Netflix shakes up its TV staff: Cindy Holland, who led the streamer’s foray into original programming, is out after 18 years

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As Netflix's head of original programming, Holland is credited with helping change TV forever. Back when Netflix was a DVD-by-mail company in 2002, Holland and chief content officer Ted Sarandos set up a tiny office in Hollywood and worked to turn Netflix into an original series powerhouse. Sarandos, who was named co-CEO of Netflix this summer, decided to shake up the TV operations and have Bela Bajaria, who led Netflix's non-English TV programming, become the new vice president of Global TV for Netflix. “These kinds of changes are never easy, and I am enormously grateful to Cindy Holland for everything she has done over the last 18 years at Netflix – first licensing DVDs and then as the driving force behind our first eight years of English original series," Sarandos said in a statement. "Cindy’s been a great champion of creators and the power that comes from seeing more perspectives reflected on screen – launching enduring dramas like Orange Is the New Black, Stranger Things and The Crown. Most important of all she’s been a fabulous colleague. We wish her all the best for the future.”