EXCLUSIVE: Christie McConnell has been appointed to the function of SVP, Growth on the Emmy-winning leisure firm, Bungalow Media + Leisure, and can now oversee growth on all of its unscripted programming.
McConnell involves the corporate after performing as a contract marketing consultant to such TV manufacturing firms and podcast studios as Boardwalk Photos, Salt Audio, Made Up Tales and Wild State. She’s most lately developed such collection because the Jeremy Renner-fronted Rennervations (Disney+) and Undressed with Kathryn Eisman (Paramount+), additionally directing and producing each audio and video content material for Headspace.
McConnell has additionally beforehand held govt roles at All3 Media America, Shine America and Stephen David Leisure, the place she targeted on competitors and recreation exhibits, docuseries, occasion collection and true crime, moreover overseeing unscripted growth for broadcast, cable, and OTT providers at Radley Studios. Previous to becoming a member of Radley, she served as showrunner for the Nashville stay after-show, Nashchat. McConnell additionally developed, govt produced, and directed/produced behind-the-scenes content material that includes Reese Witherspoon for the Oscar winner’s media firm, Whats up Sunshine.
Mentioned Bungalow CEO Robert Friedman of McConnell’s appointment, “Her huge expertise in all genres of TV and digital growth, mixed together with her background at quite a lot of manufacturing firms, makes her a perfect addition to our rising Bungalow group.”
Added McConnell in an announcement to Deadline, “I’m excited and proud to hitch the Bungalow group, particularly attending to work alongside people who find themselves really obsessed with making nice content material. Being a part of an organization identified for its creativity and high quality in a aggressive tv panorama is such an honor.”
McConnell started her profession in growth at Metropolis Lights Media, the place she shortly rose by the ranks to supervise growth for such digital and branded leisure shoppers as ABC Household, Barnes & Noble, Glamour, Lifetime, WEtv and Comedy Central. She has additionally offered initiatives to Disney+, CBS, Fox, YouTube, Netflix, A&E, Oxygen, Historical past, Discovery, ID, TLC, WEtv, Journey Channel, Bravo, Comedy Central and CNBC. Her growth and manufacturing credit embrace the New York Emmy-winning digital collection, E book Obsessed, the Webby-nominated Sizzling Espresso Break and The Checklist, Historical past Channel’s Emmy winner The Males Who Constructed America and its Emmy-nominated collection The World Wars, Discovery’s Shark Tank Meets Shark Week, Tiger Shark Invasion and Gold Fever, truTV’s Faux Off, Fox’s Riot, YouTube’s Try, TLC’s Excessive Cheapskates, AMC’s The American West and ID’s Redrum.
Based by Friedman in in 2013, Bungalow’s lately produced initiatives embrace the Sundance-premiering documentary Little Richard: I Am Every thing for CNN Movies/HBO Max, the collection Serving the Hamptons for Discovery+, the four-part miniseries Surviving Jeffrey Epstein for Lifetime, The Preppy Homicide: Loss of life in Central Park for AMC/SundanceTV, The Panama Papers for Epix, and Roswell: The First Witness for Historical past Channel.
Extra credit embrace the Daytime Emmy-winning Give for NBC, Corvette Heroes for Historical past Channel, The Actual SVU for Lifetime, Landmarks Stay in Live performance for PBS, 36 Hours with the New York Occasions for Journey Channel, and such scripted dramas as APB for Fox, Insatiable for Netflix and Trendy Love for Prime Video. Bungalow has additionally produced characteristic docs like The Satan Made Me Do It for Discovery+, Spring Broke on Showtime, and We the Folks: The Market Basket Impact, in addition to the Clive Owen movie The Affirmation and different initiatives.
