Overview

• Parnell will oversee development and production across Paramount+’s slate of original programming.
• He reports to head of originals Jane Wiseman, with the streaming operation overseen by direct-to-consumer chief Cindy Holland.
• Parnell joins from Apple TV+, where he spent five years as a senior creative executive under Matt Cherniss.
• His Apple portfolio included scripted series such as Dark Matter, Neuromancer, The Last Frontier, Bad Monkey and Vince Gilligan’s upcoming Pluribus, along with Vision Pro projects Adventure and Bono: Stories of Surrender.
• He previously spent 16 years at Sony Pictures Television, rising to co-president, and coverage notes his genre focus that could inform work on Paramount franchises like Star Trek.