Reilly set to exit NBC
Source: Hollywood Reporter
29 May 2007
Author: Nellie Andreeva
NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly is leaving the network, sources said, three years after he was named to the job and three months after signing a new multiyear deal with NBC.
Reilly's decision to step down, which appears imminent, is said to have been triggered by NBC Universal's decision to pursue investing in Ben Silverman's successful production company, Reveille, and recruiting Silverman at the network in a top executive position.
Such a scenario seemed to interfere with NBC's previous plan to consolidate development at the network and sibling NBC Universal TV Studio under executive vp Katherine Pope, prompting Pope to also consider a departure from the network, sources said.
With NBC Uni TV Studio president Angela Bromstad close to leaving her post, probably for another position within NBC Universal, the departure of Reilly and his No. 2, Pope, would leave NBC without its three top development executives.
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