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New York, NY - Home Box Office has elevated Carolyn Strauss and Sheila Nevins to the titles of president, HBO Entertainment and president, HBO Documentary and Family, respectively, announced Chris Albrecht, Chairman and CEO.

"Carolyn and Sheila have made extraordinary contributions to our programming over many years. Their creative instincts have been instrumental to our success and I wanted to acknowledge that with these promotions," said Albrecht.

Strauss is responsible for overseeing the development and production of miniseries, series, specials and late-night fare. In her career at HBO, she has supervised the development and production of HBO's acclaimed and award-winning series programming, including "The Sopranos," "Sex and the City," "Six Feet Under," "The Wire," "Carnivale," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "The Chris Rock Show," "Oz," "The Larry Sanders Show," "Arli$$," "Tracey Takes On," and in late night "Dennis Miller Live," "Def Comedy Jam," "Def Poetry," "Ali G," "The Kids in the Hall" and "Mr. Show." Strauss' former title was executive vice president, original programming. She joined HBO in 1986.

Nevins is responsible for overseeing the development and production of all documentaries and family programming for HBO and Cinemax and their multiplex channels. During her tenure, HBO's critically acclaimed documentary and family programs have won numerous awards including eighteen Prime Time Emmy Awards, thirty-two News and Documentary Emmys, eighteen George Foster Peabody Awards, including a Personal Peabody for her outstanding work in Documentary and Family Programming. She has also executive produced twelve Academy Award winning documentaries, including most recently "Murder on a Sunday Morning" (2001), "Big Mama" (2000), "King Gimp" (1999), and "The Personals" (1998). Nevins' former title was executive vice president, original programming. She has been with HBO since 1979.

The heads of HBO's other two programming divisions, HBO Films President Colin Callender and HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg, will continue to report into Mr. Albrecht.