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Gary Levine to Retire From Showtime After 40 Years in Programming
Gary Levine will retire from Showtime after 25 years as the No. 2 programming executive, and after 40 years in TV. Showrunners sing his praises.
Levine came to Paramount Global-owned Showtime to help what was then a premium cable channel evolve its programming strategy from one rooted in a slate of original made-for-TV movies to a schedule of recurring weekly comedy and drama series. For most of his Showtime years, Levine served as executive VP of original series, working under four different entertainment chiefs: Jerry Offsay, Bob Greenblatt, David Nevins and most recently Chris McCarthy, who is also co-CEO of Paramount Global. “I’m proud of the writers we moved into television,” Levine says, citing such prominent scribes as Ilene Chaiken (“The L Word”), Michael Hurst (“The Tudors,”), John Logan (“Penny Dreadful”) and the “Billions” duo of Brian Koppelman and David Levien.
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