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ABC Orders ‘Bet On Your Baby’ Game Show For Parents Hosted By Melissa Peterman

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 7:00am PSTTags: ABC, Ben Silverman, Melissa Peterman
Nellie Andreeva

ABC has greenlighted Bet On Your Baby, an eight-episode primetime game show series to premiere in April. Hosted by Melissa Peterman, co-star of the ABC Family comedy Baby Daddy, Bet On Your Baby is produced by Ben Silverman‘s Electus and 5×5 Media, who together co-produce NBC’s Fashion Star and TBS’ King Of The Nerds. The series was inspired by the huge popularity of baby videos online. Each hourlong episode will feature five families with toddlers between the ages of 2 and 3 1/2. While their parents and other relatives compete in the game show, the kids, oblivious to the game, will play and complete simple tasks at a giant playground, with the adults trying to predict the outcome. The individual rounds determine which parent/relative in each of the five families know their child best. At the end of the show, the five families return to play the college round for the chance to win $50,000 towards a college education for their child. “The concept of the show just appealed to me on many levels because as a mom I liked the fact that the kids are having fun and being themselves, it’s the parents playing the game,” Peterman said. READ MORE »

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Dramas From Kyle Killen, Sofia Vergara & Ben Silverman Get ABC Pilot Pickups

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 25, 2013 @ 7:05pm PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Kyle Killen, Sofia Vergara
Nellie Andreeva

Lone Star and Awake creator Kyle Killen has received a pilot order by ABC for his latest drama project, Influence. The network also has … Read More »

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TBS Celebrates “Nerd Culture” With Unscripted ‘King Of The Nerds’: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 4, 2013 @ 10:58am PSTTags: Ben Silverman, King Of The Nerds, TBS, TCA

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA.

The nerds inherited the stage at TCA in Pasadena this morning, led by a self-professed nerd named Ben Silverman, as Turner — undaunted by recent failures in the reality space as Wedding Day and The Great Escape — introduced a quartet of new unscripted projects to the gathered critics. The first of them to premiere (on January 17) is TBS‘ King Of The Nerds, featuring hosts/exec producers Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong of Revenge Of The Nerds fame and Silverman also exec producing. The show features 11 competitors going head-to-head (literally) in activities that span the “full nerd spectrum” while living together in “Nerdvana.” With a straight face, Silverman admitted, “We debated nerds and geeks (with great gusto) because geeks identify differently. We didn’t want to alienate geeks by calling them nerds, and vice-versa. It was all about how to do things in a different way…We’ve seen more and more people stand up and say, ‘Hey I’m smart and I don’t need to hide it’.” The point of King Of The Nerds, Armstrong added, isn’t to put down or make fun of nerds but to “celebrate nerd culture…We got 11 amazing nerds on this show”. Read More »

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Nina Colman Sells NBC, Lifetime Projects Produced By Ben Silverman & Teri Weinberg

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 11:35am PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Big Deals TV, Lifetime, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

Writer Nina Colman (Dr. Dolittle 3) has set up three projects at three different networks. She has teamed with producers Ben Silverman of Electus and Teri Weinberg of Yellow Brick Road for a comedy at NBC and a drama at Lifetime. The projects reunite Silverman and Weinberg, who worked together at Reveille and NBC.

Tentatively titled WTF, the NBC project, from Universal TV, is a dark comedy about four friends whose bad luck suddenly turns into a golden opportunity. The Lifetime drama Flesh And Blood is set in New York and centers on a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who infiltrates a very powerful New York family. Silverman and Weinberg executive produce both projects alongside Colman. Read More »

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TV Land Orders Comedy Pilots Produced By Ben Silverman And Scott Stuber

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 24, 2012 @ 9:00am PDTTags: Ben Silverman, Big Deals TV, Scott Stuber, TV Land
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: TV Land has given cast-contingent orders to two new comedy pilots, the single-camera I’m Not Dead Yet from Ben Silverman’s Electus and the multi-camera Brothers-In-Law, executive produced by Scott Stuber. I’m Not Dead, based on the DBS-produced Israeli format Zanzuri, marks TV Land’s first single-camera pilot. Written by Jon Sherman (Frasier), it is about a man who finds out that he has a rare heart condition that could cause him to die at any moment and  decides to finally start speaking his mind and live life to the fullest. Silverman is executive producing, with Electus’ Jimmy Fox co-executive producing.

Written and executive produced by comedy veterans Bill Martin and Mike Schiff (3rd Rock From The Sun), who will serve as showrunners, Brothers-In-Law revolves around the family dynamic between a husband and the eccentric fiancé of his wife’s twin sister, who have nothing in common but the sisters constantly force them to bond. Stuber is executive producing, with his development executive Quan Phung producing. “With these pilot orders, TV Land continues down a path to build its own library of original sitcoms that will be paired up with some of the best sitcoms ever made,” said TV Land president Larry W. Jones. “This year, we are expanding beyond the multi-camera format — which has been so successful for us — to include one single-camera project.” Read More »

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Dwayne Johnson, Electus On Hunt For ‘The Hero’ In New Competition Series

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday April 17, 2012 @ 7:53am PDTTags: Ben Silverman, Dwayne Johnson, Electus

Ben Silverman’s Electus is teaming with Dwayne Johnson on TV and social media competition series The Hero. The show will lead a search for the next great hero by setting ordinary people on a high-stakes global adventure. Three teams will … Read More »

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National Geographic Signs 3-For-1 Deal With Ben Silverman’s Electus

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 27, 2012 @ 7:08am PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Chris Grant, Electus, National Geographic
Nellie Andreeva

The Reveille cohorts are back in business together. In one of his first major deals since taking the reins of National Geographic as president, Howard Owens has signed a three-for-one project deal with Ben Silverman’s Electus. It includes the development … Read More »

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Sundance: Weinsteins And Ben Silverman Plan Giants-49ers Game Bash For A-Listers

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday January 21, 2012 @ 1:28pm PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Mike Fleming

Back by popular demand, Harvey and Bob Weinstein and Ben Silverman will be hosting a big A-list party at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley tomorrow to watch the NFC Championship Game between the New York Giants and the … Read More »

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NAB Keynotes For Bruce Rosenblum And Ben Silverman

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 17, 2012 @ 9:28am PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Bruce Rosenblum, NAB, National Association of Broadcasters

Washington, DC — Bruce Rosenblum, president of Warner Bros. Television Group and newly sworn in chairman/CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and Ben Silverman, founder and chairman of multimedia studio Electus, will speak at the upcoming

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Ben Silverman “Betting On Bob” To Turn Around NBC: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 6, 2012 @ 1:02pm PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Bob Greenblatt, Fashion Star, NBC

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

Ex-NBC programming chief Ben Silverman was back in a familiar spot this morning: At TCA in Pasadena, representing NBC. But this isn’t 2009, and there is a different guy atop of NBC Entertainment … Read More »

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Ben Silverman’s Electus Adds Former Shine EVP John Pollak To Run International

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday January 5, 2012 @ 6:51am PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Electus, Shine International

Continuing to round up the old troops, Ben Silverman’s IAC-owned multimedia studio Electus has named John Pollak president of the newly-formed Electus International. The former EVP of Shine International worked with Silverman and Electus CEO Chris Grant at Reveille … Read More »

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‘Friends’ Co-Creator Marta Kauffman Sets Up 2 Projects At ABC With Big Commitment

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 10:55am PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, Ben Silverman, DreamWorks TV, Jessica Queller
Nellie Andreeva

In a competitive situation, ABC is finalizing a deal to buy two projects from Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman: one with DreamWorks TV, Red Band Society, and one with Ben Silverman’s Electus, The Avalon. Both are based on international formats and neither is cookie-cutter, traditional broadcast fare. Red Band Society, which Kauffman will write and showrun, is based on the Spanish format Polseres Vermelles and revolves around young hospital patients. The Avalon, which Kauffman will write with Jessica Queller (Gossip Girl), is based on the Pan Asian format The Kitchen Musical and is a musical drama set at a restaurant. Both shows have been laid off at ABC Studios. I hear that ABC made a substantial, seven-figure commitment to Kauffman, which makes a pilot order likely. This marks Kauffman’s first year developing without Warner Bros TV, where she was based for nearly 20 years. She opted not to renew her deal there and take the indie route so she can partner with different companies on different projects and explore both broadcast and cable development. Read More »

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Warner Bros Takes ‘The Accidental Genius’ For Robert Downey Jr’s Production Banner

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 12:32pm PDTTags: Ben Silverman, Electus, Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired the Adam Gibgot pitch The Accidental Genius for Robert Downey Jr and Susan Downey’s Team Downey to produce with Ben Silverman’s Electus. In the drama, an ordinary man awakens from a coma with astonishing intelligence, … Read More »

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Chris Grant Named CEO Of Electus

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 4:49am PDTTags: Ben Silverman, Ben Silverman Electus, Chris Grant, Electus
Nellie Andreeva

Ben Silverman and Chris Grant are reuniting at another startup backed by Barry Diller. Grant is joining Ben Silverman’s new company, IAC-owned Electus, as CEO effective November 1. He will be partnered with Electus COO Drew Buckley, … Read More »

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Adam Mazer To Write HBO Pilot Based On Susanna Moore’s Book ‘The Big Girls’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 2:09pm PDTTags: Ben Silverman, Charlie Corwin, HBO, Joel Schumacher, You Don't Know Jack

Adam Mazer, who won an Emmy last year for penning the HBO movie You Don’t Know Jack, has made a deal to write a pilot for the network based on Susanna Moore’s book The Big Girls, which Joel Schumacher is … Read More »

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Report: Ben Silverman Back At NBC With Reality Series

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday April 3, 2011 @ 10:44pm PDTTags: Ben Silverman, Electus, NBC, Reality TV

OK, he still is credited as an executive producer on The Office and The Biggest Loser, but Ben Silverman hasn’t been hanging around NBC headquarters much since his short reign as NBC co-chairman ended in July 2009. But according to the … Read More »

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Ben Silverman’s Electus Buys Distrib Co.

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 6:48am PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Electus, Movies, TV, TV Deal
Nellie Andreeva

Ben Silverman’s IAC-owned Electus has acquired Engine Entertainment to form a new in-house global distribution arm, Electus/Engine Distribution. The new division will handle worldwide sales for Electus’ content including television, motion picture and digital. Engine Entertainment CEO Chris Philip will assume the role of president of Electus/Engine Distribution with offices … Read More »

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VH1 Orders Mob Reality Series From Ben Silverman And Harvey & Bob Weinstein

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday November 18, 2010 @ 11:16am PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Ben Silverman Electus, Reality TV, The Weinstein Co TV, TV, TV Deals, VH1
Nellie Andreeva

In one of the first series orders for Ben Silverman’s IAC-based company Electus, VH1 has handed out a 10-episode straight-to-series commitment to Mob Wives, a reality series created and executive produced by Jennifer Graziano and produced by Electus and The Weinstein Co. This marks the first collaboration between Silverman and the Weinsteins. Read More »

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