‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Producer A. Smith & Co. Promotes Eli Baldrige
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Eli Baldrige is getting upped. A. Smith & Co. has promoted Baldrige to EVP, Development. It comes two years after his previous promotion to SVP.
Baldrige leads development at the company, which is behind Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen and NBC’s American Ninja Warrior. Recent credits include Magnolia Network’s Human vs Hamster, which also airs on Max, and Roku’s WWE: Next Gen as well as TLC’s Welcome to Plathville and Netflix’s Voices of Fire with Pharrell Williams and Canine Intervention.
Before joining A. Smith & Co., he worked on series such as ESPN’s Sport Science and The Weather Channel’s Brainstorm as well as docs such as The Impossible Journey, Citizen Soldier and Apache Warrior. “Eli has been an integral leader and developer here at A.
Smith and Co. for many years, not only creating innovative shows that bend genre limits, but seeing them through to wide-reaching success,” said Arthur Smith, Chairman and CEO of A.
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