Netflix’s Kristen Zolner Joins Imagine As Head Of Television
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment has tapped Netflix executive Kristen Zolner as Head of Imagine Television.
This marks the first major executive hire since Tony Hernandez & Lilly Burns, co-founders of Imagine-owned Jax Media, were named Presidents of Imagine Entertainment earlier this month, overseeing film and television for Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s indie company, which has been the center of acquisition speculation.Zolner, who will oversee all scripted television development and production, succeeds Samie Kim Falvey who left in September to join Picturestart.“We have worked with Kristen across many shows for years, and have always been wildly impressed by her taste and creative instincts.
We are confident in her ability to push boundaries and deliver ground-breaking television,” Hernandez and Burns said in a joint statement.For more than seven years, Zolner served as Director, Original Series, at Netflix where she oversaw such series as Emily in Paris, which is produced by Jax Media, Dead To Me, Big Mouth, The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl in the Window, Maniac, and Master of None, as well as the upcoming The Pentaverate starring Mike Myers, Uncoupled, and Untitled Mo Amer.
Zolner initiated the optioning of Michelle Buteau’s bestselling book Survival of The Thickest, which was recently greenlit to series by Netflix.
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