Jamie Tarses
| Jamie Tarses | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Sara James Tarses March 16, 1964 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US |
| Other names | Jamie McDermott |
| Alma mater | Williams College |
| Occupation | Producer Studio executive |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Known for |
Friends My Boys Happy Endings |
| Spouse(s) | Dan McDermott (1993–1996) |
| Parent(s) |
Jay Tarses Rachel Tarses |
| Relatives | Matt Tarses (brother) |
Sara James "Jamie" Tarses (born March 19, 1964) is a television producer and former television studio executive. Tarses was the President of ABC Entertainment from 1996 to 1999, the first woman and one of the youngest people to hold such a post in an American broadcast network.
Tarses was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of television writer Jay Tarses and Rachel Tarses (née Newdell). She has a younger sister, Mallory Tarses, a fiction writer and high school English teacher, and a younger brother, Matt Tarses, a producer and screenwriter (The Goldbergs, Scrubs, Sports Night).
Tarses graduated from Williams College in 1985. She received a degree in theater.
After graduating from college, Tarses became an Assistant to the Talent Executive on the 1985-1986 season of Saturday Night Live. She then went on to work as a Casting Director for Lorimar Productions.
In September 1987, Tarses was hired by NBC Productions' Brandon Tartikoff as Manager, Creative Affairs. Tarses steadily worked in various advancing executive positions at NBC until 1996. At NBC, Tarses helped develop Friends and Mad About You.
In 1991, Tarses passed on her father's pilot about jazz musicians called Baltimore."
She left NBC in 1996 amidst a significant amount of press. From 1996 to 1999, Tarses was President of ABC Entertainment.
Tarses was the subject of a noteworthy "unflattering profile" written by Lynn Hirschberg in the New York Times Magazine in July 1997 in which Tarses "was portrayed as an embattled executive whose competence and professionalism was being questioned in Hollywood show business circles."
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