Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 457th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporter's Awards podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is an executive

who became the first woman of color to ever run a Hollywood studio when she was appointed

president of Universal Television in August of 2011, a role she held until May of 2016.

She subsequently moved over to and is now the head of Global Television at Netflix, the

streaming service which is currently available in more than 190 countries, both 221 million

subscribers worldwide, and heads into the 74th Emmy Awards with 105 nominations, the

most of any content provider, save for HBO slash HBO Max.

Its most recognized program this year with 14 nominations is the Korean Dramatic Thriller

Squid Game, which has already made history by becoming the first show not in the English

language to ever land an Emmy nomination for Best Series, in its case Best Drama Series,

on the heels of becoming the most watch show in the history of Netflix, and it is at

the streamer in no small part because of the vision of this British-born woman of Indian

descent, who I might add, was recently named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential

People in the World for 2022, Bella, Baharia.

Over the course of our conversation, the 51-year-old and I discussed her early years, which were

split between England, Zambia, and the U.S., and how television helped her to learn

an American accent and American culture.

How she eventually broke into the business and climbed the ranks in Hollywood at a time

when virtually no other brown-skinned women occupied executive suites, and how she helped

to usher to fruition shows like the Mindy Project, Brooklyn 9.9, Bates Motel, Unbreakable

Kimmy Schmidt, and Master of None, all before even coming to Netflix in November of 2016,

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