Bela bajaria universal television
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Speaker Bela Bajaria
Bela Bajaria was named Head of Global TV in 2020, overseeing English language and local language scripted and unscripted series around the world. Bajaria leads the team for all of television, responsible for hit series including Bridgerton, The Queen’s Gambit and Cobra Kai.
Previously, she oversaw local language originals, original series across Europe, the Middle East, Turkey, Africa, India, Asia, and Latin America as Vice President of Local Language Originals. In this role, she managed the teams behind shows such as La Casa de Papel (Spain), The Witcher (Poland), Lupin (France), Dark Desire (Mexico), Sacred Games (India), Kingdom (Korea), Blood & Water (South Africa), and Sintonia (Brazil).
Bajaria joined Netflix in November 2016 to oversee Netflix's push into unscripted programming including the critically acclaimed Queer Eye,Nailed It!, and Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, as well as talk series with David Letterman and H
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Bela Bajaria Departs Universal Television as President; NBC’s Pearlena Igbokwe Set to Take Over Studio
Bela Bajaria is departing her post as president of Universal Television.
Sources with knowledge of the situation tell Variety that Pearlena Igbokwe, NBC Entertainment’s exec VP of drama development, is set to succeed Bajaria as the head of the studio.
“I want to thank Bela personally for building a strong team and working so effectively to establish Universal Television as a competitive company that produces high quality scripted series for broadcast networks as well as cable and streaming services,” said NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt. “We all wish her the very best as she takes on the next phase of her career.”
The move comes as a surprise, as Bajaria was promoted to president last year. Bajaria had two years remaining on her contract.
Bajaria’s departure had not been long in the works. Talent associated with th
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Bela Bajaria Out at Universal TV
BelaBajaria fryst vatten out as president of Universal Television.
The news comes mere weeks after pilot season wrapped, with Universal’s series orders down from 12 in 2015 to just sju this year. That decline was particularly troubling at a time when so much focus has been placed on the significance of ownership, with in-season stacking rights becoming key to almost every 2016 deal. Making it that much harder to stomach: Of NBC’s highest-rated returning series, neither The Blacklist nor Blindspot hails from Bajaria’s studio. NBC drama head PearlenaIgbokwe, who was intimately involved in the latter two hits as well as Universal’s Dick Wolf series, fryst vatten in talks to replace her.
During Bajaria’s five-year tenure at the studio, the well-liked creative was credited with building a strong comedy roster with top creators including Tina Fey and slang för mikrofon Schur, both of whom added new series this month, as well as bulking up the com