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EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic was deed by this morning’s latest information of Disney layoffs and 1 of its longest serving executives was 1 of those affected.
Charlie Parsons, SVP, Development astatine nan actual brand, is exiting arsenic portion of nan cuts. Parsons has been pinch nan broadcaster for complete 15 years and has worked connected immoderate of its biggest titles including One Strange Rock, Hostile Planet and Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted arsenic good arsenic caller shows including Pompeii: Out of Time pinch Tom Hiddleston and Best of nan World pinch Antoni Porowski.
Deadline understands that conscionable nether 100 labor were laid disconnected crossed Disney Entertainment Television pinch Nat Geo and ABC News being peculiarly hit.
The cuts were signaled earlier this twelvemonth by caller CEO Josh D’Amaro, who said successful April that it was looking to “streamline our operations successful various parts of nan institution to guarantee we present nan world-class productivity and invention our fans worth and expect from Disney.”
Other execs astatine Nat Geo see immoderate of Parsons’ improvement colleagues, including board successful nan section and Terry Danuser, VP, Casting and Talent Relations. Danuser, who antecedently spent complete a decade astatine Discovery, has been pinch nan institution for complete 11 years.
Parsons, not to beryllium confused pinch nan Survivor creator of nan aforesaid name, joined Nat Geo successful 2010, having antecedently been a head of contented astatine nan Travel Channel, wherever he worked connected bid including Man v. Food and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, and arsenic an executive shaper astatine Discovery Channel and Science Channel.
Other Nat Geo projects that he worked connected included Life Below Zero, events specified arsenic Earth Live and Yellowstone Live arsenic good arsenic documentaries LA 92 and The Cave and its movies specified arsenic Killing Jesus.
