Holly Hines is the Co-CEO and Founder of Happy Accidents, a new studio specializing in films, scripted and unscripted series, and formats. The studio develops, finances, produces and distributes global content, and has extensive experience with entrepreneurial structures, including treaty co-productions. Hines currently serves as Executive Producer for the Netflix series phenomenon Ginny & Georgia. In its first 28 days, over 52 Million unique subscribers completed the first season, and the series was in the Top 10 most Googled shows in the world with over 1 Billion Tik Tok impressions. The first season went on to break the record for the longest consecutive days in First Place on Netflix's Global Top 10 Ratings. The second season premiered January 2023 and broke into the Top 10 Netflix premieres of all time, beating the premieres of STRANGER THINGS Seasons 1 & 2.
Hines previously served as the Head of Network Development for Spotify Studios. In her role, Hines was responsible for procuring all scripted fiction and unscripted content on the platform, which had a global audience of more than 248 Million monthly active users, and executed their implementation across Gimlet, The Ringer, Parcast and Spotify Studios. Prior to joining Spotify, Hines was Senior Vice President at Dynamic Television where she
created the strategic vision and growth roadmap for content across the US, UK, Canada and Australian markets. Hines formed and led a high performing development and sales team that maintained domestic and international relationships with 20+ production and co-production partners resulting in selling to domestic and international buyers, including Netflix, Showtime, NBC, YouTube, Syfy and Australia's ABC hit TROPPO. Before Dynamic, Hines served as Senior Vice President, Scripted Programming for Participantmedia’s Network Pivot where she created new business models and financing solutions, leading to the co-production and development of original series including FORTITUDE with Sky and International Emmy Nominated PLEASE LIKE ME with ABC.
Other notable engagements include FremantleMedia North America, TLC, Bull’s Eye Entertainment and Reveille. Hines has developed, packaged and produced more than a dozen hit television series including NBC’s THE OFFICE, ABC’s UGLY BETTY, Showtime’s TUDORS, TLC’s TRADING SPACES, TLC’s AMERICAN CHOPPER, NBC’s THE BIGGEST LOSER, MTV’s DATE MY MOM, F/X’s 30 DAYS, Starz’s CRASH and USA’s NASHVILLE STAR. A native of Louisiana, Hines is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, completed McKinsey & Co’s Management program and has an International Baccalaureate from Leysin American School, Switzerland.