Exclusive: Anonymous Content is aggressively bolstering its unscripted television slate with a slew of new projects including music, sports, cooking, dating and documentary series.
The company has unveiled an unscripted and non-fiction development slate featuring seven projects. It comes after the hire of former NBCUniversal exec Jessica Grimshaw as SVP of Unscripted Films, Television and Podcasts last April.
Projects include The Balloon World Cup, based on a real-life contest organized by Barcelona legend Gerard Piqué, medical scam series Death Brokers, Deepfake Dating, an adaptation of food book Gastro Obscura, Lance Bangs’ music series I Don’t Belong Here, Billie Jd Porter’s It’s Different for Girls and a project about Factitious Disease Disorder (full details below).
Dawn Olmstead, David Levine and Grimshaw will executive produce the projects for Anonymous Content.
“We’re working with a world class group of directors, producers and journalists to develop unscripted projects around compelling characters,...
The company has unveiled an unscripted and non-fiction development slate featuring seven projects. It comes after the hire of former NBCUniversal exec Jessica Grimshaw as SVP of Unscripted Films, Television and Podcasts last April.
Projects include The Balloon World Cup, based on a real-life contest organized by Barcelona legend Gerard Piqué, medical scam series Death Brokers, Deepfake Dating, an adaptation of food book Gastro Obscura, Lance Bangs’ music series I Don’t Belong Here, Billie Jd Porter’s It’s Different for Girls and a project about Factitious Disease Disorder (full details below).
Dawn Olmstead, David Levine and Grimshaw will executive produce the projects for Anonymous Content.
“We’re working with a world class group of directors, producers and journalists to develop unscripted projects around compelling characters,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Usg Audio, the podcast division of Universal Studio Group, is ramping up its slate with two new series.
The company, which was previously known as UCP Audio, is launching Close to Death hosted by comedian Utkarsh Ambudkar, and a second season of The Followers.
The shows form part of the nascent division’s audio slate, which has included Alligator Candy, Loot: Scandalous Stories of the Art World, The Greatness with Kareem Maddox and The Lost Kids. The idea is to use its audio stories as a development tool across its TV units, a move that has already seen UCP developing a docuseries around Josh Bloch’s The Lost Kids.
The Followers: Madness of Two, which will be released on September 15, asks how did a perfect suburban mom get wrapped up with doomsday preppers and prophets? It will tell the story of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell and what drew...
The company, which was previously known as UCP Audio, is launching Close to Death hosted by comedian Utkarsh Ambudkar, and a second season of The Followers.
The shows form part of the nascent division’s audio slate, which has included Alligator Candy, Loot: Scandalous Stories of the Art World, The Greatness with Kareem Maddox and The Lost Kids. The idea is to use its audio stories as a development tool across its TV units, a move that has already seen UCP developing a docuseries around Josh Bloch’s The Lost Kids.
The Followers: Madness of Two, which will be released on September 15, asks how did a perfect suburban mom get wrapped up with doomsday preppers and prophets? It will tell the story of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell and what drew...
- 9/10/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Behind the Music producer Greg Heller has signed a development deal with Wilshire Studios, the unscripted production arm of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, to develop and produce original unscripted projects. Heller's reality television projects include Hip Hop Babylon (MTV), 7 Deadly Hollywood Sins (E!), Celebrity Fit Club (VH1), as well as the VH1 music themed docu-series Ultimate Albums and Behind the Music. "Greg Heller is an outstanding talent with years of…...
- 3/13/2017
- Deadline TV
Move over, Joel McHale, Daniel Tosh and Rob Dyrdek: Shaquille O'Neal is taking the video clip show to new heights. TruTV's Upload With Shaquille O'Neal (Thursdays, 10:30/9:30c) features the former NBA star and comedians Gary Owen (Think Like A Man) and Godfrey (The Mr. Men Show) as they showcase funny online videos, as well as make their own viral videos and pull various pranks. O'Neal and his executive producer, Greg Heller, took time out to explain why we should keep up with Upload...
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- 3/28/2013
- by Michael Schneider
- TVGuide - Breaking News
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