Belisa Balaban & Tiffany Faigus Exit As Disney Merges ABC & Hulu Unscripted Programming Teams Following Layoffs

Exclusive: The details of Disney’s Entertainment Television’s latest round of layoffs are starting to emerge.
Deadline understands that the company is combining the unscripted teams at ABC Entertainment and Hulu. The move was made by Rob Mills, EVP Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment at Walt Disney Television.
As a result, two of the unscripted team’s senior vice presidents are exiting as part of the layoffs.
We hear that Tiffany Faigus, who is SVP Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, ABC Entertainment and Walt Disney Television Alternative, and Belisa Balaban, SVP Original Documentaries and Unscripted Series, Hulu Originals, are out.
Faigus has been with ABC since 2015. She was promoted in 2021, having previously been VP Alternative Series and Specials, taking on a new role that encompassed both the network and the unscripted studio side of the business at Walt Disney Television Alternative. Faigus has worked on shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,...
Deadline understands that the company is combining the unscripted teams at ABC Entertainment and Hulu. The move was made by Rob Mills, EVP Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment at Walt Disney Television.
As a result, two of the unscripted team’s senior vice presidents are exiting as part of the layoffs.
We hear that Tiffany Faigus, who is SVP Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, ABC Entertainment and Walt Disney Television Alternative, and Belisa Balaban, SVP Original Documentaries and Unscripted Series, Hulu Originals, are out.
Faigus has been with ABC since 2015. She was promoted in 2021, having previously been VP Alternative Series and Specials, taking on a new role that encompassed both the network and the unscripted studio side of the business at Walt Disney Television Alternative. Faigus has worked on shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,...
- 7/31/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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