Petrie oversees TV moviemaking. Courtesy Katherine Petrie WHEN SHE WAS an accountant, Katherine Petrie used to brown-bag it. Yes, she's in Hollywood, land of the fabled power lunch.
Lunch is an important time to go see, be seen and get things done.
Petrie moved into the job just over a year ago after holding several other posts at CBS, including accountant and executive assistant to CEO Leslie Moonves. Most of her movies and miniseries begin as ideas pitched to Petrie and her colleagues by producers or writers. Fewer than one in 50 proposals move into the preproduction phase, which is when writers and cast are hired, followed by crew and staff. Of those projects, only about half make it into actual production. It's typically one to two years from the first pitch until the movie airs before some 24 million viewers in the nation's living rooms.