Pat Mitchell

Pat Mitchell is president of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television and is executive producer, with Jeremy Isaacs, of the MILLENNIUM series.

She is responsible for developing, commissioning and supervising original, nonfiction programming projects for CNN, TBS Superstation and other Turner and Time Warner networks and businesses. She also has responsibility for developing and supervising new television extensions of Time Inc. magazines and brands. Mitchell is a member of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc. executive committee and the CNN executive committee.

Under Mitchell's direction during the past five years, her division has produced some 500 hours of acclaimed documentaries and specials, including "A Century of Women," "Moon Shot," "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream," "The Coming Plague," and "Dying to Tell the Story," as well as "National Geographic EXPLORER," "Wild!Life Adventure" specials and other natural history and environmental programming. Documentaries produced under Mitchell's direction have won more than 100 major awards, including 41 Emmys, seven Peabodys and 35 CableACEs.

For CNN, Mitchell is executive producer of two other groundbreaking documentary series: the Peabody Award-winning, 24-part "Cold War" and the 10-part "Celebrate the Century." In addition, Mitchell is executive producer of CNN/U.S.'s Sunday night documentary series, CNN Perspectives, and a monthly series on CNN International under the same banner and anchored by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

Mitchell came to TBS Inc. in December 1992 from VU Productions, an independent production company based at Paramount Studios. Under that banner, she created and developed reality series, specials and documentaries, including "Women in War: Voices from the Front Lines" for A&E, "Shattered Lullabies" for Lifetime and "Workforce 2000" for ABC.

During her television career, Mitchell has worked for all three broadcast networks, as well as for several cable television channels, both in front of and behind the cameras. She was a correspondent for NBC's "Today" program, where she was a substitute host for Jane Pauley. She also was the arts correspondent for CBS' "Sunday Morning" and was a producer/reporter for ABC's "Home" show, as well as for the nationally syndicated "Hour Magazine." Mitchell was the first woman to host her own national talk program, "Woman to Woman," which she created and executive-produced out of her own company. In 1984, she won an Emmy for "Woman to Woman" for Best Daytime Talk Program.

Mitchell is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia, with bachelor's and master's degrees in English.