Veteran MTV Networks executive Nina L. Diaz, who most recently served as President of Content and Chief Creative Officer for Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, will be leaving when Skydance‘s pending acquisition of Paramount Global is completed Aug. 7.She just made the announcement in an internal memo, a copy of which was obtained by Deadline.“Change, as we know, is part of this business — and part of growth. I’m stepping forward with deep gratitude and high spirits, knowing that the impact we’ve made here will keep echoing,” Diaz wrote Monday in the email, in which she included several highlights from her time at the company, from The Osbournes and Love & Hip-Hop to Landman, Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show and Yellowjackets’ resurgence.Diaz is departing alongside her longtime boss Chris McCarthy, co-CEO of Paramount Global and President of Showtime/MTV Entertainment, whose pending exit was revealed last week. Since returning to MTV Networks in 2014, Diaz has seen her role expand through a series of promotions, most recently to President of Content and Chief Creative Officer for Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios in 2023.In that role, she oversaw the development and production of over 100 series annually across MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount Network and Showtime, including the Yellowstone franchise, MobLand, Lioness, Emily in Paris, South Park, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Dexter: Original Sin, Dexter: Resurrection, The Agency and The Daily Show.Diaz has an extensive unscripted background as a seasoned executive and producer in the space for two and a half decades. She began her career at MTV where she developed and launched signature shows of the early 2000s such as My Super Sweet 16, Cribs as well as The Osbournes, which she conceived the idea for after meeting the family on the set of Cribs.After a stint as an independent producer on such series as VH1’s Mob Wives and Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey, Diaz returned to VH1 in 2014. She was subsequently upped to EVP and Head of Reality Programming at VH1 and Head of Unscripted for MTV and VH1 before expanding into scripted. During her tenure, she spearheaded the transformation of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Jersey Shore and The Challenge into global franchises.A leading Latina executive and the highest-ranked woman of color within Paramount’s TV programming operation, Diaz ahas been focused on investing in BIPOC and women creators. She launched a joint venture with producer Lashan Browning to launch the production company Antoinette Media and played a leadership role in convening an industry-wide coalition in partnership with USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative to create the Mental Health Media Guide.
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