Cara Casey serves as FremantleMedia North America’s (FMNA) Vice President of Alternative Programming. In her role, Casey is responsible for the development and production of reality competition, game show and other unscripted television programming. Since joining FMNA in early 2016, Casey has been developing multiple new formats and reimagining FremantleMedia’s most admired classics.

Casey came to FMNA after spending three years as Vice President of Development and Programming at Wilshire Studios. While there, she focused on developing new series, as well as overseeing current production. She oversaw series such as “The Soup” (E!) and “Fashion Police” (E!), as well as “Baggage” (GSN), and “Sex with Brody” (E!). In addition, Casey sold numerous pilots to USA, A&E, Food Network, VH1, AMC, MTV, Bravo, Syfy, Oxygen, and Sundance.

Casey was previously an executive at Sony Pictures Television where she developed various pilots, and oversaw production for series including “Shark Tank” (ABC), “The Sing Off” (NBC), “Plain Jane” (CW), “Summer Camp” (USA) and the syndicated “The Queen Latifah Show”.

Prior to joining Sony, Casey produced over 500 hours of programming in a wide variety of genres and has won two Daytime Emmy Awards. Some of her credits include: "Secret Millionaire" (ABC), "Jessica Simpson: Price of Beauty" (VH1), "Trading Spouses" (FOX), "LaLa Land" (Showtime), "THS" (E!) and the "Rachel Ray" talk show. In addition, Casey also collaborated on Bill Maher’s “Religulous” and Sacha Baron Cohen’s "Bruno."

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