, which SPE president and CEO Ravi Ahuja said successful a memo are being done “to support our growth.”
Zaccario’s exit stems from nan February reorg that saw Suzanne Prete, who had been overseeing nan SPT’s slate of games for astir 2 years, being elevated to President, Game Shows. The consolidation move brought GSN together pinch nan studio’s crippled show accumulation group nether Prete.
Under Zaccario’s leadership, GSN grew into a apical 10 cablegram web and a apical 5 wide intermezo network. The full linear cablegram business has been steadily declining successful nan streaming era, which would explicate GSN being folded into nan studio’s crippled show portfolio. Zaccario will enactment connected to thief pinch nan transition.
Davis joined SPT arsenic Head of Comedy 3 years agone from nan Roku Channel wherever he was Head of Scripted Originals.
There had been questions astir Sony Television’s committedness to drama erstwhile nan workplace exited nan broadcast live-action drama business a fewer years ago, pinch its slate dominated by dramas.
SPT has been slow regrowing its drama footprint and presently has nan live-action series Platonic at Apple TV and Twisted Metal at Peacock and nan animated Universal Basic Guys at Fox, pinch respective projects successful development, including nan animated Swap Meet at Hulu and nan live-action Save nan Date, successful soul development.
It is unclear whether Davis will beryllium replaced.
The Sony Pictures Studios Costume Departments is described online arsenic “a starring rental location successful nan intermezo industry.” Its shutdown follows Sony’s determination to adjacent different non-core business a mates of weeks ago, House Of The Dragon VFX institution Pixomondo.
