MRC Names Jenna Santoianni President Of Television As Elise Henderson Exits
deadline.comFormer Paramount Television Studios executive Jenna Santoianni has joined MRC as President of Television. She will replace Elise Henderson who is leaving the company after a four-year stint.
The personnel change comes on the heels of Scott Tenley’s elevation to CEO as part of a new executive structure the studio announced last week, with co-founders Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu assuming the new roles of Chairmen. (Jonathan Golfman and Brye Adler continue as co-Presidents of Film and Amit Dey as Head of Non-Fiction.) This marks the first executive move by Tenley and comes amid a major TV ramp-up at the indie studio over the past few years under Henderson with such series as Peacock’s breakout hit Poker Face, Hulu’s The Great, Prime Video’s The Terminal List and a recently greenlit prequel, Apple TV+’s The Shrink Next Door, Shining Girls and Hello Tomorrow!.
The company also has a slew of high-profile projects in the pipeline. Santoianni exited as EVP Television Series and Head of Development for Paramount TV Studios as part of the November company restructuring and related layoffs, getting the news that her position was being eliminated as she was about to give birth.
During her close-to-four-year tenure at PtvS, Santoianni oversaw development and production of such series as Made for Love, Station Eleven, Joe Pickett, The Offer and the upcoming Fatal Attraction and Grease: The Rise of the Pink Ladies.
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