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Gena McCarthy
Producer, Additional Credits
Gena McCarthy is a television executive producer. She holds a B.A. in English Writing and History from the University of Pittsburgh. She began her career in 1993 working in children's television at a PBS affiliate, WQED Pittsburgh. She then worked in TLC’s programming and production units from 1998 to 2004. From 2006 to 2008, she was Vice President, Development and Production at WE tv. McCarthy then became Senior Vice President Development and Production for Discovery Channel. She joined Lifetime Networks in 2010 as Senior Vice President, Reality and Alternative Programming. In September 2013, she became Senior Vice President, Programming and Development for FYI and was promoted to Executive Vice President of Programming and Development in 2016. She returned to Lifetime in March 2018 in an expanded role to oversee all non-fiction development and production. In 2020, she was appointed Executive Vice President, Head of Programming for Lifetime Unscripted and Head of Programming, FYI.
Gena McCarthy Filmography
| 2021 | Wendy Williams: What a Mess! · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Surviving Jeffrey Epstein (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Married at First Sight: Couples Cam (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Marrying Millions (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Ms. T's Music Factory (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Gretchen Carlson: Breaking the Silence · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Love at First Flight (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Married at First Sight: Jamie and Doug Plus One (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | You Can't Turn That Into A House (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | A Question of Love (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | My Floating Home (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Nicole & Jionni's Shore Flip (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Zombie House Flipping (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Unplugged Nation (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Man vs. Child: Chef Showdown (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Seven Year Switch (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | What the Fung?! (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Say It to My Face (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Arranged (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Backyard Takeover (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Married at First Sight: The First Year (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | B.O.R.N. to Style (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | World Food Championships (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Married at First Sight (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Kim of Queens (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Chasing Nashville (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Double Divas (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | The Houstons: On Our Own (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Prom Queens (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | The Week the Women Went (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Dance Moms: Miami (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | 24 Hour Catwalk (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Project Runway All Stars (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | America's Supernanny (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Project Accessory (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Picker Sisters (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Roseanne's Nuts (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Dance Moms (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Love Handles (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Royal Wedding of a Lifetime (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Glamour Belles (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | One Born Every Minute (US) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Seriously Funny Kids (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | The Fairy Jobmother (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Lobstermen (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Doing DaVinci (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Wreckreation Nation (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Investigation X (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Verminators (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | High School Confidential (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Dirty Jobs (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Project Runway (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | For Better or for Worse (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | MythBusters (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Married at First Sight: Unmatchables (TV Series) · as Executive Producer: Lifetime |
| 2019 | Cheerleader Generation (TV Series) · as Executive Producer: Lifetime |
| 2018 | Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After? (TV Series) · as Executive Producer: Lifetime |
| 2018 | Married At First Sight: Honeymoon Island (TV Series) · as Executive Producer: Lifetime |
| 2017 | American Beauty Star (TV Series) · as Executive Producer: Lifetime |
| 2007 | FBI's 10 Most Wanted · as Supervising Producer Of Development |
| 2005 | Supernanny (US) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer: Lifetime |
| 2002 | Mysterious Worlds (TV Series) · as Supervising Producer: Tlc |
| 1996 | Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (TV Series) · as Coordinating Producer |