Thursday, February 14, 2013

Nickelodeon Promotes Jim Kukucka To Vice President, West Coast Series Production At Nickelodeon Group

The children's entertainment and media news website Kidscreen is reporting the Nickelodeon News in the following article that Nickelodeon has promoted executive Jim Kukucka to the role of Vice President (VP), West Coast Series Production at Nickelodeon Group, where he will oversee production of original series, pilots and presentation projects. As part of his promotion, Kukucka will also monitor the development pool spending and commitments along with liaising with the creative client groups, the channel executive and finance department to keep the brands long range plan updated with new projects. He is currently overseeing the brand-new Nickelodeon comedy series "Marvin Marvin", season four of Nick's musical comedy show "Big Time Rush", and the Nick at Nite pilot "Instant Mom", which is set to co-star Classic Nickelodeon UK Star Tia Mowry (who portrayed 'Tia Landry' in the Classic Nick UK comedy series "Sister, Sister") as a 25-year-old party girl who trades in cosmos for carpools when she marries successful doctor Charlie (portrayed by actor Michael Boatman, who played the character 'Carter Heywood' in hit US sitcom "Spin City"), an older man with kids.

Kukucka most recently served as director of production for Nickelodeon's Live Action division. During his tenure at the company he has helped execute live-action series including "Big Time Rush" and "Figure It Out". Prior to working at Nick, he produced and co-produced various shows including the popular comedy series "The King of Queens":
Jim Kukucka assumes VP role at Nickelodeon

Jim Kukucka has been upped to VP, West Coast Series Production at Nickelodeon Group, where he will oversee production of original series, pilots and presentation projects.


Kukucka will also monitor the development pool spending and commitments along with liaising with the creative client groups, the channel executive and finance department to keep the long range plan updated with new projects. He is currently overseeing the brand-new Nickelodeon series Marvin Marvin, season four of Big Time Rush (pictured), and the Nick at Nite pilot Instant Mom.

Kukucka most recently served as director of production for Nickelodeon’s Live Action division. During his tenure at the company he has helped execute live-action series including Big Time Rush and Figure It Out. Prior to Nick, he produced and co-produced various shows including The King of Queens.

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