ABC Signature President Jonnie Davis Exiting
07.07.2023 - 18:47
/ deadline.com
Jonnie Davis is leaving ABC Signature.
Davis has been President of the Disney-owned studio since 2019.
He said it has been a “privilege” to work on shows such as ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, FX’s Fleishman Is In Trouble and Hulu’s This Fool.
The move, however, is not a precursor to merging ABC Signature and 20th Television and, despite a multitude of rumors, they will continue to operate as two separate division. The company is currently searching for a replacement for Davis.
Davis took over the role of President of ABC Studios in July 2019, four months after Disney’s $71.3B of key Fox assets and the departure of then-President Patrick Moran.
He has overseen the company that makes ABC’s The Good Doctor, The Rookie and Station 19; Onyx Collective’s Reasonable Doubt and UnPrisoned; Apple TV+’s Five Days at Memorial and Bad Sisters; and Paramount+’s Criminal Minds: Evolution.
The company is also behind Amazon’s The Wilds, Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere and Tiny Beautiful Things, MGM+’s Godfather of Harlem, ABC’s The Rookie: Feds, and Nat Geo’s A Small Light.
The studios has deals with the likes of Alec Berg, Kerry Washington, Liz Tigelaar, Drew Goddard, Tony McNamara, Yara Shahidi, Natasha Rothwell, Phoebe Robinson, Bruce Miller, John Ridley and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Before becoming President of ABC Signature, Davis was President, Creative Affairs of 20th Century Fox Television (now 20th Television). He joined in 2008 as SVP Comedy Development. He helped develop shows such as NBC’s This Is Us and ABC’s Modern Family as well as its expansion into animation with Solar Opposites and Central Park.
Prior to that he was VP Comedy Development at Fox, having started in unscripted with shows such as The Simple Life, Joe Millionaire and