With over 20 years in television production and development, Gerette Allegra’s career has amassed a wide range of experience in network, cable and syndicated reality television programming.

Allegra is currently serving as Senior Vice President, Development and Programming and Executive Producer for domestic and international television for Hoff Productions. Based in New York, Allegra is responsible for applying her vast experience and keen eye for identifying and developing talent to all program development for Hoff, whose extensive production roster includes several celebrated series such as National Geographic Channel’s “Hooked,” Investigation Discovery’s “Extreme Forensics,” Animal Planet’s “Weird, True & Freaky,” while at the same time, broadening the company’s slate in the area of female-oriented programming.

Allegra just recently completed a project as executive producer for the television series, “Pregnant in Heels,” a show scheduled to broadcast early next year on Bravo that features mommy concierge/fashion designer Rosie Pope and targets sophisticated urban mothers. Prior to that Allegra served as Vice President of Programming for SPT, where she was responsible for all of Sony’s New-York based development and production for 11 years, including the staffing, creative direction, budgeting and production of all New York shows. Allegra was directly responsible for supervising all of the production and creative episode content of “The Ricki Lake Show,” and also hand-picked each judge in SPT’s much heralded courtshow block and turned it into a successful and profitable franchise. Prior to SPT, Allegra spent two years as Director of Development for New World Entertainment under the leadership of Brandon Tartikoff, and was part of the team which developed the highly successful entertainment news program, “Access Hollywood.”