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Netflix Hires Jeff Gaspin As VP Unscripted Series In Coup For Streamer
Netflix has hired Jeff Gaspin as VP Unscripted Series, a big coup for Netflix, which has been searching for a high-profile figure to lead its reality business.
Gaspin’s hiring will give Riegg, who also oversees Netflix’s booming sports-adjacent business as well as its documentary universe, the opportunity to look big picture while having a respected exec to take pitches and share the load on entertainment formats. This marks a return to the executive ranks for Gaspin who spent almost two decades at NBCU, rising to chairman of NBC Universal TV Entertainment with oversight of a portfolio spanning 16 broadcast and cable networks before he exited after the Comcast merger in 2010. In another link to his new job at Netflix, Gaspin first made his mark as President of Bravo where he bought and launched two of the longest-running and influential reality series of the past two decades, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Project Runway, which are both still going.
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