Insider on Track

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Paramount Domestic Television has officially begun production on The Insider, with all of the show's staff in place.

D.J. Petroro and Ron Vandoor are the show's senior producers, reporting to executive producer Linda Bell Blue. Petroro comes from Access Hollywood where he worked for seven years. Vandor has been supervising producer of Insider sister show Entertainment Tonight for the past three years.

Anthony Beilinsohn, John Palacio, Steve Tseckares and Jonathan Zager all are supervising producers.

Beillinsohn comes from Access Hollywood, where he was a producer for five years. Palacio will head up The Insider's New York office. He comes from Good Morning America, where he worked for 13 years. Tseckares has been a producer at ET Weekend for the past five years, and Zager comes over from ET where he's been a producer for one year. He formerly was a senior producer of NBC Universal's Maury.

Michael Delazzer and Julie Rashid, both of ET, have been named coordinating producers.

The Insider, cleared in 98% of the U.S., premieres on Monday, Sept. 13. The show is hosted by Pat O'Brien, formerly of Access Hollywood.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.