Ramona Rosales for Variety By the time Pearlena Igbokwe was offered the job of president of Universal Television in 2016, she already had an impressive résumé. She’d climbed the ranks over 20 years at Showtime, and then excelled during a four-year stretch as head of NBC’s drama department. But the prospect of moving out of the network hierarchy to lead one of the industry’s biggest television studios was daunting. It meant shifting from buying TV shows for NBC to selling shows to networks and streamers.
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