Culture 3 min read By Lauren Baxter
Scott Herbst Promoted to President of Lionsgate Television Group
Scott Herbst has been named president of the Lionsgate Television Group, taking on current programming, casting, music and scripted digital series alongside his development remit.
Scott Herbst has been promoted to president of the Lionsgate Television Group. In the new role, Herbst will continue to lead the group's development while also taking oversight of current programming, casting, music and scripted digital series. He continues to report to Kevin Beggs, the studio's chairman of motion picture and television production.
Herbst was most recently executive vice president and head of development for Lionsgate's television operation. He has been with the company since 2018, and his expanded portfolio consolidates several creative functions under a single executive. According to Variety, the new structure places him in charge of all creative operations for the studio's television business, so decisions about what Lionsgate Television develops, puts on the air and sets to music, and how its projects are cast, now run through one office.
The restructuring also reshapes the leadership layer beneath him. Under the new structure, Lionsgate TV executive vice presidents Lee Hollin and Marcello Bellisario, who head current programming, remain in those roles. Their work now sits within the broader television group that Herbst oversees, so the change centralizes creative decision-making rather than adding a new layer of management above them.
The move also brings music and casting under the same roof as development and programming. Adding those functions to Herbst's remit means that decisions about soundtracks and talent sit alongside the choices about which series move forward, rather than being handled separately. Scripted digital series, which fall outside the traditional television schedule, are now part of the same group, a sign that Lionsgate is treating streaming-oriented work and conventional television as parts of one creative pipeline.
The announcement underscores how the studio has built out its television business since Herbst joined. Over roughly eight years he has moved through the company's development ranks to the executive vice president level, and the promotion extends his responsibilities from shaping the slate to overseeing how that slate is produced, cast and scored. Reporting directly to Beggs keeps the television group tied to the studio's broader production leadership.
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