[3] She most recently served as the head of the television arm of Laurence Fishburne's production company, Cinema Gypsy.
[5] She points to her parents' marriage, which as of 2008[update] had lasted 56 years, as her model of personal values that she has carried through life.
[8] While director of programming at Twentieth Century Fox, she developed series such as The X-Files and supervised In Living Color for four years.
[6] As department head, her responsibilities included identifying writers, directors, talent and ideas for comedy series for television.
[6] She was hired at TV One, which is the second-oldest and second-largest black television network behind BET,[10] in December 2005,[9] and she started in January 2006.
[5][11] When UPN and WB merged to form CW in September 2006 prior to the 2006–07 United States network television season, several of the African-American-themed sitcoms that Pinkney had developed while at Paramount were short-lived.