Exclusive: Change is coming at NBCUniversal.
As the company prepares for a wide-ranging restructuring across its television business, Deadline understands that unscripted boss Corey Henson will be leaving the company.
Henson served as Executive Vice President of Unscripted Content, Game Shows and Games at NBCUniversal Entertainment, overseeing such series as NBC staples such as America's got talent and Sound As well as peacock strokes Traitors and Love Island. NBCUniversal declined to comment.
Henson, a popular figure in the unscripted community who joined NBCU in 2022, is leaving as Donna Langley makes her mark on the TV side of the business.
Tomorrow, Langley, chairman of NBCUniversal Studios & Entertainment, is expected to reveal that Berlina Igbokwe, who is currently chairman of Universal Studio Group, will take over NBC — one of the worst-kept secrets in television over the past six years. Months. NBCUniversal Entertainment Chairman Frances Berwick is expected to move into a new role that includes overseeing Bravo — the network where she made her name — and reality programming.
Over the past two and a half years, Henson has overseen reality competition, talent competition and game show formats across NBCU's entertainment portfolio, including NBC, Bravo, E! And Oxygen True Crime, Syfy, USA Network and Peacock.
However, Comcast, which owns NBCU, recently announced that several of those networks — E! , Oxygen True Crime, Syfy and USA Network – will now fall under a new company known as SpinCo.
Henson's big win at NBC was Deal or no deal islanda new spin on the classic game show that just returned for a second season after strong ratings for its first season. It is also lit in green Destination Xa new major adventure format expected to launch later this year and is likely to be the first of a number of interesting international co-productions and deals.
Before NBCU, Henson worked at Warner Bros. Television. Discovery and Fox. She was previously Executive Vice President and President of Unscripted for TBS, TNT and truTV before deciding to leave after Warner Bros.' Merger with Discovery. There, she supervised series such as film reboots Wipe out, the big show and The cube Besides Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Housesthe Warner Bros.-produced competition series fronted by Helen Mirren that performed well for TBS and Cartoon Network.
Before Turner, she was vice president of alternative entertainment at Fox and before that she was executive vice president of Unscripted Television at Electus and vice president of alternative series at ABC Entertainment.
