Robert Greenblatt

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Robert Greenblatt
Born1959/1960 (age 59-60) [1]
Rockford, Illinois, USA
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin
University of Illinois
Boylan Catholic High School [2]
Occupation Television executive
Notable work 9 to 5
Television The Voice
Parenthood
Chicago Fire
Awards Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television Drama

Robert Greenblatt (born 1959/1960) is an American television executive, former Chairman of NBC Entertainment [3] [4] [5] and former Chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment. He has since launched his production company, The Green Room. [6]

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Early life and education

Greenblatt was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, USA. [1] He was raised Catholic and attended Boylan Catholic High School. [7] [2] He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre management from the University of Illinois and a Master of Arts in arts administration from the University of Wisconsin's Madison School of Business. He also earned a Master of Fine Arts from the USC School of Cinema-Television's Peter Stark Producing Program. [4]

Career

Greenblatt began his television career at the Fox Broadcasting Company, where he ran prime-time programming and developed such shows as the original Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place , The X-Files , and Party of Five . [3] [4]

From 1997 to 2003, Greenblatt was a producer (along with David Janollari through their production company, The Greenblatt Janollari Studio) of over a dozen series for various networks, including Six Feet Under , along with the 2005 miniseries Elvis and Gregory Nava's American Family for PBS. [3] [4]

From 2003 to 2010, Greenblatt was President of Entertainment for Showtime. [8] He supervised a slate of original programming that dramatically repositioned the pay channel as a leader in the premium cable business. Under his leadership, he developed and supervised award-winning shows like Weeds , Dexter , Californication , The Tudors , Nurse Jackie , and United States of Tara . [3] [4]

As a theatrical producer, Greenblatt developed the musical stage adaptation of 9 to 5 , which premiered on Broadway in April 2009 and closed September 2009, with the National Tour starting in September 2010. It was nominated for four Tony Awards. [3] [4]

Greenblatt was the chairman of NBC Entertainment. He succeeded Jeff Gaspin in January 2011 after Comcast took control of the newly renamed NBCUniversal. [3] [9]

On March 4, 2019, Greenblatt was named as the chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment as part of AT&T's reorganization of WarnerMedia. He oversaw HBO, Cinemax, TBS, TNT and TruTV. [10] He was responsible for helping oversee the development of HBO Max, the company's streaming service which launched in May 2020. [11] He was fired from WarnerMedia in August 2020 amid restructuring. [12] [13] More recently, he launched his own production company with a deal at Lionsgate. [14]

Politics

In August 2016, Greenblatt labeled then presidential candidate Donald Trump as "toxic" and "demented". [15]

Personal life

Greenblatt is the first and only openly gay broadcast TV president. [16]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Baum, Geraldine (30 April 2009). "TV Exec Turns Back the Clock to Stage '9 to 5'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
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  5. ↑ Schechner, Sam (13 July 2011). "NBC Names Jennifer Salke New Entertainment President". Wall Street Journal.
  6. ↑ "Comcast/NBC fired and insulted Trump and now faces a grudge-holding president". Variety. August 17, 2021.
  7. ↑ "NBC's Greenblatt rebuilds network long in disarray". WWSB. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved January 4, 2013. Greenblatt boils down his background this way: a gay, Catholic kid with a Jewish last name who grew up in rural Rockford, Ill.
  8. ↑ Stelter, Brian (25 June 2010). "Showtime's President Is Said to Be Stepping Down". New York Times.
  9. ↑ Carter, Bill (21 November 2010). "Comcast's Plans for Executives Offer Clues to Future of NBC". New York Times.
  10. ↑ Flint, Joe (4 March 2019). "AT&T considers combining HBO, Turner units, adding Robert Greenblatt". MarketWatch.
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  13. ↑ Smith, Ben (2020-08-16). "The Week Old Hollywood Finally, Actually Died". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  14. ↑ Baysinger, Tim (2021-08-17). "Bob Greenblatt Launches Production Company, Sets First-Look Deal With Lionsgate". TheWrap. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  15. ↑ "Comcast/NBC fired and insulted Trump and now faces a grudge-holding president". The Philadelphia Inquirer. January 13, 2017.
  16. ↑ Jensen, Michael (7 April 2011). "Interview: Robert Greenblatt Says His Being First Gay Broadcast TV President is No Big Deal. We Beg to Differ!". AfterElton.com.
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