SorcererMickey
December 8th, 2004, 19:55
The Jim Henson Company Announces New Structure of Television Department
Wednesday December 8, 8:04 am ET
New Hires Eric Poticha and Halle Stanford to Lead Next Chapter of JHC Television Development
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jim Henson Company has hired Eric Poticha as Vice President of Television and Halle Stanford as Head of Children's Television, continuing its strategic objective of increasing its network and cable programming portfolio. The announcement was made today by Lisa Henson, Co-CEO (with Brian Henson) of The Jim Henson Company, to whom both will report. Poticha is charged with developing new comedy and drama series, miniseries and features for television as well as develop future Muppet projects to be produced by Henson for The Walt Disney Company. Stanford will lead the company's development and production of all preschool and children's programming for both television and direct-to-video projects in animated and live-action formats. She will also work closely with HIT Entertainment on pre-school programming for the co-production agreement recently announced by the two companies.
Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041208/law028_1.html
Wednesday December 8, 8:04 am ET
New Hires Eric Poticha and Halle Stanford to Lead Next Chapter of JHC Television Development
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jim Henson Company has hired Eric Poticha as Vice President of Television and Halle Stanford as Head of Children's Television, continuing its strategic objective of increasing its network and cable programming portfolio. The announcement was made today by Lisa Henson, Co-CEO (with Brian Henson) of The Jim Henson Company, to whom both will report. Poticha is charged with developing new comedy and drama series, miniseries and features for television as well as develop future Muppet projects to be produced by Henson for The Walt Disney Company. Stanford will lead the company's development and production of all preschool and children's programming for both television and direct-to-video projects in animated and live-action formats. She will also work closely with HIT Entertainment on pre-school programming for the co-production agreement recently announced by the two companies.
Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041208/law028_1.html