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Pearlena Igbokwe was named President, Universal Television in June 2016 and oversees creative programming for one of the country’s largest and most successful production companies. Prior to that, Igbokwe was Executive Vice President, Drama Programming, for NBC Entertainment. Igbokwe came to NBC from Showtime, where she worked closely with Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, for seven years.
Some of the programs she currently oversees include comedies “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Master of None,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “The Mindy Project,” and “Superstore,” and dramas “Chicago Fire” (and its spin-offs), “Shades of Blue,” “Bates Motel,” and “Pure Genius,” among numerous others.
During her 20-year tenure at Showtime, Igbokwe was involved in developing the pilot and overseeing every season of "Dexter," Showtime's most popular hit ever. She also developed the pilot for "Masters of Sex" starring Michael Sheen, and she supervised the Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed original series "Nurse Jackie" and "The Big C," as well as shepherded "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union," "Damon Wayans' Underground," Kirstie Alley's "Fat Actress," and the television adaptation of the hit feature film "Barbershop."
She was additionally instrumental in the five-season run of the hit Showtime series "Soul Food," a two-time NAACP Image Award winner for Best Drama Series. Igbokwe also has mined success from a number of original movies she developed for Showtime, including the Humanitas Award-nominated "Jasper, Texas," starring Academy Award winners Jon Voight and Louis Gossett Jr.; the Emmy Award-nominated "Bojangles," starring the late Gregory Hines; and the Peabody Award-winning "Strange Justice," to name just a few. She began her career at Showtime as Manager of Direct Response, Television Marketing, where she was responsible for all media planning and spending, agency creative development, video production and telemarketing for a $13 million general and Hispanic market acquisition campaign. Igbokwe most recently was featured in industry trade magazine Multichannel News' 2010 "Wonder Women" issue and previously in Hollywood Reporter's "Top 35 under 35," as well as in Ebony and Black Enterprise's "Top 50 Showbiz Players."
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