Telepictures Taps Donna Redier Linsk As EVP

Telepictures today named Donna Redier Linsk as its new EVP, business operations and programming.

In this newly created position, Redier Linsk will serve as Telepictures’ top business executive. She will be responsible for all finance, business and legal affairs, production, operations, administration and current programming matters related to the company’s original television series and digital content. She will also manage Telepictures’ business and operational staff.

As Redier Linsk arrives at Telepictures, the company is currently producing eight series for the 2013–14 television season — The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Bethenny, TMZ, TMZ Live, Extra, Judge Mathis, The People’s Court and Let’s Ask America — and talk show The Real will launch in national syndication in fall 2014.

Prior to joining Warner Bros., Redier Linsk had been COO of FremantleMedia North America, the U.S. production division of global media giant FremantleMedia, from 2009 to 2013. 2004–2009, Redier Linsk worked with Darnell at Fox Broadcasting Co., serving as SVP, business affairs and alternative production. Redier Linsk oversaw business and legal affairs for alternative programming at Fox Television Studios from 1999 to 2004, and prior to joining Fox, Redier Linsk worked in entertainment business affairs and creative development for Gaumont Television.

She is an honors graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and she earned her juris doctor degree from Hastings College of the Law at the University of California, San Francisco.