LINDSEY LIBERATORE

Executive Producer on “Walker”

 

 

Lindsey Liberatore is Executive Vice President of Television for Rideback, the film and television company founded by producer Dan Lin. Liberatore oversees all television production and development for the company, which has a broadcast deal at CBS Studios. 

Liberatore is currently in production on “Walker,” a reimagining of the popular CBS series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” starring Jared Padalecki, for CBS Studios and the CW, on which she serves as executive producer. She is in development and serves as executive producer on the AI drama “Burn-In” from Rob Doherty (“Elementary”) based on the novel of the same name by P.W. Singer and August Cole, for CBS Studios and CBS. She is also in pre-production on the live action series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” for Netflix.

Liberatore also helps oversee and serves as executive producer on projects from the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire, a writer program in partnership with CBS Studios that introduces experienced creative voices to broadcast television. Now in its second year, the program sold all three of its hour dramas for the 20/21 season: Gbenga Akinnagbe’s “Lewisburg” to NBC and Katrina O’Gilvie’s “Activation” and Jeff Buhler’s “Tempest,” to CBS.

Liberatore also helped to develop, in partnership with MRC, the Rideback TV Incubator, a writer residency program that financially and creatively supports TV drama writers from diverse backgrounds and helps them create their own original shows aimed at the cable and streaming space.

Prior to Rideback, Liberatore spent two years as Vice President for Sony Pictures Television’s boutique TriStar label where she worked in Development and Current Programming. Prior to her role at TriStar, Liberatore worked at Krysten Ritter’s Silent Machine Entertainment and Ryan Reynolds’ and Allan Loeb’s DarkFire TV. Her first job in television was at Film 44. She began her career in features at The Mark Gordon Company where she was based for six years.  

January 2021