Jamie Kellner Dies: TV Executive Who Helped Launch Fox & The WB Was 77
deadline.comJamie Kellner, an extremely well-respected TV executive who helped launch Fox and The WB broadcast networks, has died at the age of 77.
At Fox, Kellner developed The Simpsons, Married…With Children, In Living Color, Beverly Hills 90210 and Cops. While at The WB, he developed Dawson’s Creek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, and 7th Heaven, which he created with Aaron Spelling and Brenda Hampton.
During his time at the Frog Network, Kellner helped launch the careers of Greg Berlanti, JJ Abrams, Kevin Williamson, and Joss Whedon, and comedians like Jamie Foxx, Steve Harvey, and The Wayans Bros.
Berlanti paid tribute to the late executive saying, “I don’t think there’s another person in the history of TV that can say they helped start two new major broadcast networks (Fox and The WB).
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