Talk:Garth Ancier

Notable achievements?
I've removed this - Garth Ancier is noted for expanding BBC Worldwide’s portfolio of channels, which currently comprises the cable channel BBC America, now in more than 64 million homes; and working with U.S. networks on behalf of LA-based BBC Worldwide Productions.

Where has he expanded the BBC portfolio of channels. Not in the US, where it's the only BBC channel - BBC World News is not widely available as a separate channel, and if it is at all, it's in place of BBC America. Quiensabe (talk) 00:42, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Notable Achievements
Moved to talk because a lot of these seem more like trivia than notable.


 * Ancier also manages BBC Worldwide’s U.S. TV and video sales business introduction of BBC Worldwide’s web-based program delivery system, bbc.com, which is currently in the process of approval.


 * Ancier ran In2TV, the Warner Bros./AOL broadband television network.


 * He is one of the only two executives in the history of television (Fred Silverman being the other) to head three different network entertainment divisions: NBC, Fox and The WB. His career includes being th President of Production at Walt Disney Television; creator and executive producer of the talk show Ricki Lake; television consultant for the 1992 Democratic National Convention, and chief programming strategist to CNN Networks (CNN/US, CNN Headline News and CNN International) and all of the TBS entertainment networks.


 * Ancier helped shape the broadcast service targeted for teens and young adults by developing and overseeing production of key hits like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson’s Greek, 7th Heaven, The Jamie Foxx Show, Charmed and Felicity.


 * Before rejoining the WB in 2003, Ancier served as Executive Vice President, Programming, for cable giant Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. At Turner, Ancier helped CNN by implementing a new strategy of name brand, appointment programming that included the development of new series like American Morning, Newsnight and Anderson Cooper 360, adding news stars Aaron Brown, Paula Zahn, Connie Chung and Soledad O’Brien to the anchor roster, bolstered the profile of Wolf Blitzer as a key anchor, and introduced Anderson Cooper to the network.
 * On the entertainment side, he re-focused TBS and TNT to serve distinct audiences, and expanded the footprint of the “Adult Swim” block on Cartoon Network.


 * At NBC, Ancier scheduled such series as The West Wing, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Third Watch. During that time he also developed Ed, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Scrubs and Fear Factor.
 * During the late 1980s, Ancier was a founder at the creation and launch of Fox Broadcasting Company, serving as that network's first President of Programming. He developed and scheduled a new brand of television programming with hits such as The Simpsons, Married…with Children, In Living Color and 21 Jump Street.


 * Ancier is a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University and a native of New Jersey. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Council of Families and Television, and has served on the Hall of Fame Selection Committee for The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the AOL Time Warner Foundation Board, the Governor's Board of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society (HRTS), and the Board of Trustees of the National Association of College Broadcasters. He was the recipient of the 2004 Spirit of Hope Award at The Help Group's 8th Annual Teddy Bear Ball.

Criticisms
''also sounds like trivia"
 * Among fans of the short-lived teen dramas My So-Called Life and Freaks and Geeks, Ancier is widely known for being responsible for the shows' cancellation.

Accusations of child sexual abuse
There should be something about how Ancier was sued for child sexual abuse by Michael Egan:


 * https://www.thewrap.com/xxx-yyy-zzz-named-sex-abuse-lawsuits/
 * https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/michael-egan-bryan-singer-lawsuit.html