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Tarses was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of television writer Jay Tarses and Rachel Tarses (née Newdell), on March 16, 1964. [2] [3] Her younger sister, Mallory Tarses, is a fiction writer and high school English teacher, [4] and a younger brother, Matt Tarses, is a producer and screenwriter (The Goldbergs, Scrubs, Sports Night).
Jamie Tarses, one of the most dynamic television executives of her era who helped build NBC’s Must-See TV lineup and went on to become the first woman to lead a Big Three network programming ...
Jamie Tarses, the pioneering former ABC Entertainment president, died at 56 after suffering complications from a cardiac event last fall, according to her family. She was 56. Tarses, who led ABC ...
The Jordan McDeere character was loosely based on former ABC Entertainment President Jamie Tarses, who was a consultant on the show. [10]
It’s hard to believe now, but it took until 1996 for the broadcast networks to finally hire their first-ever female entertainment president, when ABC recruited Jamie Tarses away from NBC to take ...
Jamie Tarses: 1996–1999 Tarses was the first woman and one of the youngest people to hold such a post in an American broadcast network. [12] Tarses was the subject of a noteworthy "unflattering profile" written by Lynn Hirschberg in the New York Times Magazine in July 1997. [13] [14] Stuart Bloomberg: 1999 – January 2002 Susan M. Lyne
ABC was "a snakepit" at the time. Hirschberg observed Tarses's hairstyle, way of sitting, and her stress and wrote about "a nervous girl." "Women are emotional, and Jamie is particularly emotional," she wrote quoting an anonymous male. "You think of her as a girl, and it changes how you do business with her." [7]
ABC has scrapped 'The Mayor,' starring 'Glee' alum Lea Michele.