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Disney vet Alexandra Weinberger has joined Amazon MGM Studios in the newly created role of chief of YA and comedy ongoing series.
Three years ago, Amazon MGM Studios (then just Amazon Studios) organized its leadership team to focus on three areas: development, series, and IP and talent management. In her new position, Weinberger will head up a team that will take oversight of some of Amazon MGM Studios’ first-season YA and comedy shows — at Prime Video, the list of applicable upcoming titles includes “Cruel Intentions,” “We Were Liars,” “Motorheads,” “Off Campus,” “Every Year After,” “Overcompensating” and more — as they enter into their second seasons.
As head of YA and comedy series, Weinberger will report directly to Amazon MGM Studios head of co-prod television and ongoing series Laura Lancaster.
Popular on Variety Most recently, Weinberger was a producer and creative consultant on the Dear Media podcast “Coming in Hot.” Prior to that, she worked at Disney for 21 years in a variety of leadership roles across brands, including ABC Studios, where she was a senior executive in current programming and oversaw Shonda Rhimes-created series “Private Practice,” “Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Station 19,” as well as Greg Berlanti Productions’ “Brothers and Sisters,” “Dirty Sexy Money” and “Eli Stone.”
Previously, Weinberger led comedy series development and current at Touchstone Television, overseeing several then-current series, including “Scrubs” and “My Wife & Kids,” and before that was manager of series at ABC Entertainment where she had day-to-day oversight of shows including “Spin City,” “Dharma and Greg,” “Home Improvement” and “The Drew Carey Show.”
