The trio will report to Tiffany Faigus, SVP of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, ABC Entertainment and WDT Alternative.
Walt Disney Television Alternative, the studio’s newly formed unscripted unit, has named Jill Chapman, Alicia Martino and Mike Rosen to executive positions.
All three will report to Tiffany Faigus, senior vice president of unscripted and alternative entertainment for ABC Entertainment and WDT Alternative, while WDT Alternative is led by Rob Mills, executive vice president of unscripted and alternative entertainment for Walt Disney Television.
Chapman has been named vice president of alternative series and content planning, while Martino joins as vice president of alternative series and Rosen will serve as vice president of production.
Chapman joins Disney from Hulu, where she led the unscripted TV development strategy across original and licensed content with a focus on docu-soap and docu-follow, competition and lifestyle programming.
Martino’s previous experience includes having worked on the early seasons of ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and projects such as Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Girl and Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen.
Rosen has held production executive positions at networks and studio groups including the CW, Fox, MTV, ABC and, most recently, Amazon Studios.
The team has been tasked with identifying new ideas and concepts for series, collaborating with the creative community as well as new and existing talent, and supervising creative production on unscripted series and pilots.
The idea is for the unit to generate new projects for ABC, Hulu and other networks and streaming platforms across Disney.
Speaking about the appointment, Mills and Faigus said: “We are excited to have Jill, Alicia and Mike leading production services and creative oversight for WDT Alternative. We are proud to have set the all-star team that will work with all of our creative partners across our platforms and beyond to produce the most groundbreaking and buzzworthy unscripted series and specials.”