MTV has announced the promotion of several key members of its development team. Shannon Fitzgerald has been named SVP Series Development; Jessica Zalkind is now SVP Talent and Series Development; and Karen Frank, Christy Spitzer, and Tiffany Lea Williams have all been named VP Series Development. The promotions were announced by David Janollari, head of Programming, and Chris Linn, EVP of Programming and Head of Production for MTV.


That’s a lot of people to option a show idea, attempt to remove all original thought and creativity from it, put the show on the air for several episodes, and then decide to cancel it right when the show starts to find an audience and its creative stride.
Yes! More folks to spin terms like “Millennial fun”
MTV development meeting stories are some of the funniest writers swap.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh wait, that’s not a joke? Didn’t Fitzgerald the ‘Accidental Executive’ tell everyone she was SVP when she was hired? Well, good news for the creative community! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
Not sure I understand . . .Jacklyn French has Jersey, Lauren Dolgen has Teen Mom and all the cool dude shit and they bot have been there for like 15 years and earned their SVP’s. . . what does Shannon have? Does she have a show on air yet even . . .Hollywood is the only place where you can fail forward. Gotta love this town.
I want skins back too.