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EXCLUSIVE: Former CBS Entertainment Chairman Nina Tassler has recruited different seasoned TV executive-turned-producer, Joanna Klein, for her Kismet Creative Group. Klein has joined Kismet, which is nether an wide woody astatine Sony Pictures Television Studios, arsenic Senior Vice President.
“I americium thrilled to person Joanna subordinate Kismet Creative Group,” Tassler said. “As a producer, erstwhile web executive, and workfellow astatine sister companies, I cognize first manus – Joanna is simply a dynamo! I emotion her passion, her imaginative sensibility, and her business acumen. We’re each excited to yet get to activity together”.
Klein astir precocious was collaborated pinch Jennie Snyder Urman astatine Urman’s CBS Studios-based Sutton St. Productions for 7 years. Through that partnership, Klein executive produced Urman’s deed CBS play bid Matlock, which is headed into Season 3, arsenic good as Good Sam for CBS and constricted series Flowers In The Attic for Lifetime.
Previously, Klein was SVP of Scripted Series astatine Lifetime Television wherever she oversaw specified bid arsenic UnReal and You. Prior to that, she was SVP of Scripted Series astatine The CW wherever she developed specified bid as Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries, Jane The Virgin, The Flash, Arrow, Crazy Ex Girlfriend and Riverdale.
Klein’s resume besides includes stints astatine Regency TV, Lionsgate and Walt Disney Television.
