
Pearlena Igbokwe is Chairman, Television Studios, NBC Entertainment & Peacock Scripted. She oversees NBC Entertainment, including scripted, unscripted, late-night, live events and specials, all scripted originals for Peacock and Universal Studio Group (USG). With her expanded purview Igbokwe now leads the teams responsible for notable programs such as “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Hacks,” “The Day of the Jackal,” Dick Wolf’s enormously successful “Law & Order,” “One Chicago” and “FBI”-branded series, “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” “America’s Got Talent,” “Based on a True Story,” “Suits LA,” “We Are Lady Parts,” “A Man on the Inside,” “The Americas” and “The Voice.” Since 2020, Igbokwe has served as Chairman of USG and its world-class library of television series from Universal Television, UCP, Universal International Studios and Universal Television Alternative Studio. The four television studios have produced more than 3,000 hours of programming airing or streaming around the globe. Under Igbokwe’s leadership, USG had #1 shows on Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Peacock and Hulu, as well as NBC, Sky and CBS. She and her team support a slate of ambitious storytellers, including Michael Schur, Tina Fey, Jordan Peele, Darren Star, Nahnatchka Khan, Seth MacFarlane, Julie Plec, Amy Poehler, Tanya Saracho, David Heyman, Lorne Michaels, Gareth Neame, Debra Martin Chase, Nick Antosca, Kevin Williamson, Sue Naegle and Dick Wolf, among numerous others.