Senior Executive Producer

Known as one of the most respected news magazine producers in the country, Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey serves as Senior Executive Producer of the nationally syndicated "Extra." The popular show is currently in its milestone 18th season, now broadcasting coast-to-coast on location from The Grove in Los Angeles and Times Square in New York City. In her position at Telepictures Productions, she works on the development of new television series, utilizing "Extra" as a lab to create and nest other original content and programming.

Gregorisch-Dempsey created and will serve as Executive Producer of "Dr. Drew's Lifechangers," a daily, half-hour, studio-based show hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky, one of America's foremost experts on addiction, relationships and medicine. Gregorisch-Dempsey developed and incubated the series as a recurring segment on "Extra" and as half-hour specials on the weekend edition of "Extra." The series will launch in fall 2011 on The CW Network.
"Dr. Drew's Lifechangers" is a broad, solution-driven show packed with tools to help viewers improve every area of their lives. Dr. Drew and his panel of Lifechangers -- experts and America's top specialists in relationships and sex, addiction, diet and fitness, health and wellness, medical breakthroughs, personal finance, plastic surgery and beauty -- will supply viewers with invaluable information they can use in their daily lives. The show will air in the 3-4pm afternoon block with an original episode in the first half-hour and a repeat in the second. In addition, Gregorisch-Dempsey currently serves as Consulting Producer on VH1's "Mario Lopez: Saved by the Baby," the new docu-series chronicling "Extra" Host Mario Lopez's journey into fatherhood.

Gregorisch-Dempsey also co-created and will executive produce "H8R," a bold and original new reality show premiering in the Fall of 2011, Wednesday nights at 8 on The CW. "H8R," hosted by Mario Lopez, brings celebrities face to face with people who hate them, taking them outside their comfort zone and giving the star one chance to turn them around! Cameras follow along as the unlikely pair goes through a gauntlet of challenging experiences together. It's funny, touching and wildly unpredictable!

During her tenure, Gregorisch-Dempsey has grown "Extra" into a multi-platform brand online and on the air. Gregorisch-Dempsey has launched successful spinoff franchises including "TBS Movie Extra" and "TBS Weekend Extra," the syndicated newsmagazine "Celebrity Justice," "Trendshopper" (a joint venture with HSN), and the Latin extension of "Extra," "Extra en Español." Gregorisch-Dempsey co-created and executive produced "CW Now," profiled in The Wall Street Journal as the first newsmagazine to integrate advertising with content.

Under her leadership, "Extra" entered into an exclusive partnership with Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, which gives "Extra" dominant access to stars there. The resort also houses the Extra Lounge and runs in-house "Extra" programming that reaches millions of hotel guests.
Prior to her position with Telepictures, Gregorisch-Dempsey served as VP of News for the Fox Television Stations Group, where she was responsible for the hiring of on-air talent and news directors for 22 Fox owned-and-operated stations' news departments, as well as the creation of original sweeps programming. Prior to Fox, she served as Executive Producer for the top-rated, nationally syndicated show "Hard Copy." She was also the Senior Executive Producer for the half-hour show that chronicled celebrities and their legal woes, "Celebrity Justice."

Gregorisch-Dempsey has successfully run news operations in major markets nationwide, including New York, the most competitive market in the United States. In only 18 months, in her role as Vice President and News Director of WNYW-TV in New York, Gregorisch-Dempsey led the station to its best news ratings in over a decade. She has worked in seven markets throughout the United States in a variety of management positions. Highlights include serving as Vice President and News Director for KDAF-TV in Dallas and KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City, and as Executive Producer for KDFW-TV in Dallas, where she led the 10 pm news broadcast to time-period victory for the first time in several years. Gregorisch-Dempsey met similar success at KUSA-TV in Denver, where she served as Managing Editor and Executive Producer. She began her career in Miami, where she worked for seven years at WTVJ-TV as a reporter, producer and bureau chief.

In 2005, Gregorisch-Dempsey was honored by Lupus L.A. with the Woman of Achievement Award. Gregorisch-Dempsey is a graduate of Springfield College in Massachusetts and currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Gary Dempsey.