Netflix Bolsters Unscripted Team With Former Westbrook & NBC Exec Sahara Bushue

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is staffing up its unscripted division.

Sahara Bushue, who was previously head of unscripted at Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios and more notably spent nearly 13 years at NBC, has joined Brandon Riegg’s team. She is a director of unscripted series.

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Bushue had been consulting for the streamer for many months but recently closed a deal to join the company on a permanent basis.

Given that she was previously SVP, Alternative Development and Current at NBC, where she worked on shows such as America’s Got Talent, Ellen’s Game of Games, World of Dance, Little Big Shots, and Hollywood Game Night, she brings experience of shiny-floor stage formats, social experiment, game shows to the streamer, which has been moving further into these genres, as well as live, which is a new area for Netflix.

Between November 2020 and March 2023, she was SVP and Head of Unscripted Television for Westbrook Studios, where she led its slate including such as Netflix’s African Queens and Nat Geo/Disney+’s Pole to Pole, which is a sequel to Welcome to Earth.

Before that, she worked her way up at NBC, starting as part of its page program, before becoming a coordinator, manager, director, VP and eventually SVP.

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