Not long after Bravo canceled Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2007, the show’s creators thought their showbiz careers were over. Despite masterminding one of the 21st century’s seminal reality TV hits, David Collins, Rob Eric and Michael Williams — the team behind Scout Productions, founded in 1994 as a scrappy indie film outfit based out of Boston — were struggling to find another hit now that they’d been rebranded as unscripted lifestyle guys. “In 2004, we won an Oscar for The Fog of War and an Emmy for Queer Eye,” Collins says. “Two years after that, we could not get arrested. There was a moment where I was like, ‘All right, am I going to become a barista?’ “
Today, Scout is one of the most prolific nonfiction development companies in Hollywood — all thanks to a call Collins received in 2016 from WME agent Nir Caspi looking to shop titles that would...
Today, Scout is one of the most prolific nonfiction development companies in Hollywood — all thanks to a call Collins received in 2016 from WME agent Nir Caspi looking to shop titles that would...
- 6/16/2023
- by Matthew Jacobs
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Xg Productions, the company behind Fox’s reboot of America’s Most Wanted, has struck a first-look deal with CBS Studios and has set its first project – a TV adaptation of its Audible original series Call Me God in the works at Paramount+.
The company, which was set up by former FBI agents, Jim and Tim Clemente, is turning the audiobook story, about their role in the DC Sniper investigation, into a scripted series for the fledgling streamer.
The Clemente brothers are attached to write alongside NCIS: Los Angeles showrunner R. Scott Gemmill with Charmed and Dynasty exec producer Brad Silberling set to direct the pilot.
Xg will produce with CBS Studios as part of their new first-look deal that will see the company develop and produce premium content in both the scripted and unscripted space.
They have an emphasis on the crime genre, leveraging the company’s deep law enforcement expertise,...
The company, which was set up by former FBI agents, Jim and Tim Clemente, is turning the audiobook story, about their role in the DC Sniper investigation, into a scripted series for the fledgling streamer.
The Clemente brothers are attached to write alongside NCIS: Los Angeles showrunner R. Scott Gemmill with Charmed and Dynasty exec producer Brad Silberling set to direct the pilot.
Xg will produce with CBS Studios as part of their new first-look deal that will see the company develop and produce premium content in both the scripted and unscripted space.
They have an emphasis on the crime genre, leveraging the company’s deep law enforcement expertise,...
- 4/16/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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