Archive · 19 Sep 2025
Lionsgate Unscripted Division Hit Hard By Layoffs
Lionsgate, a media company, is cutting jobs in its unscripted TV division.
About 50 employees are being let go.
This is part of a broader effort to adjust to changes in the entertainment business, following similar cuts.
Key executives, including Gretchen Stockdale, are leaving the company.
This is similar to what other companies like Paramount, Warner Bros., and Disney are also doing.
The unscripted business is feeling the effects of a market correction.
The company's CEO said they are changing to compete better.
Lionsgate is reducing its staff, affecting its unscripted division.
Approximately 50 staff members are being laid off.
Executives from the unscripted division are exiting.
This follows a previous round of layoffs in November 2024.
The company is responding to changes and disruption in the industry.
- Who
- Lionsgate
- What
- Reducing staff
- When
- November 2024; and Recently
- Where
- Lionsgate Alternative Television
- Why
- Adapting to industry changes and a market correction
- Company
- Lionsgate
- Division Affected
- Lionsgate Alternative Television
- Layoffs
- Approximately 50 staff members
- Percentage Reduction
- 5%
- Executives Exiting
- Gretchen Stockdale, Dirk Hoogstra, Nicole Sorrenti, Sam Heng
- Pilgrim Media Group COO
- Gretchen Stockdale
