According to Deadline, Viacom/Paramount Global 25-year veteran, Keyes Hill-Edgar (The Day the Music Died/American Pie, Catfish: The TV Show), will be stepping down as Chief Operating Officer at Paramount Media Networks and Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios. Hill-Edgar notified his colleagues in a company memo.
According to Deadline, Hill-Edgar will join former Co-CEO and President of Showtime/MTV Entertainment, Chris McCarthy (Out of Iraq, 2024 MTV Video Music Awards), who left on July 7 after Skydance acquired Paramount Global. George Cheeks (What’s Next, Belushi), Dana Goldberg (Brother From Another Mother, Wicked Game: Vol. 2), and Cindy Holland (The Comedians of Comedy: Live at the El Rey, Angel City) will be taking over McCarthy’s duties.
Hill-Edgar and McCarthy are not the only executives who will be departing. According to Deadline, Nina L. Diaz, Chief Creative Officer, and Liza Burnett Fefferman, EVP and Head of Communications, will also leave the company.
Deadline also mentions Hill-Edgar oversaw all business planning, operations and strategies of all developing content. His work on brands includes, Paramount Media Networks, MTV, Showtime, and Comedy Central, just to name a few. A co-creator of South Park, Matt Stone (Despicable Me 3, The World’s End), mentioned Hill-Edgar and McCarthy both recently after a new deal was minted for the animated series.
“Trey and I and the whole South Park crew are grateful for this extension and this deal,” Stone said via Deadline. “We want to thank Chris McCarthy and Keyes Hill-Edgar for years of great partnership and are looking forward to continuing to make South Park for the next five years.”
In Edgar-Hill’s memo to his staff, he commented and reminisced about when he was just a young associate invited to join Viacom after their merger with CBS, according to Deadline. After joining Viacom, he held many positions with the company, including but not limited to business and legal affairs, SVP and Deputy General Counsel, and EVP as well. In his farewell memo, he acknowledged his boss McCarthy, Mike Frickles, and Myna Sterling, his executive assistant for his entire 25-year career with Viacom.
