Amazon’s Head Of Docuseries Alysia Russo Leaves, Joins Netflix

Peter White

20 September 2024 at 12:32 pm·1-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Alysia Russo, who was Head of Docuseries at Amazon MGM Studios, is moving to Netflix.

It marks a rare senior executive moving directly between two rival studios.

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Russo is understood to be working on feature docs at Netflix. While there are two executives from this team on maternity leave, Russo’s role is unrelated and is a temporary contract, thought to be 18 months.

Russo was behind Amazon docuseries such as LulaRich and its upcoming Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story, which comes from the producers of ID’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.

Her move comes less than four months after a restructure within Amazon MGM Studios.

In May, Russo’s boss Lauren Anderson, who was Head of AVOD Programming and Studios Unscripted across U.S. Prime Video and Amazon Freevee, was named Head, Brand and Content Innovation, but continuing to oversee the AVOD originals team.

Netflix’s recent docuseries including American Nightmare — which was one of its most popular titles of the first six months of the year — Homicide, Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal, Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult and America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders with upcoming titles such as Mr. McMahon, Chef’s Table: Noddles, This Is The Zodiac Speaking and Aaron Rodgers: Enigma.

On the feature side, recent titles include The Greatest Night in Pop, How To Rob A Bank, Inside The Mind of a Dog and Apollo 13: Survival with upcoming titles such as Jailbreak: Love on the Run and Will Ferrell’s Sundance acquisition Will & Harper.

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