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EXCLUSIVE: After seven years at ICM and a total of 15 with agent Greg Lipstone, ITV Studios America has signed with WME in all areas, including unscripted and scripted TV. The company (then Granada America) was repped by Lipstone at WMA until 2005, when he moved to ICM, bringing Granada with him. With the 2009 merger between WMA and Endeavor, ITV Studios’ signing with WME represents a return of sorts to its old agency.
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The series pickups ITV Studios landed while with ICM include reality series Kitchen Nightmares (Fox); Steven Seagal: Lawman (A&E); Meet The In-Laws (CMT); Four Weddings, On the Fly and May The Best House Win (TLC); Real Life: The Musical (OWN); NBC drama Prime Suspect; and upcoming ABC comedy The Family Tools. (Lipstone also packaged the company’s hit Hell’s Kitchen while at WMA; the package is owned by WMA successor WME.) The list of pilots include The Chase (Fox), Surprise, Surprise (NBC), Devil’s Dinner Party (CW, presentation), and The Audience, which is being shopped. ITV Studios’ syndicated series credits include The Jeremy Kyle Show, The Bill Cunningham Show and America Now/America Today.
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Sorry greg. Karma is a bitch
As they say…what goes around,comes around…
BBC and ITV both leave in the last year? Things aren’t looking so good over there.
karma baby! uk has left the building
GLIP is the best, there must be more to the story. ITV seems to have a successful run with ICM.
I agree…GLip is the best. At the top of my mensch list. Over the past 20 years, I’ve been on the other side of the table from him countless times, plus he also repped a former company. He cares passionately and delivers for his clients and he’s always been fair and decent with me. I’m often impressed by how well Greg handles the many ups and downs of the business. So while it’s clear to me he did well for ITV, he will no doubt be more than fine post-ITV.
Buccieri is a smart guy but Lipstone deserves better than this.
Greg is a terrific agent. This has nothing to do with Greg and everything to do with the lit side of ICM being unable to adaquately service the growing needs of ITV in scripted.
ITV is leaving Jerry M for B Sugar
I’ve never heard anything but good things about Lipstone.
then you must be deaf
Itv America had a terrible track record with sales — couldn’t get out of own way — and had to blame someone lest the axe from the uk fall on their head. Icm tried extremely hard to manage the bad decisions by ITV but ended up taking the fall all the same.