Lindy DeKoven

Lindy DeKoven is a novelist, television executive, producer, and California state commissioner. She was Executive Vice President of NBC overseeing movies and miniseries and then served as an Executive Producer at Paramount/CBS where she developed the comedy, Listen Up! for CBS Television as well as, television pilots, miniseries, and made-for-TV movies.At NBC, DeKoven ordered to production: Merlin, Gulliver’s Travels, The Odyssey, The Temptations, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, A Woman of Independent Meanshttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112226/, The 60’shttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169528/, The 70’shttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224821/, Asteroid, Noahs Ark, The Beast, Crime & Punishment, Pandoras Clock, The NBC Monday Night Movie female-teen franchise featuring Beverly Hills, 90210 stars, such as Tori Spelling, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Brian Austin Green, Michelle Williams, and Jennie Garth, which was among the first television programs to feature soundtracks by new artists.DeKoven is a gubernatorial appointee to the California Commission on the Status of Women which she chaired, the California State Parks and Recreation Commission, and the California State Film Commission. She served on the Board of the California Governor and First Ladys Conference on Women and is featured in Jennifer Siebel Newsoms documentary, Miss RepresentationDeKoven is the author of two novels, Primetime Princess (2013) and The Secret Life of Wishful Thinking (2015)

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