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08.06.2023 - 20:27 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Berg, a 25-year CBS veteran, is stepping down as Senior Executive Vice President, Production, CBS Network Television Entertainment.
The departure is part of the ongoing consolidation across CBS Studios with Paramount TV Studios, which started when the two studios were put under the purview of George Cheeks last October. Liz Miller, EVP and Head of Production for Paramount TV Studios, will now oversee production for both studios.
The move was outlined in an internal memo sent to staff by Bryon Rubin COO and CFO of CBS Entertainment Group; to whom Miller reports, CBS Studios President David Stapf and Paramount Television Studios President Nicole Clemens. There will be a period of transition, with other changes likely; no layoffs are expected.
In November, Cheeks, President and CEO, CBS, and Chief Content Officer, News and Sports, Paramount+, outlined his vision for the two studios, which included centralizing a number of its back-end functions by installing leaders across production, finance, law, business affairs and casting. At the time, it was announced that Berg would continue to oversee production for CBS Studios while Miller would do the same at PTVS. Production are now being combined in line with the consolidation in the other non-creative areas.
“Looking to the future, this move is an extension of the Studios Group vision that George outlined for us in November: two best-in-class brands with their own leaders and separate creative teams, bolstered by streamlined support operations,” Rubin, Stapf and Clemens wrote in the memo. (You can read it in full below.)
Berg, who went by the nickname “Dr. No” for his shrewd reputation of keeping costs under control, joined CBS in 1998 when the network’s
Derek Hough is staying in shape for the summer!
Miller’s well-documented antics in the months following filming — it was the first time the actor had been seen in public in almost a year.Sporting a white suit jacket with black detailing and long wavy hair with a topknot and braids, Miller told “Flash” director Andy Muschietti on the red carpet: “I love you, maestro. I think you are amazing, and I think your work is monumental.”It was the actor’s first public comments since a raft of stories last year about erratic behavior in Hawaii and Iceland as well as their home in Vermont.Miller, who uses them/they pronouns, has been holed up at their Vermont farm for the past year while undergoing outpatient mental health treatment, their publicist told The Post.“The Flash” has gotten good-to-mixed reviews, with The Post’s Johnny Oleksinski calling it “good fun” and raving that Miller “is DC’s much-needed answer to Tom Holland’s embraceable Spider-Man.”Meanwhile, Twitter was awash with criticism of the actor this week, calling Miller an “abuser” and a “groomer,” but their rep said Miller is getting real help and is recovering.“This is not a publicity thing,” the rep said.
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historian and author Nathan Ward, who penned “Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront,” in 2010.“[Cohn] said he wouldn’t make it unless they’ve turned the mobsters into communists,” Ward, a native Brooklynite, told The Post. “If it was an anti-communist movie about the waterfront, then he could make it.
Tribeca Film Festival is in motion, and people from around the world are in New York celebrating film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. Day 3 of the festival saw the world premiere of the new HBO Sports Documentary The Golden Boy featuring executive producers Mark Wahlberg and Mario Lopez and the ‘Golden Boy’ himself, Oscar De La Hoya.The trio posed together at the Indeed Theater at Spring Studios.
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Deadline, who first reported the exit, recalled Cheeks’ vision for the studios back in November, which involved centralizing some of its back-end functions with leadership across production, finance, law, business affairs and casting. Berg was set to continue overseeing production for CBS Studios at the time, with Miller running Paramount TV.
The CW continues it push into sports.
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