EXCLUSIVE: Skydance Sports has a new SVP of Alternative Unscripted.
The Paramount-owned company has hired Kitty Gambel, who was SVP, Unscripted and Alternative TV at Amazon’s MGM Alternative.
Gambel joins the company on September 8 and will report to Skydance Sports’ Head of Unscripted Jon Weinbach.
At MGM Alternative, Gambel was the creative lead, where she oversaw development and current programming across its slate. This includes NBC’s The Voice, CBS’s Survivor, ABC’s Shark Tank, Fox’s Beat Shazam, and Amazon’s American Gladiators.
Gambel has also worked with the likes of MrBeast, also known as Jimmy Donaldson, Jelly Roll, Jimmy Kimmel and Garcelle Beauvais.
She originally reported to Barry Poznick, who was General Manager of Unscripted Television at Amazon MGM Studios, and then when he left at the end of last year, briefly reported to Head of Global TV Peter Friedlander, before Amazon hired Jenn Levy as its unscripted boss in January.
Before joining MGM in 2019, she spent over eight years at SallyAnn Salsano’s 495 Productions, where she worked on series including The Real, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, Floribama Shore, and Party Down South.
She got her start in syndication with series such as Judge Judy, Divorce Court, and Maury.
Skydance Sports is behind a raft of sports documentaries including Netflix’s Rafa, America’s Team: The Gambler and his Cowboys and Aaron Rodgers: Enigma, Apple’s The Dynasty: UConn Huskies, Amazon’s Taurasi and Kelce as well as Hallmark scripted series Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck movie Air.
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