Warner Bros. TV Group Restructures; WBTV, Warner Horizon Scripted TV to Merge

Amid the greater restructuring happening at AT&T-owned WarnerMedia, Warner Bros. Television Group is realigning its scripted and unscripted TV production operations, merging Warner Bros. Television and Warner Horizon Scripted TV to create a new division.

The scripted and unscripted units will be led by WBTV presidents Susan Rovner and Brett Paul, and Warner Bros. unscripted and alternative TV president Mike Darnell, respectively.

Rovner and Paul will continue to lead the newly combined WBTV together, overseeing all scripted programming and reporting to WBTVG chairman Peter Roth; Rovner and Paul had previously headed both WBTV and and Warner Horizon.

Clancy Collins White, most recently exec VP of drama development at WBTV, has been promoted to a newly created position overseeing, day to day, all scripted program development for the new WBTV, reporting to Rovner.

Leigh London Redman will lead drama development and oversee the newly combined drama team. Adrienne Turner will continue to run comedy development as senior VP and head of comedy development. Odetta Watkins and Maddy Horne will continue on in their roles as exec vps of current programming in the premium cable and network series departments, respectively.

On the unscripted side, Brooke Karzen will continue to run development and programming for Warner Horizon Unscripted TV, David McGuire will continue to lead current programming and additionally oversee development at Telepictures. Lisa Shannon and Dan Pierson will continue to jointly run development and programming at Shed Media.

Kevin Fortson, most recently exec VP of production at Warner Horizon, and Matt Matzkin, most recently exec VP of business affairs at the company, will now take on new leadership roles across all unscripted, reporting to Darnell.

The role of exec VP and GM Telepictures is being phased out; Donna Redier Linsk had previously occupied that position. A Warner Bros. spokesperson declined to comment on whether Linsk will take on a different role within the company in a different capacity.