Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch

Red Arrow buys Wahlburgers prodco

Red Arrow Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in 44 Blue, the LA-based prodco that makes cable series including Wahlburgers for A&E and Pit Bulls & Parolees for Animal Planet. The longstanding production business was created in 1984 by Rasha Drachkovitch and Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch. Both execs will stay on following deal completion. 44 Blue’s […]

Wahlburgers prodco staffs up

44 Blue Productions, the company behind A&E unscripted series Wahlburgers, has hired a pair of development executives and promoted another. Alison Dammann and Willis Robertson are the new hires, with Julie Merson upped. Dammann joins having previously worked in development at Relativity Media, whose TV division this week spun out of the financially-challenged company under […]

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