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Wendi Trilling    

Executive Vice President, Comedy Development, CBS Entertainment

Wendi Trilling was promoted to Executive Vice President, Comedy Development, CBS Entertainment in September 2004. She reports to Nina Tassler, Chairman, CBS Entertainment.

Trilling joined CBS in 1990 in the Current Programs Department. She was named Manager of Comedy/Drama Series Development in 1992 and named Associate Director, Comedy Development in 1993. She was promoted to Director of Comedy Development in 1994, named a Vice President in 1997 and elevated to Senior Vice President, Comedy Development in June 2000.

Trilling was the programming executive responsible for developing and championing CBS’s signature comedy “Everybody Loves Raymond,” while also developing the Network’s most successful comedies, including “The King of Queens,” HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, TWO AND A HALF MEN, THE BIG BANG THEORY, MIKE & MOLLY, 2 BROKE GIRLS, and most recently, last season’s #1 new comedy THE MILLERS and the critically acclaimed MOM.

Prior to joining CBS, Trilling was a senior copywriter at BBK Advertising in Boston.

Trilling earned a bachelor of arts degree in screen studies from Clark University in Worcester, Mass. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and twin sons.

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CBS Comedy Exec Wendi Trilling to Exit After Over 24 Years
Longtime CBS comedy exec Wendi Trilling is exiting the network after more than two decades, Variety has confirmed. The head of comedy development for CBS ...
CBS Head Of Comedy Wendi Trilling To Depart After 25 Years At ...
In one of the biggest personnel changes in the broadcast comedy business in years, network TV's preeminent comedy development executive, CBS' Evp Wendi  ...
CBS Comedy Executive Wendi Trilling to Exit After 24 Years
Trilling joined CBS in 1990 as an assistant in current programs before transitioning to comedy/drama development in 1993. She served as executive VP comedy ...
Longtime CBS Comedy Exec Wendi Trilling Exits - The Hollywood ...
A replacement for Trilling, who has been with the network for more than two decades, has not yet been determined.
CBS Head Of Comedy Wendi Trilling To Depart Network After 25 ...
Network TV's preeminent comedy development executive, CBS' EVP Wendi Trilling, is leaving after a stint at the net spanning a quarter of a century.

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