TORONTO - Erica Benson has joined Corus Entertainment as the director programming for Corus’ pay TV services Movie Central and Encore, the company announced Friday. Benson will focus on the strategic acquisition of programming and scheduling exclusive content and original programming to ensure a superior television experience for our subscribers. Prior to Movie Central, she was director, Canadian independent production at The Movie Network and, before that, was vice-president programming, Life Network and Discovery Health with Alliance Atlantis Communications. Benson joins Shelley Gillen, head of creative affairs and Jackie Pardy, director programming – acquisitions and administration, reporting to Andrew Eddy,...
