Speaker Colin Davis
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Colin Davis is the Senior Director of Original Programming for TBS. He creatively manages six
primetime original series, a late night comedy block, multiple pitch to screen scripted development
projects, and an adult prime animation pipeline.
Davis began his career at Fox Broadcasting Company in their inaugural Opportunity Fox program as a
full-time Apprentice to the Chairman of Entertainment. In 2013, Davis was featured by Variety
Magazine as an "Assistant to Watch" and in Business Insider's "Assistants Who Run Hollywood."
In 2014, he followed his mentor Kevin Reilly to Turner and was a key contributor to the successful TBS
rebrand. In these efforts for TBS, Davis has helped usher in their first wave of new series, all of which
were renewed: Search Party, Wrecked, People of Earth, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Detour,
and Angie Tribeca. Davis is a graduate of UCLA's School of Theater Film and Television with a
concentration in screenwriting.
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