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Jessie Dicovitsky Joins Higher Ground As Head Of Television


President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s media company Higher Ground has brought in Showtime's Jessie Dicovitsky as Head of Television.

At Showtime, Dicovitsky spent the last decade working across the development and production of comedy, drama and documentary programming, including Halo, Billions, Shameless, Black Monday, The L Word: Generation Q, Episodes, Three Women and docu-series The Circus. In addition to personnel management and business development, Dicovitsky ran the corporate partnership with Simon & Schuster and key talent relationships/overall deals, including Adam McKay, Ethan Hawke, John Wells, Ilene Chaiken, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, and Sterlin Harjo. The company is in production on The Later Daters, an unscripted series about older people finding companionship, produced alongside Harvard-trained behavioral scientist, Logan Ury, who will serve as an on-air expert.

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