One of the most asked questions in the reality business in the last six months has been ‘Who is going to buy unscripted shows for Paramount+?’
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That question is slightly closer to being answered: Paramount+ has brought in former Netflix exec Damla Dogan on the unscripted side.
Deadline understands that Dogan is consulting for the company, reporting to Head of Originals Jane Wiseman.
An insider told Deadline that Dogan will be across unscripted development opportunities that arise “organically” and that it doesn’t signal a strategy shift at Paramount+, but it is clearly good news for producers looking to Paramount as a deep-pocketed buyer. Deadline hears that it has recently started buying a handful of non-fiction projects, some of the first since David Ellison’s Skydance took over the company.
Paramount+, under the leadership of Chair of Direct-to-Consumer Cindy Holland, is bringing together quite the collection of former Netflix execs with Wiseman and Dogan having also previously worked at the Love Is Blind streamer.
At Netflix, Dogan was Director of Unscripted Originals and spent six years at the company. She worked on series including Owning Manhattan, The Circle, Bling Empire, Buying Beverly Hills, Indian Matchmaking and Get Organized with The Home Edit as well as Nailed It! and Hack My Home. She also led Netflix’s first major live event, the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Before joining Netflix, Dogan was SVP, Development and Programming at E! Entertainment, where she spent 17 years and worked on titles such as Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian, Total Divas, Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry and Citizen Rose.
Dogan has form with Paramount, sort of. Between 2002 and 2007, she was director of development at VH1, which as then owned by Viacom, the company that eventually become part of Paramount.
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