Nick Weidenfeld

Nicholas Rabb Weidenfeld (born September 26, 1979) is an American television producer and executive who led program development for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Fox's Animation Domination High-Def programming blocks. He won producing Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2013 for the series Childrens Hospital. Since 2016, he has been the president of programming for television channel Viceland.

Biography Weidenfeld was born in 1979 to Edward Weidenfeld, a Washington DC lawyer, and Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld, former press secretary to First Lady Betty Ford. He grew up in Georgetown and attended Georgetown Day School. While there, he parlayed his interest in rap into assignments writing up interviews for little-known popular culture magazines and websites. He started the alternative magazine While You Were Sleeping in the late 1990s, and reviewed music for magazines Seventeen and Teen Vogue. At Columbia University, he was a liberal arts major. He interned at the Pentagon. The two got along well. In seven years there, Weidenfeld developed, among others, Robot Chicken, the Peabody Award-winning animated series The Boondocks, Delocated, and Childrens Hospital, in addition to providing the voice of Peanut Cop in 12 oz. Mouse. For Childrens Hospital, he would win producing Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2013.

In June 2008, he married Amantha Starr Walden, a music executive at Adult Swim and daughter of the late record label executive Phil Walden. By October 2011, when their son was born, they had moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles.

In February 2012, then Fox President, Kevin Reilly tapped Weidenfeld to lead the network's foray into late-night Saturday animation. Dubbed Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD), the 90-minute programming block would be filled with 15-minute shows broken up by shorter bits. Two ADHD series were moved to primetime, while others continued on digital platforms, before they shifted to a new late-night animation block on sister channel FX in 2015.

Weidenfeld was hired in April 2016 as the president of programming for Viceland, a youth-oriented television channel that is a joint venture between A&E Networks and Vice Media.