NBC Promotes Two Women to Lead Scripted Programming<br />Ms. Pakosta, who had previously been working at NBC’s corporate cousin, Universal Television,<br />helped develop NBC’s two biggest comedies at the moment, “The Good Place” and “Superstore.’<br />The two new executives join Paul Telegdy, the network’s reality television chief, in NBC’s entertainment leadership structure.<br />Before coming to NBC, Ms. Katz worked at Fox, where she helped develop “This Is Us” (Fox’s TV studio is the production house behind the current NBC hit)<br />and “Empire.” Those are the two biggest dramas in broadcast television in the last three years.<br />The network said on Thursday that Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta will become the co-presidents of scripted programming,<br />and both will report to the NBC Entertainment chairman, Robert Greenblatt.<br />Mr. Telegdy and Ms. Salke were Mr. Greenblatt’s key lieutenants in leading NBC’s surprising turnaround from a moribund network to No.
