Steve Kent Exits As Senior EVP Of Programming At Sony Pictures TV, Will Continue To Oversee ‘The Young And The Restless’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Veteran Sony Pictures Television (SPT) executive Steve Kent is leaving his role to focus solely on The Young and the Restless.
An SPT spokesman confirmed to Deadline that Kent will no longer be Senior EVP of Programming but will become executive in charge of production on CBS’ 50-year-old daytime soap.
He has been overseeing daytime dramas The Young And The Restless and Days of Our Lives since 2007, along with being in charge of development and production of original local language productions such as Outlander, Nikola and As If as well as scripted and unscripted formats like Dragons’ Den.
SPT’s Senior EVP Programming role is being eliminated and Kent’s responsibilities will be covered by other members of the SPT production team going forward, we are told.
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