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Propagate Content to distribute Fox Entertainment’s unscripted slate and formats
Ben Silverman and Howard Owens’s Propagate Content is set to distribute Fox Entertainment’s unscripted programmes…
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Propagate scores distribution deal with Complex
Ben Silverman and Howard Owen’s Propagate has picked up international rights to series from youth-skewing…
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Howard T. Owens spells out Propagate’s Asia ambitions
Ahead of his debut at the Asia TV Forum, Propagate Content co-founder Howard T. Owens…
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Propagate buys Electus, invests in Black-ish producer
Propagate Content has acquired Running Wild With Bear Grylls producer-distributor Electus from IAC, while taking a…
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All3Media America’s Lipstone lands at Propagate
Former All3Media America boss Greg Lipstone has joined Lore producer Propagate Content as president. The…
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Propagate appoints unscripted veteran to lead unit
US indie Propagate Content has hired Laurie Girion as executive VP of non-scripted content. Girion…
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Propagate gains backing from The Raine Group
Indie studio Propagate Content has secured “significant” financial investment from merchant bank The Raine Group….
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Propagate teams with Wachter to launch prodco
Propagate Content is teaming with executive producer and showrunner Charles Wachter to launch a new…
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TBI weekly round-up: Diana doc, Silverman’s Jamaican drama
TBI’s latest news round-up takes a look over some of the biggest deals, hires and…
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Propagate snags Colombian formats for the US
Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens indie Propagate will take Colombian shows into the US…
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What went down at NATPE Miami
NATPE welcomed the usual mix of buyers, sellers, programme-makers and hustlers to Miami last week….
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New McKillop prodco pacts with Sky Vision
Former A&E controller and Propagate Content co-founder David McKillop has resurfaced with a production pact…
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Electus exec starts sales unit for Silverman prodco
Electus International distribution veteran Cyrus Farrokh is joining former his bosses Ben Silverman and Howard…
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Propagate’s indie power play
Having been agents and then together at Reveille, Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens went…
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Propagate taking international formats to the US
Propagate is taking a telenovela from Argentina and a Turkish dating format into the US,…
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Walking Dead producer takes podcast horror to Amazon
Amazon has greenlit Lore, a horror anthology series based on the Aaron Mahnke podcast of…
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Paltrow, Will.I.Am. join Apple unscripted series
Actor Gwyneth Paltrow and singer Will.I.Am. have signed on to appear in and executive produce…
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Ben Silverman builds Propagate team
US prodco Propagate has added two execs to its ranks, bringing in Kevin Healey from…
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Ben Silverman’s Propagate staffs up
Propagate, the US prodco run by Ben Silverman and backed by A+E, has made a…
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A+E backs Ben Silverman at Propagate
Former Reveille, NBC and Electus exec Ben Silverman has joined Propagate Content, as the US…
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Five execs upped at Silverman’s Electus
The distribution arm of Ben Silverman’s IAC-backed content company Electus has promoted five of its…
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Electus, Marta Kauffman making US Doc Martin
Ben Silverman’s Electus and Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman are joining forces to make a US…
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Netflix goes straight-to-series with Will Arnett
Streaming service Netflix has greenlit an eight-episode, straight-to-series comedy from The Millers and Arrested Development…
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Electus cuts deal for ‘Chinese Fashion Star’
Electus has struck a Chinese deal for The Goddesses’ New Clothes, a format based on…
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson gets another TNT series
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is making another US cable series after TNT greenlit Wake Up…
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Eminem buys into Electus hip-hop channel
Rap megastar Eminem has bought into an YouTube original hip-hop lifestyle channel operated by Ben…
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Electus promotes Farrokh, sells 150 hours
Ben Silverman’s studio Electus has promoted international sales executive Cyrus Farrokh to VP, distribution, and…
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Electus poaches Henson for unscripted role
Ben Silverman’s multimedia studio Electus has hired ABC Entertainment alternative entertainment exec Corie Henson to…
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Ukrainian net serves up family cook off show
Ukrainian channel 1+1 has acquired Global Agency’s cookery format Rivals-in-Law. Furthermore, producer iMagic has optioned…
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Electus invests in former SPT exec’s prodco
US-based Electus has made a strategic investment into Hud:sun Media, a production and entertainment company…
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