{"id":537485,"date":"2026-07-21T21:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537485\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:14:18","slug":"nat-geos-charlie-parsons-exits-as-part-of-disney-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537485\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Geo\u2019s Charlie Parsons Exits As Part Of Disney Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/national-geographic\/\" id=\"auto-tag_national-geographic\" data-tag=\"national-geographic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic<\/a> was hit by Tuesday morning\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/disney-layoffs-pixar-national-geographic-1236999275\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> latest round of Disney layoffs<\/a>, and one of its longest-serving executives was one of those affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/charlie-parsons\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charlie-parsons\" data-tag=\"charlie-parsons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Parsons<\/a>, SVP Development at the factual brand, is exiting as part of the cuts. Parsons has been with the broadcaster for more than 15 years and has worked on some of its biggest titles including One Strange Rock, Hostile Planet and Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted as well as recent shows including Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston and Best of the World with Antoni Porowski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline understands that just under 100 employees were laid off across <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney\" data-tag=\"disney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a> Entertainment Television, with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nat-geo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nat-geo\" data-tag=\"nat-geo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nat Geo<\/a> being particularly hit and some cuts at ABC News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe cuts were signaled earlier this year by new Disney CEO Josh D\u2019Amaro, who said in April the company was looking to \u201cstreamline our operations in various parts of the company to ensure we deliver the world-class creativity and innovation our fans value and expect from Disney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOther execs let go today at Nat Geo include some of Parsons\u2019 development colleagues, including directors in the division and Terry Danuser, VP, Casting and Talent Relations. Danuser, who previously spent over a decade at Discovery, has been with the company for over 11 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tParsons, not to be confused with the Survivor creator of the same name, joined Nat Geo in 2010, having previously been a director of content at the Travel Channel, where he worked on series including Man v. Food and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, and as an executive producer at Discovery Channel and Science Channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOther Nat Geo projects he worked on included Life Below Zero, events such as Earth Live and Yellowstone Live, as well as documentaries LA 92 and The Cave and its movies such as Killing Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic was hit by Tuesday morning\u2019s latest round of Disney layoffs, and one of its longest-serving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[264737,2398,156,4858,80148,21690,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-537485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-charlie-parsons","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-layoffs","tag-nat-geo","tag-national-geographic","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}