Blumhouse Television Bolsters Team

Blumhouse Television has added five new positions to expand its production, development and business affairs teams, including tapping former eOne exec Lisa Niedenthal as executive VP of production.

Niedenthal previously served as senior VP of production for film, TV and digital at Entertainment One (eOne), overseeing production on projects such as Sharp Objects, which Blumhouse Television co-produced. Niedenthal will oversee productions across all scripted and non-scripted programming.

Tevin Adelman is now VP of production, and Alexandra Perez is manager of production. Adelman was previously the VP of production at Dakota Pictures.

Anne Pedersen joins the company as senior VP of business affairs. Previously, Pedersen worked as a consultant for FremantleMedia North America, dealing with the negotiation and deals for scripted series. She was a consultant for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment and formerly held such roles as VP of business affairs at ABC Entertainment and VP of business affairs at International Creative Management.

The development team added Kyle Chalmers as VP of development and original programming and promoted Sahar Vahedi to director of development. Chalmers previously served as director of original scripted content at NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment before joining Blumhouse Television. He worked on shows such as Mr. Robot, Suits and the Suits spin-off Second City.

“2018 has been an incredible year for us, with series launches on HBO, Facebook Watch, USA Network, Hulu and Netflix and award-winning documentaries at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, plus docuseries in production at FX, Sundance and Oxygen, so staffing up has been a priority,” said Marci Wiseman, co-president of Blumhouse Television.

“We have been very fortunate to bring on such outstanding executives to fill critically important roles in production, development and business affairs,” added Jeremy Gold, co-president of Blumhouse Television.