News brief: Tremendous! expands to New York

US indie Tremendous! Entertainment has hired Andy Meyer to become its VP, development.

He was most recently at Jarrett Creative Group as head of development, but will now run a new East Coast operation at Tremendous!, which is behind Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.

Furthermore, Barron Whittet has joined as creative director, development. He has been a freelance producer and editor for the past five years.