Hilary Estey McLoughlin is an Emmy Award-winning television producer and executive. Her 30-year track record includes developing many of syndication’s longest-running and most profitable broadcast franchises, as well as building groundbreaking multiplatform iconic brands.

Hilary is currently serving as Senior Executive Producer of The View and Nonfiction Content for ABC News and Lincoln Square Productions, where she oversees the development of new multiplatform series. Under her leadership, The View is having its most watched season in three years and has become a leading voice in the cultural conversation.

Hilary is also an Executive Producer of A&E’s new legal talk series, Grace vs. Abrams, with Nancy Grace and Dan Abrams, which is premiering on 3/29 at 10pm. The six-episode series will spotlight the duo’s epic legal battles and provocative and highly entertaining points of view, as they debate infamous crimes and legal cases.

Prior to joining ABC News, Hilary served as President of Creative Affairs for CBS Television Distribution. There, she was tasked with overseeing all first-run syndicated programming and marketing, including developing new series and evolving their current programming roster. Her purview included franchises such as Judge Judy, Rachael Ray, and Inside Edition. She also spearheaded the relaunch of Entertainment Tonight and started up and staffed The Late Late Show with James Corden.

Hilary joined CBS from Warner Bros., where she had served as President of Telepictures Productions since 2006, overseeing all aspects of the company, including developing and launching its award-winning and leading edge programming.

Throughout her 27-year tenure at Telepictures, Hilary helped attract some of television's top talent and producers to the studio, shepherding such successful and enduring programs as the Emmy Award-winning Ellen,  Extra, Judge Mathis, The People's Court, TMZ, the first cross-platform media success, and was a reality television pioneer developing Taxicab Confessions for HBO. She was instrumental in the development and launch of The Rosie O'Donnell Show, on which she served two Emmy Award-winning seasons as Executive Producer, as well as The Tyra Banks Show and Jenny Jones. She also oversaw the Fox summer talk show test of The Real, which successfully launched into syndication in the fall of 2014. Telepictures won an industry-leading 80 Emmy Awards with Hilary at the helm.

Under Hilary’s leadership, Ellen was established as a leading digital and social media force and is one of the world’s top brands among Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube followers. Ellen was the first syndicated show to spawn iPhone/iPad Apps, created by the show’s producers based on popular game segments Know or Go and Heads Up. Hilary also led Telepictures into cross-platform success with the launch of TMZ, catapulting the iconic brand into the coveted role of most cited entertainment news source in the world. During her tenure, the digital brand was extended into two syndicated television shows, TMZ and TMZ Live, TMZ Bus Tours in Los Angeles and New York, and TMZ Radio with SiriusXM and Premiere Networks.

Estey McLoughlin has held a spot on The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment: Power 100 list five times. Additionally, she has been featured in Variety’s 2017 Women’s Impact Report and Variety’s The New Power New York List in 2016.

She started her career as a research analyst at television advertising rep firm Seltel before joining the Lorimar-Telepictures research department.

Hilary holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcasting and Film from Boston University. She resides in New York with her husband and daughter.