Rose Catherine Pinkney
{{short description|American television development executive}}
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Rose Catherine Pinkney (born 1964) is an American television development executive. She was hired as the VP Development and Original Programming for TV Land in 2012.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2012/03/rose-catherine-pinkney-joins-tv-land-as-vp-development-245746/|title=Rose Catherine Pinkney Joins TV Land As VP Development|access-date=May 30, 2014|date=March 19, 2012|website=Deadline Hollywood|author=Andreeva, Nellie}} Pinkney has previously served as Director of Programming at Twentieth Century Fox Television, senior vice president of comedy development at Paramount Pictures Television and executive vice president of programming and production at TV One.{{cite web|url=http://insidesu.syr.edu/2011/02/01/cinema-gypsy/ |title=Entertainment industry exec visits Newhouse for 10th annual 'Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media' |access-date=February 19, 2011 |date=February 1, 2011 |publisher=Syracuse University |author=Alvarez, Jaime Winne |work=Inside SU |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720053455/http://insidesu.syr.edu/2011/02/01/cinema-gypsy/ |archive-date=July 20, 2011 }} She most recently served as the head of the television arm of Laurence Fishburne's production company, Cinema Gypsy.{{cite web|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117997430?refCatId=14|title=Laurence Fishburne expands to TV: New 'CSI' star inks first-look deal with CBS|access-date=February 19, 2011|date=December 15, 2008|work=Variety|author=Schneider, Michael}} Among Pinkney's accolades are Network Journal's 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business, Cable World's Top 50 Women in Cable and Black Enterprise's Top 50 Entertainment Executives.
Early life and academic career
Pinkney was born and raised in Prince George's County, Maryland, the youngest child and only daughter of Joseph and Maud Pinkney. She points to her parents' marriage, which {{asof|lc=on|2008}} had lasted 56 years, as her model of personal values that she has carried through life. Hailing from Brandywine, Maryland, Pinkney is a graduate of Gwynn Park High School.{{cite book|title=The Freshman Herald: Class of 1986|publisher=Student Employment Office and Student Agencies|year=1982}} She has an A.B. from Princeton University in sociology and an M.B.A. from UCLA's Anderson School of Management with a concentration in marketing and entertainment management.{{cite web|url=http://www.tnj.com/25-Influential-black-women/2008/rose-catherine-pinkney |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109080559/http://www.tnj.com/25-Influential-black-women/2008/rose-catherine-pinkney |archive-date=January 9, 2011 |title=25 Influential Black Women Class of 2008: Rose Catherine Pinkney |access-date=February 19, 2011 |date=2008 |publisher=The Network Journal |url-status=dead }} Pinkney is a graduate of Princeton and a lifetime member of its Association of Black Princeton Alumni.{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton-abpa.org/dynamic.asp?id=lifetime_members|title=Lifetime Members|access-date=February 21, 2011|publisher=Association of Black Princeton Alumni}} She graduated from the Anderson School in 1988 and {{asof|lc=on|2011}} served on its Alumni Advisory Board.{{cite web|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x1098.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813194133/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x1098.xml |title=Alumni Board |archive-date=August 13, 2011 |access-date=February 21, 2011 |publisher=UC Regents |url-status=dead }}
Professional career
While director of programming at Twentieth Century Fox, she developed series such as The X-Files and supervised In Living Color for four years. While serving as director of programming she developed comedy, drama and alternative series and as current programming executive, she oversaw the production of several comedies, dramas and alternative shows each year. Among the other shows she developed were New York Undercover, South Central, and Alien Nation.{{cite web|url=http://www.targetmarketnews.com/storyid12130501.htm|title=TV One names Rose Catherine Pinkney EVP of programming, development|access-date=February 19, 2011|date=December 12, 2005|publisher=Target Market News Inc.|author=Umstead, R. Thomas}}
Subsequently, she served as Upton Entertainment's vice president and head of television. Here she supervised the creation of New York Undercover.
Next, she was senior vice president of comedy development at Paramount Network Television, where over the course of nearly ten years she developed more than 30 television programs for six television networks, including United Paramount Network's (UPN) Girlfriends. She joined Paramount in 1995 as vice president of comedy development and was promoted to senior vice president and department head in 2002. During her time at Paramount other shows she developed included Becker, One on One and Andy Richter Controls the Universe. As department head, her responsibilities included identifying writers, directors, talent and ideas for comedy series for television.
She was hired at TV One, which is the second-oldest and second-largest black television network behind BET,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/arts/television/11one.html|title=A Network for Blacks With Sense of Mission |access-date=February 19, 2011|date=December 11, 2007|work=The New York Times|author=Lee, Felicia R.}} in December 2005, and she started in January 2006. At TV One, where she served as executive vice president of programming and development, she was responsible for programming strategy and oversaw all program production, acquisition, scheduling and business development for the network.{{cite web|url=http://redesign.tvoneonline.com/inside_tvone/news_content.asp?ID=1095 |title=Rose Catherine Pinkney Named TV One Executive Vice President of Programming, Production and Development |access-date=February 19, 2011 |date=December 12, 2005 |publisher=TV One |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717114819/http://redesign.tvoneonline.com/inside_tvone/news_content.asp?ID=1095 |archive-date=July 17, 2011 }} Her time at TV One was spent in unscripted reality and lifestyle programming television.{{cite web|url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/86333-Five_Questions_for_Rose_C_Pinkney.php|title=Five Questions for Rose C. Pinkney|access-date=February 19, 2011|date=September 17, 2006|publisher=NewBay Media, LLC.|work=Multichannel News|author=Umstead, R. Thomas and Linda Moss}} When UPN and WB merged to form CW in September 2006 prior to the 2006–07 United States network television season, several of the African-American-themed sitcoms that Pinkney had developed while at Paramount were short-lived.{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2006/05/10/black-tv-shows-on-shaky-ground/|title=Black TV shows on shaky ground|access-date=February 20, 2011|date=May 10, 2006|work=Baltimore Sun|author=Zurawik, David}} Pinkney has been one of the more outspoken executives on the issue of portrayal of race relations on air.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-29-et-bff29-story.html|title=Buddy system: They're wise, loyal and often sassy. Black Best Friends help white heroines, but do they limit black actresses?|access-date=February 20, 2011|date=August 29, 2007|work=Los Angeles Times|author=Braxton, Greg}}
In December 2008, Cinema Gypsy, which is Laurence Fishburne's production company, signed a first-look deal with CBS Paramount Network Television to produce television shows. At that time, Pinkney was named to head the television arm of Cinema Gypsy as it expanded its operations to television programming. In her capacity, she oversaw the development of programming for broadcast and cable networks.
In 2012, Pinkney became VP Development and Original Programming at TV Land, assuming responsibility for TV Land’s existing original series and the development of new ones. Pinkney reports to the EVP Development and Original Programming Keith Cox.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100424235750/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/231694/Rose-Catherine-Pinkney Filmography] at The New York Times
- {{IMDb name|0684384}}
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