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Jan 21, 2024 · FanFare Productions is the production company of Jamie Tarses, a television producer and studio executive who served as the president of ABC from 1996 to 1999, the first woman and one of the youngest people to hold such a post in an American broadcast network.
- Early Life
- Career
- Personal Life
- Death
- Filmography
Tarses was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of television writer Jay Tarses and Rachel Tarses (née Newdell), on March 19, 1964. Her younger sister, Mallory Tarses, is a fiction writer and high school English teacher, and a younger brother, Matt Tarses, is a producer and screenwriter (The Goldbergs, Scrubs, Sports Night). Tarses gradua...
Casting director
After graduating from college, Tarses became an assistant to the talent executive on the 1985–1986 season of Saturday Night Live. She then worked as a casting director for Lorimar Productions, filling roles for mid-run Perfect Strangers.
Network executive
In September 1987, Tarses was hired by NBC Productions' Brandon Tartikoff as the manager of creative affairs. She climbed the corporate ladder at NBC until 1996. Here, she helped develop Friends, Mad About You, Frasier, NewsRadio, and Caroline in the City. In 1991, she passed on her father's pilot about jazz musicians, called Baltimore. Tarses left NBC in 1996 amidst a significant amount of press coverage. From 1996 to 1999, she was president of ABC Entertainment. She resigned in August 1999...
Producer
In 2005, Tarses partnered on a production company called Pariah Productions with producer Gavin Polone. Later, she had a company called FanFare Productions at Sony Pictures Television. Tarses was co-producer of My Boys, a comedy about a female sports reporter starring Jordana Spiro, on TBS cable television network from November 28, 2006, until September 14, 2010. In 2010, she produced several television series, including Mr. Sunshine, Happy Endings, and Franklin & Bash.
Tarses married DreamWorks SKG television executive Dan McDermott in 1993. They divorced in 1996. Tarses also dated Robert Morton, executive producer of Late Show with David Letterman, and Matthew Perry.She had two children, Wyatt and Sloane, with her partner Paddy Aubrey, an executive chef and restaurant owner. She served on the board of directors ...
Tarses had a strokein the fall of 2020, spent time in a coma, and then died in Los Angeles on February 1, 2021, at age 56 from what a family spokesperson called "complications of a cardiac event".
TV series
1. 1985–1986: Saturday Night Live– Production staff (18 episodes) 2. 1987–1988: Perfect Strangers– Casting director (12 episodes) 3. 2006–2007: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip– Consultant (13 episodes) 4. 2006–2010: My Boys– Executive producer (37 episodes) 5. 2009–2011: Hawthorne– Executive producer (24 episodes) 6. 2011: Mad Love– Executive producer (13 episodes) 7. 2011: Mr. Sunshine– Executive producer (6 episodes) 8. 2011–2013: Happy Endings– Executive producer (57 episodes) 9. 2011–2014:...
TV movies
1. 2001: Tikiville– Executive producer 2. 2003: Crazy Love– Executive producer 3. 2004: Nevermind Nirvana– Executive producer 4. 2006: The Angriest Man in Suburbia– Executive producer 5. 2006: More, Patience– Executive producer 6. 2007: Primeval– Executive producer 7. 2007: Backyards & Bullets– Executive producer 8. 2008: Held Up– Executive producer 9. 2009: Eva Adams– Executive producer 10. 2010: Held Up– Executive producer 11. 2012: Happy Valley– Executive producer 12. 2014: Duty– Executive...
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- 1985–2021
- Jamie McDermott
- Williams College
Jan 12, 2022 · FanFare, the production company of the trailblazing TV executive and producer who died a year ago at age 56, will continue to function with the help of Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and...
Produced through DECOSTA, The DDW designed and animated the closing logo for FanFare, former ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses new production company....
Feb 16, 2016 · 87. 44K views 7 years ago. Produced through DECOSTA, Chargefield designed and animated the closing logo for FanFare, former ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses new production company. The...
May 1, 2020 · May 1, 2020 1:36pm. HBO Max. EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has put in development Beth & Sam, a half-hour single-camera comedy from Emily Wilson ( The Conners ), My Boys creator Betsy Thomas, Jamie Tarses ‘...
Jan 29, 2023 · Fanfare Productions is a television production company founded by producer and former ABC president Jamie Tarses. History List of shows produced by Fanfare Productions
