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EXCLUSIVE: “Who said you can’t spell location again?,” says erstwhile NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, who is returning to NBCUniversal arsenic a shaper aft 8 years. He has signed a first-look woody pinch Universal Television, a section of Universal Studio Group, to create and nutrient TV projects done his accumulation company, The Green Room. Jon Wu continues arsenic nan company’s Head of Filmed Content.
The first task nether nan pact is The Lies I Tell, a bid adjustment of nan 2022 bestselling caller by Julie Clark, pinch Ken Olin attached to executive produce.
Greenblatt has remained successful business pinch Universal Television aft he near NBCU successful 2018 pursuing a seven-year stint arsenic Chairman of NBC Entertainment, during which he oversaw each primetime, late-night and scripted daytime programming for nan network, arsenic good arsenic Universal Television, Universal Television Alternative Studio and Universal Stage Productions.
He serves arsenic an executive shaper of HBO’s deed play play The Gilded Age, which is produced by Universal Television. A passion task for Greenblatt, he greenlighted nan bid from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes for NBC during his clip astatine NBCU. He past picked it up for HBO during his WarnerMedia stint overseeing nan premium cablegram marque and launching HBO Max.
“Bob is simply a well-respected imaginative unit successful nan industry. Welcoming him backmost to Universal Television feels some breathtaking and fitting,” Erin Underhill, President of Universal Television, said. “His taste, imagination and relationships person shaped immoderate of television’s astir enduring hits, and we can’t hold to collaborate pinch him connected what comes next.”
For Greenblatt, who antecedently had a first-look woody pinch Lionsgate Television, nan pact pinch Universal Television marks different reunion, pinch Pearlena Igbokwe, Chairman, Television Studios, NBC Entertainment & Peacock Scripted. She was Greenblatt’s Head of Drama Development during his tenure arsenic President of Showtime Networks, and he brought her complete to NBCUniversal soon aft taking complete NBC successful 2011, first arsenic Head of Drama for NBC and subsequently arsenic President of Universal Television.
“I’m overjoyed to beryllium coming backmost to NBCU to nutrient shows pinch my aged friends astatine Universal Television,” Greenblatt said. “Pearlena Igbokwe – pinch whom I worked intimately for 15 years astatine Showtime and NBC – has built Universal Studio Group into an extraordinary, world-class studio. Jon Wu and I look guardant to moving pinch her and her bonzer teams, headed by Erin Underhill astatine UTV. This is an breathtaking clip for producers successful television, and we’re thrilled to person this unthinkable group supporting us. Who said you can’t spell location again?”
The Lies I Tell is a cat-and-mouse thriller astir a chameleon-like con artist, Meg, and a journalist, Kat Roberts, who has been waiting 10 years for nan female who upended her life to return. And now that she has, Kat is wished to beryllium nan 1 to expose her. But arsenic nan 2 women turn closer, Kat’s long-held assumptions statesman to crumble, leaving Kat to wonderment who Meg’s existent target is.
Ken Olin, Roxanne Olin, Greenblatt, Wu, and Clark executive produce.
Greenblatt’s runs arsenic a apical executive astatine NBC and Showtime yielded specified hits arsenic The Voice, This Is Us, The Blacklist, The Good Place, One Chicago, The Sound of Music unrecorded philharmonic and nan Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors movies (NBC) arsenic good arsenic Dexter, Weeds, Nurse Jackie, Shameless and Californication (Showtime).
A four-time Tony-winning producer, Greenblatt is simply a lead shaper of nan revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center this season. Last season, he produced Smash, nan musical, connected Broadway pinch Steven Spielberg, based connected nan TV bid he had antecedently greenlighted astatine NBC. As a TV producer, Greenblatt is simply a six-time Emmy nominee, including 4 times successful nan Outstanding Drama Series category, 3 times for Six Feet Under and erstwhile for The Gilded Age.
Wu, who will service arsenic an executive shaper alongside Greenblatt connected each The Green Room projects nether nan Uni TV deal, was antecedently VP of Film and Television astatine Hello Sunshine, wherever he served arsenic nan on‑set shaper for Season 2 of The Morning Show and Season 1 of Surface, both for Apple TV. He besides executive produced nan movie Where nan Crawdads Sing. Previously, Wu worked successful nan characteristic movie section astatine 20th Century Fox.
