Enjoy a 1-hour meeting with Thom Hinkle, EVP of Original Programming at the TBS Network in Burbank, California.
Hinkle is responsible for original scripted comedy on the network and serves as the primary liaison between TBS and the studios that produce its scripted originals. Hinkle joined TBS in October 2013. Since then, he has worked on several new and upcoming series for the network, including Angie Tribeca, starring Rashida Jones and created by Steve and Nancy Carell. He has also developed TBS’s new pilot Wrecked, a single-camera comedy from up-and-coming writers Justin Shipley & Jordan Shipley and executive producer Jesse Hara. Most recently, Hinkle helped TBS make headlines with his work in bringing Daily Show stars Jason Jones and Samantha Bee to the network. Jones will star in a new scripted comedy the pair are writing together, and Bee is in development on an issues-based series in which she will star.
Before coming to TBS, Hinkle served as co-president of Carousel Television, the TV production arm for Steve Carell’s Carousel Productions. While at Carousel Television, he sold a large number of scripted comedy concepts to broadcast and cable outlets and helped secure development deals with NBC, 20th Century Fox and Universal Cable Productions. Among the projects Hinkle put into development for Carousel are TBS’s upcoming Angie Tribeca and the recent pilot Wrecked, along with the movie Bone Wars for HBO. Hinkle joined Carousel after serving as vice president of NorthSouth Productions, where he started their Los Angeles office, created the Mojo series Getting Abroad and co-executive produced and directed Mojo’s I Bet You.Prior to that, he served as producer on the pilots Off the Road with Andrew Daily for TBS and as co-executive producer and director of TLC’s In a Fix. Hinkle began his career at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where he was hired as a researcher before being promoted to associate producer and field producer. While at The Daily Show, he earned the honor of being its very first Employee of the Month.
Hinkle holds a bachelor’s degree in TV/film from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He was a semi-finalist at the Nintendo National Championships in 1990.
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