ABC announced today that former ABC Family President Paul Lee will become the new President of the ABC Entertainment Group, effective immediately. Lee will oversee the network’s primetime lineup and its sister company, ABC Studios. “Paul was hired six years ago because of his great creative instincts and his ability to identify an audience and develop programming that resonates with them, and those same strengths are why he was tapped for this new responsibility,” according to a statement from Disney co-chair Anne Sweeney. “Paul’s success at ABC Family is as amazing as it is indisputable, and I’m looking forward to his continued success on ABC.”
Lee joined ABC Family in 2004 and helped to turn the network around as an attractive destination for young women, thanks to programs like Kyle XY, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Pretty Little Liars, Greek, Make It or Break It and Huge. ABC Family is in top five of all cable networks in primetime among women 18-49, women 18-34, and females 12-34.
Lee replaces Steve McPherson, who announced his decision to resign from the company earlier this week.
Great more teen girl crap
Again, ABC Family is now completely unwatchable, this does not bode well for ABC proper.
I don’t think that they should call this network ABC Family anymore, it’s more for teenagers now. You could say it’s equivalent to TeenNick now so why not rename it ABC Teen, Young ABC, Teen Disney or some crap like that.
ABC wanted to change the name of the network to XYZ when they first bought it from Fox Family. But part of the contract said that Family MUST remain part of the network’s name.
The last thing I wanna do is watch any of these shows with my family, but that sucks that they can’t change the name.
F!@# Steve McPherson, Lee please bring back kyle XY by the way, that crap about teen pregnancy suck!
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His name is continually connected with Kyle Xy show! Everywhere… He has to bring it back. Kyle Xy has so many fans… I can’t end like this! I hope (me and another zillion people) Paul Lee brings back Kyle…
Idris Elba please buy Luther the csi show from the bbc in sindication. It is so rare that a African american has such extensive acting talent mixed with great writing. Luther is being hidden from the American public. Please help expose such a great talent to the world. You are so open minded about many of your shows. Movie hearthrob from Obsession with beyonce, thor with anthony hopkins, taken, american gangster with denzel.. please, please there are no positive African American male role models for our children to look up to on television. Idris is not only that but a movie star hearthrob