By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV After 14 years at the helm of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and a 25-year career in late-night, Jill Leiderman is stepping down as executive producer of the Jimmy Kimmel-headlined ABC talk show.
She will be succeeded in the job by Sharon Hoffman, former executive producer of Entertainment Tonight and CBS Evening News‘ weekend edition.
Upon graduating from Northwestern University in 1993, Leiderman landed a job as a production assistant on The Jon Stewart Show on MTV.
She spent two years with Stewart, who would go on to anchor The Daily Show, on both the MTV and syndicated incarnations of his program.
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