Mid-May 2026

Kelly Goode is a senior entertainment creative executive with deep experience in television series current programming and development. She most recently served as Senior Vice President & Team Leader, Current Programming, at Warner Bros. Television (WBTV), the entertainment industry’s largest provider of original scripted programming for streaming platforms, premium cable, and the broadcast networks. In this capacity, Goode was responsible for day-to-day programming activities on numerous one-hour and half-hour scripted series and worked closely with many of the Studio’s most influential producers.

In this role, Goode oversaw series such as BRILLIANT MINDS and SUPERMAN & LOIS, from Berlanti Productions; BOB♥ABISHOLA, BOOKIE, and YOUNG SHELDON, from Chuck Lorre Productions; PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN from Roberto Aguirre Sacasa’s Muckle Man Productions and Alloy Entertainment; the upcoming JUST CAUSE, starring and executive produced by Scarlett Johansson; and more.

Prior to her promotion to SVP, Goode was Vice President, Current Programming, WBTV, from 2015–2020. During her tenure, Goode worked on series such as RIVERDALE, WESTWORLD, BATWOMAN, DC’s LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, DC’s STARGIRL, THE FLASH, GOSSIP GIRL, THE KOMINSKY METHOD, KUNG FU, LEGACIES, PEACEMAKER, SHRILL, and TITANS, among others.

Before joining WBTV, Goode was Vice President, Original Programming, at ABC Family (now Freeform), overseeing the current programming department. She began her executive career at Columbia Pictures Television and then moved on to CBS Entertainment, first as an executive in the comedy development department and then as Vice President, CBS Productions. Later, Goode was named Senior Vice President, Programming, at Lifetime Television, as part of the team that launched the network’s first original scripted series.

Goode has been involved in many professional and civic organizations. She is a board member of the “I Have A Dream” Foundation-Los Angeles and serves on the Advisory Council of the Hollywood Radio & Television Society (HRTS). She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and has been a long-time judge for The Humanitas Prize. She has also been named to industry leadership lists, including Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, and Black Enterprise.

Goode received her Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) with honors from Harvard College.

Producer, Writer and Director Joe Russo is a three-time BloodList screenwriter whose recent feature film credits include the Mickey Rourke-starring horror anthology NIGHTMARE CINEMA, the Lifetime thriller THE AU PAIR NIGHTMARE, the Bruce Willis-starring HARD KILL, the Ryan Phillippe, Ving Rhames and Kate Bosworth-starring THE LOCKSMITH, the Neal McDonough-starring SOUL MATES, the Zac Efron and Russell Crowe-starring THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER and the upcoming horror film THE INHERITANCE starring Peyton List and Bob Gunton. In the podcast space, Russo produces the award-winning horror series POST MORTEM with Mick Garris.

Wendy Kram is a producer and one of the industry’s leading script consultants. She is the founder of L.A. For Hire, an international consulting company that specializes in acquiring IP, developing scripts, packaging them with talent and directors and matching them with production companies, studios, streaming providers, networks and cable companies.

Wendy currently serves as an executive and producing partner at Reuben Cannon Productions, overseeing development for features and televisions series in partnership with DISNEY +, Oprah Winfrey’s HARPO FILMS, TRIBECA, and FOREST WHITAKER’S SIGNIFICANT PICTURES, among others.  She is also producing a new feature film written by Rocaberti alumni, Carrie Wachob.

Previously, Wendy served as Vice President for UK’s media conglomerate Granada Entertainment, where she oversaw development and international co-productions. She was an executive for production companies based at Sony, Disney and Universal, developing and producing projects that received Humanitas, NAACP, WGA, and Golden Globe Awards, starring actors such as Sissy Spacek, Helen Mirren, Robert DeNiro, Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes, to name a few. Past credits include MAD MONEY directed by Oscar-winning writer/director Callie Khouri (THELMA & LOUISE) and SALLY HEMINGS: AN AMERICAN SCANDAL for CBS, which won the WGA award for outstanding writing in a miniseries.

Wendy also manages a small group of screenwriters and filmmakers, including John W. Richardson, who wrote the action blockbuster NON-STOP for Universal, which starred Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore and Lupita Nyong’o.

Wendy graduated Cum Laude from Columbia University in New York City. She has been a guest speaker and conducted film and television workshops at Harvard University, USC School of Cinematic Arts, UCLA and NYU Tisch. Creative Screenwriting Magazine ranks Wendy as one of the industry’s top script consultants.

Prior to co-founding the management/production company Fictional Entity in January 2017, Chris Deckard spent over seven years working with and representing talent at major agencies such as ICM Partners and WME. He has worked closely with traditional and new media buyers to find and develop content for domestic and international audiences. In addition to helping cast and package numerous features and series, he has evaluated thousands of scripts for actors and directors. Chris graduated from Cornell University and earned his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School.

Fictional Entity’s clients have been named to The Black List, The Hit List, The Young & Hungry List, The Blood List and been lauded by the PAGE Awards, the International Emmys and placed as finalists in The Heath Ledger Scholarship and the Academy Nicholl Fellowship The Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Awards, the AWG, ADG, SPA, and AACTA. Clients have written, directed, starred, and produced in numerous formats, including features, TV, virtual reality, and podcasts, independently and for companies like Netflix, NBCUniversal, AMC, Legendary, Meta, Marvel, Fremantle, SyFy, the CW, Warner Bros., Amazon, Blumhouse, Comedy Central, BBC, the ABC Australia, Foxtel, TruTV, Super Deluxe, Hallmark, CBS, Lifetime, E!, and MSNBC.

Chris has advised clients through multiple successful series pilot and pitch sales. He and his business partner were non-writing Executive Producers on a series pilot that sold to a major US network in 2021. In 2024, Fictional Entity client highlights include: a book-to-series pitch sale to Netflix, a first-time writer/director’s feature film entering production, the release of three series from first-time writing Executive Producers, and a feature film release.