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Aaron Meyerson To Replace Terry Wood At CBS Television Distribution

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 3, 2011 @ 12:11pm PSTTags: CBS Development, CBS Television Distribution, Terry Wood Departure, TV
Nellie Andreeva

CBS Television Distribution president John Nogawski went outside the company and outside the syndication world for a successor to Terry Wood, president of creative affairs and development, who recently departed CTD after 12 years. Aaron Meyerson, whose background is in cable reality TV,  digital media and features, has been named president, programming and development for CBS TV Distribution. He will be responsible for all first-run development and will oversee CTD’s current programming, including veterans Entertainment Tonight, Judge Judy and Rachael Ray. Nogawski acknowledged Meyerson’s unorthodox background in his statement. “Having developed hit shows for Oxygen and MTV, Aaron brings a new sensibility to the syndication marketplace,” Nogawski said. “He comes to us with a fresh set of eyes, knowledge of our core female audience and an acumen for creating new financial models for production.”

Meyerson joins CTD from the digital media tech startup, Coincident TV, where he was a principal. Previously, he spent eight years developing unscripted programming for cable networks.  As SVP alternative programming for MTV, he oversaw development and production of such reality series as Paris Hilton: My New BFF, A Double Shot at Love and Bully Beatdown.  In his three years as SVP development and production for Oxygen Network, he developed such shows as Tori and Dean, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, The Bad Girls Club, Mo’nique’s Fat Chance and Snapped, as well as made-for-TV movies. From 2001 to 2005, Meyerson was SVP non-scripted programming and business development at Fox Television Studios. Before that, he was a feature film studio executive at New Line Cinema and The Walt Disney Studios and a producer of such films as Dumb and Dumber, Inspector Gadget, Meet the Deedles and  Above the Rim.

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‘CSI’ Creator Sells Quartet Of Drama Projects

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 7, 2010 @ 4:00am PSTTags: CBS Development, CBS TV Studios, CSI Anthony Zuiker, TV, TV Deals
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Anthony Zuicker’s Dare To Pass Prods. is having its busiest development season ever with four projects sold to the broadcast networks and several more in final stages of development at CBS TV Studios where the company is based … Read More »

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Terry Wood To Depart CBS TV Distribution

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 29, 2010 @ 6:10pm PSTTags: CBS, CBS Development, CBS Television Distribution, Nancy O'Dell Entertainment Tonight, Terry Wood Departure, TV
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CBS Developing Comedy Starring Rob Riggle And Written by Robert Smigel

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday November 18, 2010 @ 2:17pm PSTTags: CBS Development, Rob Riggle, Rob Riggle CBS Holding Contract, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: CBS loves Rob Riggle. For a third consecutive development season, the network has made finding a starring vehicle for the former Daily Show correspondent a priority. CBS is in negotiations for a half-hour comedy project from Saturday Night veteran Robert Smigel to which Riggle is attached to star. The untitled comedy centers on a gregarious guy (Riggle) who winds up as a real estate agent working for the nerd he made fun of in high school. The project was pitched straight to the network and will be laid off at sister studio CBS TV Studios. Smigel, Riggle, Peter Principato and Paul Young are executive producing. Read More »

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CBS Develops Sitcom Based On ‘The Girls’ – Yet Another Of Ashton’s Twitter Concepts

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 15, 2010 @ 1:15pm PDTTags: CBS Development, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

Yet another Twitter feed is taking the sitcom route via CBS. The network is developing a comedy series based on Charlie McDowell’s feed and Web site Dear Girls Above Me, about a single man who gains insight into the female mind by eavesdropping on his upstairs neighbors. The Girls feed, which has more than 34,000 followers, consists of imaginary 140-character letters McDowell writes to the party girls who live in the apartment above him in reaction to conversations he overhears. Some recent examples:

Dear GAM, Your “friend” from last night was fun, but did he need to grunt, “You like that,” over and over? It seemed pretty clear you did.

Dear Girls Above Me, “Did you hear that all these kids were rescued in Chile after being trapped in some mountain?” Miners, not minors.

Dear GAM,”I found out he’s taking me to a 3D movie! If the glasses aren’t cute I will literally die.” Just focus on not making out with air.

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