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Lauren Dolgen has been promoted to SVP of MTV Series Development, West Coast for MTV. She will oversee west coast reality programming for the network and be responsible for managing west coast slate and staff, including the pending hire of several new executives. Dolgen created MTV’s hit reality series 16 & Pregnant and oversaw the development of its spinoff, Teen Mom. Dolgen joined MTV after college. In 1997, she was hired as a production associate on VH1’s Behind The Music, and joined MTV in 1998 where she became a production coordinator. The following year, Ms. Dolgen joined the series development team.
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Finally. Lauren has been the backbone of that dept for years and this is well deserved. After failing to keep a couple great development execs recently, I am glad to see they are doing something right over there.
lauren is a consummate pro. she doesn’t pander to other execs and has a producer’s instinct when it comes to her work, unlike most development execs. she doesn’t get bogged down by the politics and doesn’t do lunch or hang out with agents.
Lauren is obviously very savvy. How can she allow domestic abuse in front of an 2year old on the “reality” show Teen Mom. Once again the media is doing a great job of creating stars out of the deviant behavior of our most uninformed, unstable, and unkind people. She should also be in trouble under the Indiana law that makes it illegal to allow abuse to occur in front of a child. Shame on the producers of this show. Shame on the advertisers who support it.
Lauren is among the best executives in town and this couldn’t be more appropriate.
Lauren truly deserves this. She is one of the good ones, incredibly hard working, honest and truly one of a kind.
Congrats lovely!
nepotism is alive and well.
prove me wrong and tell me she’s not related to Jonathan Dolgen
she worked her way up throught the ranks, over many years, just like anyone else. she works hard, she’s talented and smart. what’s your problem?
Yes, nepotism is alive and well. I worked with Lauren when she was a production coordinator at MTV (her dad Jonathan got her the job). She was miserable and wanted to try a different department. SO her dad got her a “manager of development” job where she researched and read magazines all day looking for ideas. So, yes, thanks to daddy dearest -nepotism is alive and well -and that’s the ugly truth. SHe may deserve this promotion but she got to where she is because of her name.
You’re a hack and not in the reality business if you believe that because if you worked with her you couldn’t possibly believe that.
dude, you’re so wrong on this one. If anything, Jon should be rewarded for raising a bright, witty and hard-working daughter. She deserves this, so stop with the green monster.
There is no one who knows the business of MTV better while somehow staying above the fray. I think every producer in town is happy with this call.
lauren is one of the most honest and hard working people I know.
MAZEL!
Would this be Jonathan Dolgen’s daughter? Must have been nice to get a foot that big in the door.
Lauren is the coolest, hippest creative exec out there. High five, Lauren!
This news makes me so happy! I’ve had the unique honor of working with her for 2 years now! Lauren rules!
MTV did it right with this promotion. Maybe some continuity over there will get MTV back to where it once was with interesting and innovative TV
Lauren – congrats is certainly in order. You deserve this and have a contagious passion for what you do and that inspires all of us…
To those of you have the audacity to say Lauren is a product of nepotism being alive and well shows just how little you know. Lauren began at the absolute bottom of the barrel and has worked (for over a decade) to make her own mark. She never once used her last name or her father to unfairly advance within the company. She is responsible for much of the recent success and her creative stamp, integrity, kindness and track record should speak for itself. I’ve known Lauren since high school. She is a class act. She is as kind as the day is long (and believe you me — it is long). She is super cool and just an overall great human being who deserves this promotion. Those who are ignorant speak foolishly and should know the real history of Lauren before you talk shit.
So being chosen as an intern, out of tens if not hundreds of candidates, at MTV Europe had nothing to do with her last name in 1997? Hahahaha, you’re kidding yourself! Then getting a job on VH-1′s Behind The Music and at MTV in 1998 had nothing to do with her last name? Why didn’t she get a job at WB, Disney Channel, or any other entertainment property? Did she apply and not get hired?
And you’re gonna tell me that from 1997 to 2004, every manager she ever had didn’t make sure they paid attention to her career? You don’t think they listened to her and gave her a chance more than every other P.A.? Give me a break! I’m sure there were other P.A.s that worked just as hard and were just as creative.
I worked with Lauren for four years and she is terrific. I am so happy for her and thrilled that Lifetime finally rewarded a rare combination of loyalty, talent and personality.
Ha ha! I mean MTV. I work at Lifetime. Freudian slip?
I’m with Brian on this one
what an ignorant prick says such a thing., if she was throwing around her fathers name to get by, it wouldn’t have taken this long to get to where she is now dummy.
OVer a decade as Brian stated.
She started from the bottom up and not once called in any favors. Shame on you for a cowardly attempt to belittle this woman’s name and all the hard work she’s put into her career and all the people she has helped along the way.
Go run a long to your troll castle, and keep wishing you had a tenth of the class, impeccable work ethic and success Lauren has.
I first met Lauren 6 yrs ago when I started at MTV and she treated me with class, respect and coolness…still does. No one knew who I was or what I did so she couldve continued to hang with the jocks instead of me, duckie and the geeks on the hill. She is a class act and has tought me much about series and reality that I know today. Congrats LD- you so deserve this!
Oh of course the asshats have to come out with the nepotism thing.
I had the pleasure of working with Lauren, and this is all I can say:
Lauren has worked her heart out for more than 12 years at that company. She got their through – SHOCKINGLY – hard work, being smart as a whip and cool as all hell. Never once has her father’s position even been an issue, nor mentioned EVER, especially by Lauren. You’re totally clueless as NO ONE would have an unkind word to say about her, and your judgment is waaay off base. Jealousy is an ugly little beast. You might wanna kill yours NOW.
Dolgen is a super class act. One of the hardest workers I ever met. I worked for her for 3 years and she knows reality tv like no other. Lauren has worked her BUTT off to get where she is today. Couldn’t have happened to a better woman!
Much deserved. A class act who treats everyone with respect. Congrats, Lauren.
Hey, nepotism has been around ever since the Pharoahs. Even God gave his own son J.C. the top gig.
I’m sure Lauren is a bright, classy talented woman who would have risen in the ranks any where she chose to work. But she happened to choose MTV so I happen to be making nepotism jokes.
She is one of the coolest, most down to Earth people I know and, as a child of a well known person, the accusation of Nepotism is unfounded. Actually, it usually cuts the other way. She’s never had to live up to a name, she’s created her own. Congrats!
No one deserves this more than Lauren. It figures it took the executives up top too long to give her a promotion she should have gotten years ago. Hopefully she will take over one day because that is the caliber of talent the network needs to save themselves. So many people avoid working with MTV because of current upper management. They feed off of people like Lauren to make themselves look good and then take credit for her hard work. Nice to see there is some justice bubbling up in that political pariah’s nest. GO LAUREN!!!
I think this is a great promotion. I love Lauren. I’m very glad they promoted her and got rid of Heather.
An incredibly long overdue move on MTV’s part.
This girl knows her stuff — and is truly one of the finest people in this town.
Her programming is heads and shoulders above most of the other stuff on the channel.
Kudos to LD for sticking it out and for rising above the gossip and the internal strife there.
MTV wins on this one.
i was a senior exec in the development department when la dolgen joined the department replacing a truly skilled coordinator. can’t say that la dolgen did much while i was there but she her personality is truly great. couldn’t help but think she got her start because of her last name because but she didn’t throw it around. her ascendancy reminds me of another exec who rose to svp, drew tappon, who started out as an assistant. i think la dolgens rise can be attributed as much to attrition as to talent and name. if she is as good as others here have written, how come she never left for bigger jobs or was recruited? still, she is a good person and there are so few left and i am glad she has risen, however she got there.
i think all of the above comments are accurate. nepotism and hard work have kept lauren at mtv. why this long? who knows except lauren. yes she did start off researching and reading magazines as someone above wrote but that was her job and anyone in development has done this at one time or another. but to have a job completely devoted to this before the internet was a plethora of ideas was very “MTV” at that time.
i can’t help but believe la dolgen got her very first job because of her father but she never through it around when i had the opportunity to work with her. she knew very little coming into the development department but through time and attrition she has risen through the ranks. i did not know she was responsible for the baby mama shows but the success of these shows i think warrants another promotion after all these years. this isn’t her first and who knows where this will take la dolgen.
mtv networks is a very weird place to work and la dolgen is part of the family there and once you are in, you are in. witness all the outsiders, from networks and prod cos who came and went, all the while la dolgen has been in dev. might i also add, her father is no longer a part of Viacom at all.
good for lauren that she has remained in the trenches this long at mtv via whatever means it took her.