{"id":509803,"date":"2026-06-25T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509803\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:28:09","slug":"netflix-moves-adult-animation-back-under-head-of-comedy-tracey-pakosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509803\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Moves Adult Animation Back Under Head Of Comedy Tracey Pakosta"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Netflix<\/a> is realigning its comedy series operation, bringing adult animation under Tracey Pakosta<\/a>, the streamer\u2019s VP, Comedy Original Series. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe move reverts to the original setup when Pakosta joined Netflix in 2020<\/a> as Head of Comedy, with adult animation part of her purview. Billy Wee<\/a>, Director of Adult Animation, as well as two Managers in the department, including Lauren Castro, will now report to Pakosta.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the past few years, Netflix\u2019s adult animation slate had been overseen by John Derderian, Netflix\u2019s VP Animation Series + Kids & Family TV, whose division has been expanding its preschool and creator-driven kids content.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith comedy talent often moving seamlessly between live-action, adult animated series and standup \u2014 another area Pakosta oversees \u2014 the new structure will keep creators under one umbrella.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor instance, Mike Schur is working with Pakosta\u2019s team on his Ted Danson comedy series A Man On The Inside. He now also has an adult animated series at the streamer, Dang!. Nick Kroll also has a live-action (A Hundred Percent) and adult animated (Mating Season) series at the streamer. Ali Wong and Ricky Gervais have done both standup specials and animated series there. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Mating Season, Dang! and Gervais\u2019 Alley Cats, Netflix\u2019s slate of current and upcoming adult animated series include Long Story Short and Dealies. The streamer\u2019s roster of live-action comedy series includes Big Mistakes, The Hawk, The Four Seasons, Running Point, A Man on the Inside, Emily in Paris, Nobody Wants This, Leanne and Survival of the Thickest. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe animation realignment on the TV side was done a couple of weeks ago, ahead of the larger animation restructuring in features announced earlier this week, with Hannah Minghella named Head of Netflix Animation Studio<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is realigning its comedy series operation, bringing adult animation under Tracey Pakosta, the streamer\u2019s VP, Comedy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[234035,146,85,46,400,234036],"class_list":["post-509803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-billy-wee","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-netflix","tag-tracey-pakosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}