US-based indie Propagate Content has acquired local rights to dating format Project Cupid from Belgian distribution company Be-Entertainment. The format, which helps people with unique mental challenges find love, originally aired on Flemish channel VTM last year, with a second season already commissioned. John de Mol’s Talpa Network has also ordered a local Dutch series […]
Ben Silverman and Howard Owens’s Propagate Content is set to distribute Fox Entertainment’s unscripted programmes for global. Under the deal, Propagate will take out the fledgling unscripted studio’s shows, as well as format rights worldwide, excluding the US and Canada. Included in the deal are programme sales and format rights for Fox’s unscripted summer series […]
Propagate strikes production deal with Antoine Fuqua US indie studio Propagate Content has struck an overall production deal with Training Day and The Magnificent Seven director Antoine Fuqua and his prodco Fuqua Films. The deal, which covers both scripted and non-scripted content, is an exclusive multi-year deal that will see the filmmaker expand his TV […]
CBS-owned US network Pop TV has ordered an eight-part coming-of-age comedy series from American Pie scribe Adam Herz. Best Intentions is being produced by A+E Studios with Propagate Content and will go into production in the autumn. The show revolves around a kind-hearted but painfully awkward single father whose hapless efforts to woo a fellow […]
Built-in communities and tangible data points around successful podcasts can prove to be invaluable for unscripted buyers, according to Lore executive producer Brett-Patrick Jenkins. The SVP of development for A+E Networks-backed Propagate Content, whose recent credits include Oxygen’s adaptation of the true crime podcast Up and Vanished and Amazon’s scripted adaptation of folk horror podcast […]
Propagate Content has acquired Running Wild With Bear Grylls producer-distributor Electus from IAC, while taking a majority stake in talent agency and Black-ish producer Artists First. Electus was originally founded by Propagate chairman and co-CEO Ben Silverman with the backing of IAC in 2009. The exec left the business in 2016 to create Propagate with co-CEO […]
US indie studio Propagate and Greek broadcaster Antenna Group are teaming up for original formats and content. The businesses have struck a partnership to develop, produce and distribute original formats and content. Two original series are currently in development and will air in 2019. The first production is a local version of the Propagate game show format […]
Former All3Media America boss Greg Lipstone has joined Lore producer Propagate Content as president. The exec is to work alongside founder and co-CEO Howard T. Owens and chairman and co-CEO Ben Silverman. Lipstone departed Undercover Boss producer All3Media America in January after just over two years as CEO. Prior to joining the Liberty Global and […]
Propagate has reached an agreement with FX to develop hit Colombian format La Niña for the US market. Writer’s Guild of America Award nominee, Hilary Bettis (a playwright and screenwriter who worked on FX’s highly respected cold-war drama The Americans, pictured) will be adapting the series that was originally made by Caracol Televisión. The show […]
US indie Propagate Content has hired Laurie Girion as executive VP of non-scripted content. Girion will report to chairman and co-CEO Ben Silverman and co-CEO Howard T. Owens. She will oversee creative development and production of Propagate’s non-scripted content. The exec will manage a team that includes Kevin Healy, who has been promoted to senior […]
