Rose Catherine Pinkney

Rose Catherine Pinkney is a versatile, senior level creative executive who has been both a buyer and a seller having worked for networks, studios, and independent production companies. She has developed content in the scripted arena including TV and movies,  as well as the unscripted arena.

Rose Catherine is currently the Senior Vice President, Scripted Programming and Development at BET/BET+.  As head of scripted development for the Original Programming department, she is charged with developing scripted content for the network and its sister streamer BET+.  She oversees the critically acclaimed darkly comedic drama, Average Joe, starring Deon Cole -which garnered the network’s first national reviews.  In the past few years, her work on the sitcom The Ms. Pat show saw the network receive its first primetime Emmy nominations.  Beyond development, Rose Catherine also oversees current productions for the company.   During her tenure she and her team have developed and/or covered a multitude of new projects and returning shows including the Kingdom Business, First Wives Club, Family Business, Black Hamptons, Bigger, Twenties, Real Husbands of Hollywood, The New Edition Story miniseries, Being Mary Jane series and the finale movie, and The Comedy Get Down.  Rose Catherine has also managed co-productions with international and domestic partners.

Before BET, Rose Catherine consulted for ABC Network’s Current Department where she covered shows including returning hits The Goldbergs and Fresh Off the Boat as well as several freshmen shows.

Rose Catherine also served as the EVP, Programming & Production at then nascent TV One. As such, she was charged with formulating the programming philosophy, defining the network’s brand, managing numerous departments, and making all programming decisions. Rose Catherine greenlit TV One’s enduring signature series, Unsung, leading the network to nab its first set of NAACP Image Awards. As the head of programming at this then start-up, she developed many of the networks firsts- including talk shows, stand-up comedy competitions and docuseries. 

Prior to TV One, Rose Catherine served as SVP and Head of Comedy Development at Paramount Network Television where she managed an A-list roster of overall deals and sold projects across the networks. Stints as a development executive at TV Land where she worked on series including the critically acclaimed Younger, Laurence Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Productions, Uptown Entertainment where she developed New York Undercover, and Twentieth Fox Television where she covered such hits as In Living Color and ran the Writer Trainee program, round out her career. Between TV jobs, Rose Catherine developed and co-produced the popular romantic comedy movie Def Jam’s How To Be A Player; released by Island Pictures/Polygram as well as a Hallmark movie, The Wedding Planner Mysteries.

Highly regarded by her peers, this Princeton University graduate and UCLA Anderson School of Management, MBA is known for her creative abilities, business acumen and her leadership skills. In addition, Rose Catherine is very committed to giving back to the community.  Consequently, she serves on the board of several nonprofits and as a mentor with several industry organizations.