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Kate Adler

Executive Vice President, Comedy Development, CBS Studios

March 2026

Kate Adler serves as Executive Vice President of Comedy Development at CBS Studios, a title she has held since 2013 after joining the studio in 2005. In her position, Adler oversees the development of all comedy series for broadcast, cable and streaming. Titles she has helped develop include GHOSTS, THE NEIGHBORHOOD and DMV for CBS, COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS for Paramount+, and award-winning series including DEAD TO ME for Netflix and CW’s CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, among others.

Prior to CBS Studios, Adler served as a producer for CBS’ SURVIVOR and CRIME & PUNISHMENT: REAL-LIFE LAW & ORDER for NBC. In 2002, she was a producer on the Oscar-winning documentary TWIN TOWERS which told the story of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit and their heroic acts on 9/11.

From 1997 to 2000, Adler was Vice President of Creative Affairs for Worldwide Pants Incorporated, where she supervised all new series development and production on CBS's EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND and ED for NBC, and recruited writers for THE LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN and THE LATE LATE SHOW with CRAIG KILBORN. In 1994, Adler was Director of Comedy Development for Walt Disney Network Television, where she developed shows for all six networks and served as current programming executive on ELLEN for ABC.
 
Prior to Disney, Adler worked at Creative Artists Agency as an assistant to the head of the television literary department.

Adler received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Harvard University.

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