Dolores Gavin is Executive Vice President of Development and Production East for Discovery Channel. In this capacity she oversees all aspects of Discovery Channel development and programming that originate from the network’s east coast headquarters in Silver Spring. Gavin also spearheads all scripted programming, oversees development and production strategy, and works closely with the creative community to deliver the highest quality non-fiction content for Discovery’s flagship network. She reports to Eileen O’Neill, Group President Discovery and TLC Networks. 

Since joining Discovery in 2010, Gavin has spearheaded a team that has developed and/or produced such #1 series as Gold Rush, Bering Sea Gold, Amish Mafia, Moonshiners and Sons of Guns, the last three of which she also served as Executive Producer.  Additionally, she developed and serves as Executive Producer on Klondike, the network’s first mini-series based on Charlotte Gray's book, Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike, a co-production between Discovery, Entertainment One Television (eOne) and Scott Free Television. 

Before joining Discovery, Gavin served as Vice President of Development and Programming at History Channel. In that role, she oversaw a team of programmers responsible for many of the network's most successful series and specials. Gavin developed and supervised several hit series including Ax Men, Cities of the Underworld ,and Ice Road Truckers, one of the highest rated series in network history, in addition to developing Swamp People. In 2005, Gavin developed and supervised Rome: Engineering an Empire, which earned two Primetime Emmy® awards for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special and Outstanding Editing. 

Gavin is the recipient of five Cine Awards, and was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy® in 2003 for the documentary The Day the Towers Fell. Her programs have earned over twenty Emmy® nominations in various categories. In 2008, Gavin earned her second Emmy® for the special A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day. She began her career at DreamWorks SKG in Los Angeles, where she worked as a Coordinator in the Feature Development Division as well as a Supervisor in DreamWorks' Animation Division. 

She is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and received a Graduate Certificate from The New School.

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