EXCLUSIVE: Christie McConnell has been appointed to the function of SVP, Development on the Emmy-winning leisure firm, Bungalow Media + Entertainment, and can now oversee improvement on all of its unscripted programming.

McConnell involves the corporate after performing as a contract advisor to such TV manufacturing corporations and podcast studios as Boardwalk Pictures, Salt Audio, Made Up Stories and Wild State. She’s most just lately developed such collection because the Jeremy Renner-fronted Rennervations (Disney+) and Undressed with Kathryn Eisman (Paramount+), additionally directing and producing each audio and video content material for Headspace.

McConnell has additionally beforehand held government roles at All3 Media America, Shine America and Stephen David Entertainment, the place she centered on competitors and sport reveals, docuseries, occasion collection and true crime, moreover overseeing unscripted improvement for broadcast, cable, and OTT companies at Radley Studios. Prior to becoming a member of Radley, she served as showrunner for the Nashville dwell after-show, Nashchat. McConnell additionally developed, government produced, and directed/produced behind-the-scenes content material that includes Reese Witherspoon for the Oscar winner’s media firm, Hello Sunshine.

Said Bungalow CEO Robert Friedman of McConnell’s appointment, “Her vast experience in all genres of TV and digital development, combined with her background at a variety of production companies, makes her an ideal addition to our growing Bungalow team.”

Added McConnell in a press release to Deadline, “I am excited and proud to join the Bungalow team, especially getting to work alongside people who are truly passionate about making great content. Being part of a company known for its creativity and quality in a competitive television landscape is such an honor.”

McConnell started her profession in improvement at City Lights Media, the place she shortly rose by means of the ranks to supervise improvement for such digital and branded leisure purchasers as ABC Family, Barnes & Noble, Glamour, Lifetime, WEtv and Comedy Central. She has additionally bought tasks to Disney+, CBS, Fox, YouTube, Netflix, A&E, Oxygen, History, Discovery, ID, TLC, WEtv, Travel Channel, Bravo, Comedy Central and CNBC. Her improvement and manufacturing credit embrace the New York Emmy-winning digital collection, Book Obsessed, the Webby-nominated Hot Coffee Break and The List, History Channel’s Emmy winner The Men Who Built America and its Emmy-nominated collection The World Wars, Discovery’s Shark Tank Meets Shark Week, Tiger Shark Invasion and Gold Fever, truTV’s Fake Off, Fox’s Riot, YouTube’s Strive, TLC’s Extreme Cheapskates, AMC’s The American West and ID’s Redrum.

Founded by Friedman in in 2013, Bungalow’s just lately produced tasks embrace the Sundance-premiering documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything for CNN Films/HBO Max, the collection Serving the Hamptons for Discovery+, the four-part miniseries Surviving Jeffrey Epstein for Lifetime, The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park for AMC/SundanceTV, The Panama Papers for Epix, and Roswell: The First Witness for History Channel.

Additional credit embrace the Daytime Emmy-winning Give for NBC, Corvette Heroes for History Channel, The Real SVU for Lifetime, Landmarks Live in Concert for PBS, 36 Hours with the New York Times for Travel Channel, and such scripted dramas as APB for Fox, Insatiable for Netflix and Modern Love for Prime Video. Bungalow has additionally produced characteristic docs like The Devil Made Me Do It for Discovery+, Spring Broke on Showtime, and We the People: The Market Basket Effect, in addition to the Clive Owen movie The Confirmation and different tasks.