2 longtime TV execs at Sony to quit

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s management shake-up continued with the resignations of two well-respected television executives from the studio behind such hits as

Better Call Saul and Shark Tank.

Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, who both had been president of television programming and production, will leave the studio this summer, Sony Pictures Entertainment Chief Executive Officer Tony Vinciquerra said in a memo to staff.

Van Amburg and Erlicht have worked for Sony Pictures for 15 years.

Studio insiders for months have wondered whether the pair would stay because Sony was not conducting contract negotiations to keep them, and their employment deals were set to expire by September. Typically, executives renegotiate their contracts about a year before they expire.

But Sony Pictures has been consumed by management turmoil for more than a year. Vinciquerra took over as CEO June 1 after a lengthy search to find a replacement for Michael Lynton, the longtime studio chief, who announced his departure in January.

Sony’s longtime television boss, Steve Mosko, left a year ago, and since then Erlicht and Van Amburg have run the studio’s programming division, which is responsible for such shows as The Crown for Netflix, The Goldbergs for ABC, Outlander for Starz and Kevin Can Wait for CBS.

No immediate replacement for the executives was named.