Rose Catherine Pinkney

Rose Catherine Pinkney (born 1964) Pinkney has previously served as Director of Programming at Twentieth Century Fox Television, senior vice president of comedy development at Paramount Pictures Television and executive vice president of programming and production at TV One. She most recently served as the head of the television arm of Laurence Fishburne's production company, Cinema Gypsy. Among Pinkney's accolades are Network Journal's 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business, Cable World's Top 50 Women in Cable and Black Enterprise's Top 50 Entertainment Executives. She has an A.B. from Princeton University in sociology and an M.B.A. from UCLA's Anderson School of Management with a concentration in marketing and entertainment management. She graduated from the Anderson School in 1988 and served on its Alumni Advisory Board.

Professional career While director of programming at Twentieth Century Fox, she developed series such as The X-Files and supervised In Living Color for four years.

Subsequently, she served as Upton Entertainment's vice president and head of television. Here she supervised the creation of New York Undercover. in December 2005, Her time at TV One was spent in unscripted reality and lifestyle programming television. When UPN and WB merged to form CW in September 2006 prior to the 2006–07 United States network television season, several of the African-American-themed sitcoms that Pinkney had developed while at Paramount were short-lived. Pinkney has been one of the more outspoken executives on the issue of portrayal of race relations on air.

In December 2008, Cinema Gypsy, which is Laurence Fishburne's production company, signed a first-look deal with CBS Paramount Network Television to produce television shows. At that time, Pinkney was named to head the television arm of Cinema Gypsy as it expanded its operations to television programming. In her capacity, she oversaw the development of programming for broadcast and cable networks.

In 2012, Pinkney became VP Development and Original Programming at TV Land, assuming responsibility for TV Land’s existing original series and the development of new ones. Pinkney reports to the EVP Development and Original Programming Keith Cox.