The integration of CBS and Paramount cable assets under George Cheeks, Chair of TV Media, continues. After BET Studios in December became a label of CBS Studios, the same is now being done with Nickelodeon Animation Studios, which also will function as a label within the David Stapf-run TV studio going forward.
With that, all production units in Cheeks’ expanded portfolio after the Skydance merger are now being consolidated into one, CBS Studios.
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Cheeks announced the restructuring in an internal memo, a copy of which was obtained by Deadline. In it, he announced Alec Botnick‘s appointment as President of Nickelodeon Animation Studios.
Ashley Kaplan, who had been co-running the animated studio with Botnick for the past four months, will become a consultant, working “on special projects through the end of the year.”
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