ABC Signature President Jonnie Davis Exiting – Deadline

Jonnie Davis is leaving ABC Signature.

Davis has been President of the Disney-owned studio since 2019.

He mentioned it has been a “privilege” to work on exhibits akin to ABC’s Gray’s Anatomy, FX’s Fleishman Is In Bother and Hulu’s This Idiot.

The transfer, nonetheless, isn’t a precursor to merging ABC Signature and twentieth Tv and, regardless of a mess of rumors, they are going to proceed to function as two separate division. The corporate is at present looking for a alternative for Davis.

Davis took over the function of President of ABC Studios in July 2019, 4 months after Disney’s $71.3B of key Fox property and the departure of then-President Patrick Moran.

He has overseen the corporate, which makes ABC’s The Good Physician, The Rookie and Station 19, Onyx Collective’s Affordable Doubt and UnPrisoned, Apple’s 5 Days at Memorial and Unhealthy Sisters and Paramount+’s Prison Minds: Evolution.

The corporate can be behind Amazon’s The Wilds, Hulu’s Little Fires In every single place and Tiny Stunning Issues, MGM+’s Godfather of Harlem, ABC’s The Rookie: Feds, and Nat Geo’s A Small Mild.

The studios has offers with the likes of Alec Berg, Kerry Washington, Liz Tigelaar, Drew Goddard, Tony McNamara, Yara Shahidi, Natasha Rothwell, Phoebe Robinson, Bruce Miller, John Ridley and Tracee Ellis Ross.

Earlier than changing into President of ABC Signature, Davis was President, Inventive Affairs of twentieth Century Fox Tv (now twentieth Tv). He joined in 2008 as SVP, Comedy Improvement. He helped develop exhibits akin to NBC’s This Is Us and ABC’s Fashionable Household in addition to its enlargement into animation with Photo voltaic Opposites and Central Park.

Previous to that he was VP, Comedy Improvement at Fox, having began in unscripted with exhibits akin to The Easy Life, Joe Millionaire and American Idol.

Notice From Eric Schrier, President, Disney TV Studios and International Authentic TV Technique:

Workforce,

Jonnie Davis has made the choice to step down from his function as president of ABC Signature. Not solely has Jonnie been an extremely valued colleague, he has additionally served as a implausible inventive accomplice, collaborator and buddy to so many. Jonnie is an distinctive particular person, and his unwavering assist and optimistic vitality will proceed to encourage us. I hope you’ll all be part of me in expressing our gratitude to Jonnie for all of his contributions to ABC Signature and in wishing him continued success.

Whereas information like that is by no means simple, I’m very assured within the management crew we have now in place, and I’m excited to work with them extra intently till subsequent steps are decided. 

Please be at liberty to achieve out to me with any questions or if there’s something you want.

Finest,

Eric

Notice From Jonnie Davis:

Hello everybody, 

I needed to share that I’ve made the choice to step down from my function as president of ABC Signature. It has been a privilege to work alongside all of you to ship a few of the most acclaimed and celebrated exhibits, like ABC’s “Gray’s Anatomy,” FX’s “Fleishman is in Bother” and Hulu’s “This Idiot,” to call only a few, that captivate, encourage and mirror the audiences that we so proudly serve day by day. I’m eternally grateful to Dana Walden and Eric Schrier for the fantastic alternative to guide this world-class studio. And whereas I’ll, in fact, miss this excellent crew, after doing this job for over 20 years, I’m trying ahead to determining my subsequent inventive problem.

As I start to mirror on my time right here, I can’t take into consideration our many successes with out picturing folks such as you, who ship the fervour and dedication that drives our enterprise. Every of you’ve gotten performed a job in making my expertise at ABC Signature really memorable and I shall be cheering on the whole Disney Tv Studios group as you cost ahead.

With thanks and gratitude,

Jonnie