{"id":11724,"date":"2017-02-07T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:37:14","slug":"vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson\/","title":{"rendered":"VP of Children\u2019s Entertainment in Place at Jim Henson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLYWOOD: The Jim Henson Company has appointed Sarah Maizes to the newly created position of VP of children&#8217;s entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>In her new role, Maizes will focus on the production of all preschool and children\u2019s programming for TV, home entertainment and digital media in animated and live-action formats. Maizes most recently served as a production executive on the company\u2019s new series for preschoolers,\u00a0<em>Dot.<\/em>, which is currently airing on Sprout. She will report to Halle Stanford, the company\u2019s executive VP of children&#8217;s entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Maizes is a seasoned entertainment development executive who has also written several award-winning books for both children and parents, including <em>On My Way to the Bath<\/em> and <em>On My Way to Bed<\/em>. Maizes is a regular parenting and lifestyle contributor to Today.com and has also written several non-fiction humor books. She began her career at William Morris and has also worked at Nelvana, KingWorld Animation and Mattel Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah brings her rich entertainment experience and deep understanding of kids and parents to her new role at Henson,\u201d said Stanford. \u201cShe has a truly authentic point of view as both a parent and a grown-up kid that will give a hilarious, honest touch to her work here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLYWOOD: The Jim Henson Company has appointed Sarah Maizes to the newly created position of VP of children&#8217;s entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":11725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-11724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-the-jim-henson-company","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VP of Children\u2019s Entertainment in Place at Jim Henson - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VP of Children\u2019s Entertainment in Place at Jim Henson - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HOLLYWOOD: The Jim Henson Company has appointed Sarah Maizes to the newly created position of VP of children&#039;s entertainment.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-07T16:31:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-02-08T13:37:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/09\/SarahMaizes-JimHensonCo-217.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson\/\",\"name\":\"VP of Children\u2019s Entertainment in Place at Jim Henson - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-07T16:31:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-08T13:37:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/vp-of-childrens-entertainment-in-place-at-jim-henson\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"VP of Children\u2019s Entertainment in Place at Jim Henson\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. 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