Veteran TV producer Betsy Schechter has launched Storyville Entertainment, a full-service New York-based production company that will create content for TV, film, branded and multimedia outlets. Schechter, whose credits include producing A&E’s Paranormal State and the syndie dating show Shipmates, will serve as president of the new shingle, which already is in production on a music-based documentary series for MTV International and in development on nonscripted and scripted projects for A&E, TNT, H2, MTV International, Animal Planet and National Geographic. It also is collaborating on a scripted series with Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum. Caroline Christopher, formerly director of development for National Geographic Television and among those who helped launch Peacock Productions, has been hired as VP Development and Production. She will oversee Storyville’s development team, creating nonfiction series, specials and branded content. “Storyville serves as a hub for creativity regardless of the genre and platform,...
- 3/6/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
As no TV event can truly be said to have happened unless Chris Hardwick is there to talk about it, the series finale of Futurama will be legitimized with a pre- and post-show discussion hosted by Hardwick on Sept. 4. In the two half-hour episodes that will stream live on Comedy Central's Futurama page and the Nerdist YouTube channel, Hardwick—currently the host of The Nerdist, The Talking Dead, Talking Bad, and Talking To Some Dick Who Keeps Bringing Up Shipmates—will similarly preside over a panel that includes series creator Matt Groening and executive producer David X. Cohen ...
- 8/29/2013
- avclub.com
BBC America has become so enamored of Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist specials that it’s turning the podcast adaptation into a full-blown show, giving Hardwick 10 episodes (to start) in which he can continue to talk about pop culture and be grateful that he stuck with this whole TV hosting thing, even through Shipmates. (Still not granted a TV series order: Our podcast devoted to Shipmates.) The newly expanded, new-fancy-set-boasting Nerdist will premiere in the spring, kicking off the network’s “Supernatural Saturday” programming block that includes Hardwick-favorite Doctor Who as well as Being Human. And this announcement follows the ...
- 12/19/2012
- avclub.com
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