NBC Shuffles Executive Ranks in Burbank

NBC announced a shake-up in its Burbank executive ranks, with three high-level programmers pushed out to make room for two studio executives.

Katherine Pope, an executive at NBC Universal Television Studio, was named executive vice president of NBC Entertainment, the chief deputy to Entertainment President Kevin Reilly. Pope will be in charge of NBC’s new series development. Another studio executive, Jeff Ingold, was named head of NBC’s comedy development.

NBC said that Michael Thorn was leaving. Roles for Ghen Maynard, Reilly’s previous second in command, and comedy development chief Cheryl Dolins have not been determined.