Endemol Shine North America has named Sharon Levy, who spent the last 12 years at Spike TV, as president of unscripted and scripted television.<\/p>\n
Levy was most recently executive VP of original series for Spike. In addition to unscripted programming, Levy led Spike\u2019s charge into scripted series with such titles as Tut<\/em>, starring Sir Ben Kingsley; The Mist<\/em>, based on a novella by Stephen King and the upcoming Waco<\/em> from The Weinstein Company. She also established a push into documentaries at the network.<\/p>\n \u201cSharon is one of our industry\u2019s most well-respected executives and brings with her a tremendous amount of experience developing and producing hits across a wide array of genres,\u201d said Cris Abrego, the chairman of Endemol Shine Americas and CEO of Endemol Shine North America. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have her joining our team here at Endemol Shine and leading our programming efforts going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m truly excited to be returning to my producing roots and doing so with a company like Endemol Shine\u2014with its global reach and roster of critically acclaimed series and production companies,\u201d added Levy. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of momentum across the unscripted and scripted divisions and I can\u2019t wait to get started with the incredible team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Endemol Shine North America has named Sharon Levy, who spent the last 12 years at Spike TV, as president of unscripted and scripted television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":8188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[365,1467],"class_list":["post-8187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-endemol-shine-north-america","tag-sharon-levy"],"yoast_head":"\n