{"id":6703,"date":"2016-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/alcon-entertainment-taps-former-nbc-drama-exec-for-tv-role\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:33:18","slug":"alcon-entertainment-taps-former-nbc-drama-exec-for-tv-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/alcon-entertainment-taps-former-nbc-drama-exec-for-tv-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcon Entertainment Taps Former NBC Drama Exec for TV Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Alcon Entertainment has hired Laura Lancaster, who previously served as executive VP of drama programming at NBC Entertainment, as president of its TV group.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster will report to Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. Alcon recently scored a second season order for its Syfy drama <em>The Expanse<\/em>, and the company also financed and produced the Alex Gibney doc <em>Frank Sinatra: All or Nothing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At NBC Entertainment, Lancaster was in charge of drama development and current programming for NBC and Universal Television Studio. She also previously served as senior VP of drama development at FOX, and was senior VP of drama and cable programming at NBC Universal Television Studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaura is a true talent; her impressive track record of profitable and creative shows speaks for itself, and we are excited for her to bring her vast expertise at Alcon,\u201d Johnson and Kosove said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a fan of Alcon\u2019s for many years, and have watched how Andrew and Broderick have created an extensive and diverse library of feature films with great admiration,\u201d said Lancaster. \u201cI feel fortunate to join the Television Group at such a remarkably productive\u00a0and\u00a0successful time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Alcon Entertainment has hired Laura Lancaster, who previously served as executive VP of drama programming at NBC Entertainment, as president of its TV group. Lancaster will report to Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. Alcon recently scored a second season order for its Syfy drama The Expanse, and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-alcon-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alcon Entertainment Taps Former NBC Drama Exec for TV Role<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alcon Entertainment Taps Former NBC Drama Exec for TV Role. 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