CBS ‘Amy Reisenbach, David Stapf Drawing new three -year contracts
Two important leaders at CBS remain in place, where Amy Reisenbach and David Stapf sign new three -year deals with the company.
With the signing sessions, Reisenbach remains as president of CBS Entertainment, while Stepf continues with CBS Studios. Reisenbach has been head of CBS Entertainment since November 2022 and started for the first time at CBS in 2005, while Stapf has been leading CBS studios at the company for 26 years.
Both Stapf and Reisenbach continue to report to George Cheeks, chairman of TV Media for Paramount, who supervises all CBS divisions and the cable networks. According to a person with knowledge of the situation, both managers have re-activated their contracts prior to the closure of the merger of the Skydance Paramount.
The new contracts are a sign of stability at CBS, while many other divisions within Paramount have recently been subject to several rounds of dismissals. The new Leadership Regime of Skydance is expected to announce between 2,000-3,000 dismissals at the beginning of November.
When Variety Earlier reported, Paramount Insiders were hopeful that David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, a “Don’t Fix that would not be broken” approach from CBS, given the continuous success of the division under Reisenbach and Stapf.
CBS remains some of the most viewed script series in the entire TV appointments, including “Tracker”, “Fire Country”, “NCIS”, “Matlock”, “FBI”, “Ghosts” and “Georgie & Mandy’s first marriage”, as well as reality-stable “and” The Amazing Race “and the amazing race. In the meantime, Stapf continues to enjoy a strong reputation in the creative community, in which CBS studios produce the vast majority of the CBS broadcasting. CBS Studios also serves as the home base of the ‘Star Trek’ universe of Series that have been produced for Paramount+ since 2017, as well as the reboot ‘Little House on the prairie’ in the making for Netflix and the comedy series ‘Murderbot’, which was bent for a second season in May.
Deadline first reported the contract innovations.
