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Exclusive: Marc Barson has been upped at Blumouse Television.

Barson, who was SVP, Business and Legal Affairs and Co-Head of Business and Legal Affairs at The Thing About Pam producer, has been promoted to EVP and Head of Business and Legal Affairs. He was previously co-head with Anne Pedersen, who departed the company last year.

Reporting to Blumhouse Television President Chris McCumber, he will oversee all business and legal affairs for the television arm for the company, leading a team that is expected to double in size over the next year.

He has been involved in deals for series including Renee Zellweger’s The Thing About Pam, which just launched on NBC, The Horror of Dolores Roach starring Justina Machado for Amazon and development projects such as Later, based on the Stephen King novel, created by Raelle Tucker with Lucy Liu attached to star, WWE’s first scripted series The United States vs.

Blumhouse Television has expanded its production, development and business affairs teams, adding five new positions to accommodate its growing slate. With 15 projects in various stages of production, the company has hired Lisa Niedenthal as Executive Vice President of Production, Tevin Adelman as VP of Production, and Alexandra Perez as Manager of Production. Niedenthal will oversee productions across all scripted and non-scripted programming. In addition, Anne Pedersen joins as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs. The development team also added Kyle Chalmers as VP of Development and Original Programming and promoted Sahar Vahedi to Director of Development.

“2018 has been an incredible year for us, with series launches on HBO, Facebook Watch, USA Network, Hulu and Netflix and award-winning documentaries at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, plus docuseries in production at FX, Sundance and Oxygen, so staffing up has been a priority,” said Marci Wiseman co-president Blumhouse Television. “We have been...

Blumhouse Television has added five new positions to its production, development and business affairs teams, including bringing on Entertainment One vet Lisa Niedenthal as executive vice president.

Niedenthal will lead the company’s physical production team, which has also added Tevin Adelman as vice president and Alexandra Perez as manager. She will oversee productions across all scripted and non-scripted programming, including “The Purge” series at USA and the Hulu anthology “Into the Dark.”

The company has also added Anne Pedersen as senior vice president of business affairs, Kyle Chalmers as vice president of development and original programming, and promoted Sahar Vahedi to director of development.

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“2018 has been an incredible year for us, with series launches on HBO, Facebook Watch, USA Network, Hulu and Netflix and award-winning documentaries at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, plus docuseries in production at FX,...

Blumhouse Television has added five new positions, to expand its production, development and business affairs teams, Variety has learned exclusively.

The new hires are: Lisa Niedenthal as executive vice president of production; Tevin Adelman as vice president of production; Alexandra Reed as manager of production ;Anne Pedersen as senior vice president of business affairs; and Kyle Chalmers as vice president of development and original programming. In addition, Sahar Vahedi has been promoted to director of development.

“2018 has been an incredible year for us, with series launches on HBO, Facebook Watch, USA Network, Hulu and Netflix and award-winning documentaries at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, plus docuseries in production at FX, Sundance and Oxygen, so staffing up has been a priority,” said Marci Wiseman, co-president Blumhouse Television.

“We have been very fortunate to bring on such outstanding executives to fill critically important roles in production, development and business affairs,” added Jeremy Gold,...