Disney has formalized the promotion of ABC Signature EVP Production and Post-Production Carol Turner, formally naming her head of Production for Disney Entertainment Television.

Turner assumed the position final spring as a part of the consolidation of production operations throughout Disney TV Studios, Hulu, Freeform and FX beneath her within the wave of layoffs on the firm, with then-Twentieth Television EVP Production Nissa Diederich and FX EVP of Production Nick Lombardo reporting to her.

That position has since been additional expanded and formalized, with Turner now overseeing bodily manufacturing and backlot features for each the studios and platforms together with Twentieth Television, ABC Signature, ABC Entertainment, FX Productions, Disney+, Hulu, Freeform and Onyx Collective, with a purview of over 100 present sequence and pilots.

ABC Signature’s John Ziffren has been promoted to EVP of Production and Post-Production, assuming Turner’s earlier tasks. He studies to her as do Lombardo in addition to the yet-to-be-named substitute for Diederich who departed in December.

“Carol is a proven leader with the unique ability to deftly navigate production challenges and support the creative vision of our creators,” stated Eric Schrier, President of Disney Television Studios and Global Original Television Strategy, to whom Tuner will report. “Just a few months into her new role, she has already made a major impact in how we manage our productions across Disney Entertainment Television.”

Turner’s purview of Disney Entertainment Television exhibits contains 9-1-1 (ABC), Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), High Potential (ABC) and Only Murders within the Building (Hulu), in addition to the upcoming sequence American Sports Story (FX), Tracker (CBS) and lots of others.

Prior to becoming a member of ABC Signature in 2020, Turner was EVP of Physical Production at Skydance; the primary director of Production for International Originals at Netflix; and SVP of Production and VP of Production, overseeing Scripted and Unscripted Series at BBC Worldwide Production. Turner has been in manufacturing since 1995 in TV, movie, unscripted and scripted content material, working her method up from manufacturing assistant to line producer earlier than transitioning to the company aspect in 2011.

Ziffren joined ABC Signature in 2015. Prior to that, he developed pilots and sequence at Twentieth Century Fox TV adopted by eight years at ABC Family (now Freeform), as govt producer and VP of Production. As a manufacturing govt and an unbiased producer, he has been concerned with the manufacturing for greater than 1,500 episodes of tv. Ziffren started his profession at Spelling/Goldberg Prods., earlier than becoming a member of Brillstein-Grey and serving as a producer for The Larry Sanders Show.