Lionsgate Layoffs: Alternative Television Hit Hard

EXCLUSIVE : Lionsgate Alternative Television, the company’s unscripted division, has been hit hard by the latest round of layoffs .

Deadline broke the news earlier today that Lionsgate would be reducing 5% of its companywide staff with around 50 staff thought to be existing.

It’s now emerged that key unscripted executives including Gretchen Stockdale, COO of Pilgrim Media Group , are exiting as a result of the redundancies. Stockdale, who was also general counsel, has been at the company since 2008 and was instrumental in Pilgrim’s 2015 sale to Lionsgate.

Pilgrim Media Group is behind series such as Discovery’s Dirty Jobs and Harpoon Hunters , Netflix’s High on the Hog , Investigation Discovery’s Very Scary People and ABC and Hulu’s recent true-crime docuseries Scamand