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CULVER CITY, CA (July 11, 2011) - Scott Landsman has been named vice president of U.S. comedy development for Sony Pictures Television (SPT), it was announced today by Glenn Adilman, executive vice president, U.S. comedy development, SPT, to whom he reports.

In this role, Landsman will foster relationships with writers and creative talent and supervise new concepts from the idea stage through series launch for both cable and network programming.

Previously, Landsman served as vice president, original programming and development at Comedy Central since 2007. He joined the network in 2004 as director, current programming and in 2006 was named director, original programming and development. There he developed series such as Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, Krod Mandoon & the Flaming Sword of Fire and Lewis Black's Root of All Evil. Additionally, he spearheaded an internal development team focusing on scripted, reality and hybrid programming. Prior to that, he was director of development at Stun Creative where he developed a slate of scripted and reality television shows for broadcast and cable networks and, before that, he was executive director of development at USA Interactive Entertainment.

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