Melanie Frankel has left ABC Signature where she served as head of comedy for the past year and a half. According to sources, Frankel’s contract was up and she opted to depart.
She has not yet decided what she will do next. Meanwhile, ABC Signature, part of Disney Television Studios, is searching for a new head of comedy.Frankel, then VP Current at ABC Studios, was named head of comedy for the studio (later renamed ABC Signature) in October 2019 in the first major executive appointment for Jonnie Davis after he became ABC Studios president.
Most of Frankel’s tenure was during the pandemic, which altered the broadcast development cycle. None of ABC Signature’s 2021 comedy pilots were picked up to series but most had been put in development
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