Versant , the Comcast-backed cable spin-off, has a new entertainment talent chief.

The company has hired Liz Melcher as Vice President, Talent Strategy for Entertainment. Melcher joins from Warner Bros. Discovery, where she most recently served as the Group Vice President of Talent Management and Strategy for its U.S. Networks.

Melcher will oversee all talent management, recruitment, and development initiatives across the company’s entertainment businesses, which include USA Network, Syfy, E! and Oxygen.

At WBD, she oversaw on-air talent across ID, Discovery, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, TNT, TBS, OWN and Cartoon Network.

Before that, she was an independent casting director with Powell Melcher Casting and began her career in the casting department of The Greenblatt Janollari Studio in L

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