Exclusive: Cj Yu, who was Head of Unscripted Development, Global Formats at Amazon Studios, has left the company.
It’s not entirely clear why Yu, who was responsible for the international roll out of formats including All Or Nothing and Lol: Last One Laughing, left the company but one source close to the situation said it was over “creative differences”.
Yu joined Amazon Studios in 2017, initially as a senior creative development and programming executive before becoming Head of Unscripted Development in Latin America and then promoted to the global formats role in 2019.
He previously held role at Mark Burnett Productions, Endemol, TMZ and Talpa Media.
Based in LA, he was responsible for the global development, commissioning and localization of reality and docuseries formats at the company. This included adapting sports franchise All or Nothing in over a dozen markets, and comedy format Lol: Last One Laughing in close to 20 markets...
It’s not entirely clear why Yu, who was responsible for the international roll out of formats including All Or Nothing and Lol: Last One Laughing, left the company but one source close to the situation said it was over “creative differences”.
Yu joined Amazon Studios in 2017, initially as a senior creative development and programming executive before becoming Head of Unscripted Development in Latin America and then promoted to the global formats role in 2019.
He previously held role at Mark Burnett Productions, Endemol, TMZ and Talpa Media.
Based in LA, he was responsible for the global development, commissioning and localization of reality and docuseries formats at the company. This included adapting sports franchise All or Nothing in over a dozen markets, and comedy format Lol: Last One Laughing in close to 20 markets...
- 11/29/2023
- by Peter White and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
John Anderson was struggling with the issue that is every musician’s nightmare: in the midst of a serious illness that had forced him off the road, his hearing disappeared. Singing and playing his guitar, the way the “Seminole Wind” singer had been doing as a profession for more than 40 years, seemed like a thing of the past.
“I was almost 100 percent deaf there for about 6 or 7 months, due to different things. But nobody could really put a finger on what had happened or why,” Anderson says, calling from his home in Smithville,...
“I was almost 100 percent deaf there for about 6 or 7 months, due to different things. But nobody could really put a finger on what had happened or why,” Anderson says, calling from his home in Smithville,...
- 4/10/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
John Anderson populated the country charts in the Eighties with five Number One hits including the Cma Award-winning “Swingin’,” and in the Nineties recorded one of the best albums of the decade, Seminole Wind. Now, the 65-year-old Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member takes a backward glance at his personal and professional accomplishments in the contemplative new song and video for “Years,” the title cut from his forthcoming album, out April 10th on Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound.
Written by Anderson with Pat McLaughlin, David Ferguson, and album producer Dan Auerbach,...
Written by Anderson with Pat McLaughlin, David Ferguson, and album producer Dan Auerbach,...
- 1/17/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
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