Veteran TV executive Channing Dungey jumps to Warner Bros.
Dungey has been named chairman, Warner Bros. Television Group, starting her tenure at the studio early next year. Dungey will succeed Peter Roth who will be stepping down from his Studio responsibilities running the TV Group and its operating divisions in early 2021. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES โ Veteran TV industry executive Channing Dungey was named chairman of the Warner Bros. Television Group after tenures at ABC and Netflix in which she shepherded hit series including โScandal." She resigned earlier this month, sparking reports that she was destined for Warner Bros. She joins Pearlena Igbokwe, head of NBC Universalโs television studios, as a rare Black executive in charge of a TV studio.
'The Hunt' pits Red vs Blue in a violent, bipartisan farce
This image released by Universal Pictures shows Betty Gilpin in a scene from "The Hunt." (Patti Perret/Universal Pictures via AP)NEW YORK, N.Y. โ Last fall, the violent satire โThe Huntโ became ensnarled by some of the very politics it so playfully parodies. Universal Pictures pulled โThe Huntโ from release after a series of deadly shootings and wave of right-wing criticism, including from President Trump. Itโs a heightened, bipartisan farce that puts the red-vs-blue vitriol of social media into a bloody action-movie blender. โWe were living through a version of what happens in โThe Hunt,โ in a way,โ says Zobel.