NATPE 2009: Style Network Grabs Supernanny

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Comcast-owned Style Network has picked up the off-net rights to Disney-ABC's Supernanny. Style will premiere the show next fall. Supernanny, currently in its fifth season on ABC, features childcare expert Jo Frost criss-crossing America to take on some of its toughest parenting challenges. Nick Powell is the creator and executive producer of both the American and British versions of the show, while Nick Emmerson and Stephanie Schwam are executive producers of the American version. The show is produced by Ricochet Television.

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.