Kevin Reilly (executive)

Kevin Reilly is the president of TV channels TBS and TNT and Chief Creative Officer for Turner Entertainment, where his duties include overseeing Turner's new ventures, Super Deluxe and Eleague. He is the former Chairman of Entertainment for the Fox Broadcasting Company, where he oversaw prime-time development, programming, scheduling, marketing, research, digital and business affairs for the network.

Reilly was born in Manhasset, New York and earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.

Reilly served as President of Entertainment for FX. In that role, Reilly helped redefine the basic cable business with an aggressive slate of original quality programming including The Shield, Nip/Tuck, and Rescue Me. Within a year of his arrival, FX made cable history with its seminal series, The Shield, which broke cable ratings records when it premiered and went on to receive a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series (2002) and an Emmy Award for lead actor Michael Chiklis (2002).

After leaving his role at FX, Reilly first served as NBC's President, Primetime Development in fall 2003. He became President of the network in May 2004 and served until May 2007. He began his career at NBC Entertainment almost two decades earlier. Early in his career at NBC, Reilly supervised Law & Order in its first season and developed ER. After his first stint at NBC, Reilly was President of Brad Grey Television, the television production arm of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment. He joined Brillstein-Grey in 1994. He was responsible for shepherding some of television’s top shows, such as the pilot for The Sopranos, and the NBC comedies Just Shoot Me! and NewsRadio.

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