EXCLUSIVE: Macro Tv Studios is bolstering its government ranks, naming Jordanna Guarino SVP, Scripted Tv and Jean Shi SVP, Unscripted Tv.
Guarino joins Macro from Blumhouse Tv the place she served as Senior Vice President of Improvement & Programming. Whereas there, she managed artistic for scripted sequence and streaming motion pictures. She served as a co-executive producer on Amazon’s The Horror of Dolores Roach, Hulu’s Into the Darkish and a slate of eight motion pictures for MGM+. She was additionally the artistic government on Season 2 of Fb Watch’s Sacred Lies. Previous to Blumhouse, she served as Director of Unique Programming at Marvel Tv the place she was a co-producer on the second season of The Gifted for Fox. She additionally helped oversee the ultimate seasons of Marvel’s Daredevil for Netflix and Legion for FX.
Beforehand, Guarino labored at Common Content material Productions the place she developed Syfy’s Channel Zero. She has additionally labored at USA Community and ABC Community and started her profession as an agent trainee at ICM Companions.
Previously SVP of Unscripted Improvement & Programming at Fremantle North America, Shi developed, offered and produced initiatives with networks and streaming platforms together with authentic ideas—E!’s Comparatively Well-known, Hulu’s Wayne Brady: The Household Remix and HBO Max’s About Final Evening; in addition to contributed to the event of worldwide codecs and legacy IP sequence together with Fox’s Sport of Abilities, NBC’s Password and ABC’s Press Your Luck. She beforehand served as Vice President of Improvement & Programming at NBCUniversal’s Oxygen Media the place she oversaw each life-style and crime codecs together with Douglas Household Gold, Strut, Battle of the Ex-Besties, The Jury Speaks and The Disappearance of Natalie Holloway.
Shi additionally spent three years as Vice President of Improvement at the Emmy-winning Intervention actuality sequence producer GRB Studios the place she offered and was an government producer of a number of sequence together with #Purple Flag for CNN, Pregnant & Relationship for WeTV, Intercourse Despatched me to the ER for TLC and Fame within the Household for E!. Shi started her tv profession as an unbiased producer with credit on sequence throughout networks together with Bravo, Discovery, Fox and A&E, amongst others.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Jordanna and Jean to our staff,” mentioned Jamila Hunter, Macro Tv Studios President. “Jordanna’s monitor report of growing and producing an array of distinctive sequence for broadcast networks, cable and streamers makes her an ideal match for our scripted staff. Equally, Jean’s distinctive expertise as each a community government and a producer of content material throughout a number of genres is precisely what we have to increase our footprint within the unscripted area.”
Macro TV Studios subsequent sequence, Authorities Cheese for Apple TV+, stars David Oyelowo and is in post-production. The studio additionally government produced two critically-acclaimed scripted Netflix sequence — Elevating Dion and Gentefied in addition to docu-series Pricey Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur. The studio additionally government produced The Subsequent Black Millionaires docuseries for The Roku Channel.
