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EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal made a slew of changes to its executive ranks this week and there’s more to come.
Deadline understands that Sharon Vuong has been named the interim head of unscripted content in the competition and game show space following the departure of Corie Henson.
Vuong, who is EVP, Alternative Programming & Development, will lead the team that oversees series such as America’s Got Talent and The Voice. Henson was EVP, Unscripted Content, Competition and Game Shows, NBCUniversal Entertainment.
She will work closely with Rachel Smith, who is EVP, Unscripted Content, Lifestyle & Documentaries, who worked alongside Henson on the lifestyle and reality side of the business.
As one source told Deadline the easiest way to delineate the two teams is that the team that Vuong is now leading deals in cash prizes, where Smith’s team doesn’t (unless you count love as a prize).
Vuong joined NBC in May 2020. She has spearheaded development and current on unscripted formats including reality competition, talent competition, and game shows across NBCU’s Entertainment portfolio, which to date has included NBC, Peacock and the cable networks, although some of this will change with SpinCo taking on cable nets such as E! and USA Network.
She is also responsible for bringing in two of NBCU’s most successful streaming formats in The Traitors and Love Island. The Traitors, hosted by Alan Cumming, is currently in its third season and has already been renewed through season five. Love Island, meanwhile, aired its sixth season last summer and has a number of spinoffs.
The team also includes Jenny Ramirez, who is SVP, Entertainment Unscripted Alternative Programming, Shelby Shaftel, who is SVP, Unscripted Series and Development and Kristina Edwards, who is VP, Current Series and Development.
Vuong joined from CBS, where she was SVP, Alternative Programming and worked on series including Survivor, The Amazing Race, Big Brother and Undercover Boss.
