Maggini named joins Lifetime movie unit

A+E Networks has named Tia Maggini as VP, original movies at cable channel Lifetime.

Based out of Los Angeles, she will report to Tanya Lopez, Lifetime’s senior VP, original movies.

Maggini was most recently VP, television at Josephson Entertainment, where she was responsible for developing shows such as AMC’s Turn. She also had stints at Marc Platt Productions and Red Wagon Entertainment, the latter where she worked on feature films Memoirs of a Geisha and Jarhead.

She will now work in a division at has recently had success with Flowers in the Attic, Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, Petals on the Wind and The Gabby Douglas Story, which are among the top movie cable telecasts of this year.