34. Janice Marinelli

Longtime Disney vet Marinelli likes to keep things cooking -- whether setting up syndication debuts for "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" or by tackling work-related stress by hanging around a hot stove at home several nights a week. This past year, she helped launch Disney Family Movies, a subscription VOD service, on Charter Communications. The Disney-ABC Domestic division distributed the epic fantasy "Legend of the Seeker," the first scripted series made directly for syndication in many years. It was a risky move, but Marinelli thought the pot needed stirring: "We felt it had tremendous franchise potential, and that there was an opportunity in the marketplace," she explains. Since the show found a home in 95% of the country's markets, it sounds like she got the mix just right. Up next: guiding the spread of the VOD service, and setting up "Grey's Anatomy" and "Supernanny" for their syndie debuts.