Former Showtime Exec Amy Israel Reunites With David Nevins at North Street

Showtime’s Amy Israel has lined up her subsequent gig and it’s with a well-known face.

Israel has been employed as president of tv for the Peter Chernin-led content material studio North Street. She is going to report back to North Street CEO David Nevins, her former boss when the duo each labored collectively at Showtime.

In her new function, Showtime’s former head of scripted programming will broaden North Street’s TV slate and oversee all elements of scripted TV improvement and manufacturing for the corporate’s international portfolio. At North Street, Israel joins Chernin Leisure president Jenno Topping; Crimson Arrow Studios founder and North Street president Jan Frouman; Connor Schell, who heads Phrases + Footage; Kinetic Content material CEO Chris Coelen; and North Street CFO Darian Singer, in addition to Nevins, who joined in July after his personal long term at Showtime/Paramount.

“Amy is among the many greatest within the enterprise, the driving drive behind a protracted record of essentially the most impactful reveals in our time,” Nevins stated in an announcement Friday saying the hiring. “I do know first-hand the worth of her distinctive mixture of inventive management and producorial drive, and I’m absolutely assured she’s going to make a incredible addition to North Street’s management and the continued growth of our industry-leading content material portfolio.”

Israel stepped down from her function at Showtime in September after greater than a decade with the Paramount World-backed premium cable community for whom she developed hits together with Billions, Yellowjackets, The Curse and Fellow Vacationers. On the time, Israel grew to become the newest high-ranking Showtime government to depart after the cabler was folded underneath Chris McCarthy’s MTV Leisure Studios purview. McCarthy put in prime lieutenants Nina L. Diaz and Keith Cox to supervise Showtime. That prompted the exits of co-presidents of leisure Gary Levine and Jana Winograde, although the previous stays concerned on the community in an advisory function.

“It’s a thrill to affix Peter, David, Jenno and the remainder of the stellar government staff at North Street,” stated Israel. “Because the {industry} continues to evolve, I stay passionate in my advocacy for artists and defending their visions. I can’t wait to carry much more extraordinary storytellers, each established and rising, into the North Street fold, leveraging each its artist-friendly mannequin and the distinctive assets it affords inventive companions to create world-class tv.”

North Street is an impartial studio, which formally launched a yr in the past and consists of unscripted content material from Kinetic Content material (Love Is Blind), Left Proper Productions (The Circus) and 44 Blue (Wahlburgers), together with a global division centered on international acquisitions and co-productions. The corporate has greater than 85 productions within the works, together with Apple’s Chief of Struggle and documentaries about Barry Bonds and the New York Yankees, amongst others.