Jamie Tarses

Tarses was co-producer of My Boys, a comedy television show about a female sports reporter starring Jordana Spiro, on TBS cable television network from November 28, 2006 until September 14, 2010. In 2010, Tarses executive produced several television series including Mr. Sunshine, Happy Endings, and Franklin & Bash.

In 2005, Tarses went into partnership on a production company called Pariah Productions with producer Gavin Polone.

Tarses was the subject of a noteworthy "unflattering profile" written by Lynn Hirschberg in the New York Times Magazine in July 1997 in which Tarses "was portrayed as an embattled executive whose competence and professionalism was being questioned in Hollywood show business circles."

She left NBC in 1996 amidst a significant amount of press. From 1996 to 1999, Tarses was President of ABC Entertainment.

Tarses married DreamWorks SKG television executive Dan McDermott in 1993. They divorced in 1996.

In 1991, Tarses passed on her father's pilot about jazz musicians called Baltimore."

In September 1987, Tarses was hired by NBC Productions' Brandon Tartikoff as Manager, Creative Affairs. Tarses steadily worked in various advancing executive positions at NBC until 1996. At NBC, Tarses helped develop Friends and Mad About You.

Tarses graduated from Williams College in 1985. She received a degree in theater.

After graduating from college, Tarses became an Assistant to the Talent Executive on the 1985-1986 season of Saturday Night Live. She then went on to work as a Casting Director for Lorimar Productions.

Sara James Tarses (born March 19, 1964) is a television producer and former television studio executive. Tarses was the President of ABC Entertainment from 1996 to 1999, the first woman and one of the youngest people to hold such a post in an American broadcast network.