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Gunnar Wetterberg, who as head of development at Magical Elves spearheaded such formats as Top Chef on Bravo and Treasure Hunters on NBC, has been appointed Senior Unscripted Television Executive at BermanBraun. He most recently was SVP Development at T Group Prods and has sold shows to both broadcast and cable networks over his career. He also developed Sony Pictures Television’s game show franchise Russian Roulette, which has been produced in more than 30 countries. “He has proven himself to be a true innovator in the world of television and we look forward to working with him on expanding our unscripted business”, BermanBraun television president Gene Stein said in announcing the deal. READ MORE »
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BermanBraun Taps Gunnar Wetterberg To Run Unscripted Unit
NFL Exec Jeff Berman Named President Of BermanBraun
BermanBraun has named Jeff Berman to the new position of president of Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun’s TV, film and digital production company. Jeff Berman (no relation) was GM of Digital Media for the NFL, and before that … Read More »
NBC Orders Summer Camp Dramedy Series From ‘Deception’ Creator & BermanBraun
Ahead of the debut of NBC‘s midseason drama Deception tomorrow, the network has given a straight-to-series order to another hourlong project from the Deception team of creator/executive producer Liz Heldens and Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun’s production company BermanBraun. Created by Heldens and Deception co-executive producer Peter Elkoff, Camp has been picked up for 13 episodes to air in the summer. This will be Heldens and BermanBraun’s third series on NBC following medical drama Mercy, which Heldens also created, and Deception. Elkoff also worked with Heldens on Mercy.
In the tradition of Meatballs and Dazed And Confused, Little Hawk Family Camp is a wicked slice of lake-side heaven. In the one-hour dramedy, parents decompress with gin while teenagers make gleeful mischief and fall in and out of love. “In our desire to make summer an exciting place at NBC along with our signature unscripted shows like America’s Got Talent, The Voice and American Ninja Warrior, we developed a scripted dramedy we love with BermanBraun that has rich and dysfunctional characters in that great setting where millions of families and young people go each summer: camp,” said NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke. “Most of us have had great experiences at camp, and this show — created by two of our favorite producers, Liz Heldens and Peter Elkoff — is sophisticated, funny, and emotional, and we think it will be the ideal summer series for us.” Camp will be produced by Matchbox Pictures (The Slap) and BermanBraun. Heldens and Elkoff executive produce with Berman, Braun and Gene Stein. Production is scheduled to begin in Australia in March. Read More »
Hot Teaser: Vuguru & BermanBraun Web Series ‘Greetings From Home’
Michael Eisner’s Vuguru and BermanBraun are partnering on the comedy web series Greetings From Home that launches on AOL on October 1. The 12-episode series is a humorous look at a military dad who’s raising two unruly teens while mom is deployed overseas. It was directed by … Read More »
BermanBraun Hires Chris Cowan As Head Of Unscripted Television
Chris Cowan, a former principal of Rocket Science Laboratories and Angel City Factory, has joined BermanBraun as head of unscripted television. He also will oversee all video development and production in the company’s digital unit, including the … Read More »
AOL Expands Into Male Lifestyle Market In Collaboration With BermanBraun
NEW YORK, NY, (March 29, 2012) – Today AOL, a premier digital media company, and BermanBraun, a well-known and creative innovator, launched Mandatory.com, an authentic, relevant and irreverent online destination for men. The new site marks AOL’s entry into the male consumer lifestyle space.
BermanBraun Buys Digital Content Provider Whiskey Media
As part of this acquisition, BermanBraun will get three key sites of San Francisco-based Whiskey Media and acquire its content publishing platform. The three sites include the video entertainment-focused Screened, tech testing site Tested and Anime Vice, which covers anime and manga comics. The new Tested will become the Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage site and will go live later today (Hyneman and Savage are in a producing partnership with BermanBraun).
Universal TV Names Andy Weil VP Comedy
Universal TV has rounded out its development team with the hire of Andy Weil as VP Comedy Development. Universal TV EVP Bela Bajaria last month appointed Russell Rothberg as SVP drama/department head, Tracey Pakosta as SVP comedy/department head and … Read More »
Google Wrapping Up Deals To Launch 25+ Pro-Produced YouTube Channels For January
EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that Google has put Hollywood on notice to keep mum as it prepares to announce its big plan to redefine YouTube with 25 or so channels that will offer professionally produced news, information and entertainment. Google plans to … Read More »
NBC Buys Comedy From Broken Lizard Duo, Adapts Australian Format ‘Laid’
NBC has bought Kept Men, a multi-camera comedy from writers-actors Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme, members of the Broken Lizard comedy filmmaking group behind such movies as Super Troopers and Beerfest. Heffernan and Lemme will write the project, which tells … Read More »
Syfy Renews ‘Alphas’ For Second Season
Syfy has renewed freshman drama Alphas for a second season with a 13-episode order. The series, from BermanBraun, Universal Cable Prods. and writers Zak Penn and Michael Karnow, has been a solid ratings performer airing behind … Read More »
WME Signs Production Co. BermanBraun
EXCLUSIVE: Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun’s production company BermanBraun has signed with WME for representation. At the agency, the company’s entertainment division will be handled by co-CEO Ari Emanuel and head of the TV department Rick Rosen. The … Read More »
Jean Smart, Gabrielle Union & Kelly Hu Among Latest Pilot Casting Additions
Jean Smart is set to star in NBC’s untitled Dan Goor pilot. The multicamera comedy, from 
BermanBraun, UMS and writer-exec producer Dan Goor, centers on Adam Foote, a young doctor who joins his parents’ medical practice and spends as much time tending to his family as to his patients. Smart will play Adam’s doting, meddlesome mom, Dr. Barbara Foote. Emmy winner Smart recurs on two CBS series this season, drama Hawaii Five-0 and comedy $#*! My Dad Says.
Gabrielle Union is set to co-star opposite Rob Corddry, Paula Marshall and Kevin Hart in Rob Thomas’ single-camera comedy pilot for Fox Little in Common. The WBTV-produced pilot is about three families united through their kids’ little league sports. It centers on the Wellers (Corddry, Marshall), who move from San Jose, CA to Austin, TX, but find that their adjustment won’t be quite that easy considering that their Latino neighbors, the Pachecos, have a radically different approach to child-rearing than they do, while their other new neighborhood acquaintances, the African American Burlesons (Hart, Union), take sports very seriously. Union’s Nicole Burleson is a lobbyist on the fast track to success who is every bit as competitive and intense as her husband. Read More »
Fox Picks Up Medical Drama Pilot ‘Weekends At Bellevue’ In Turnaround
EXCLUSIVE: Fox has handed a late pilot order to Weekends at Bellevue, a medical drama from former ER writer-producer Lisa Zwerling and BermanBraun. The project, centered on a psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit, … Read More »
Ira Steven Behr To Run SyFy Series ‘Alphas’
EXCLUSIVE: Star Trek veteran Ira Steven Behr has joined Syfy’s newly picked up series Alphas as executive producer/showrunner. Alphas, from BermanBraun, Universal Cable Prods. and writers Zak Penn and Michael Karnow, stars David Strathairn and follows … Read More »
BermanBraun Taps Head Of Digital Video
With their digital portfolio growing, Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun’s BermanBraun is launching a digital video division and has tapped BBC Worldwide Prods. executive Ian Moffitt to run it. Moffitt, who starts on January 3, will assemble a full-fledged video … Read More »
Syfy Picks Up ‘Alphas’ Pilot To Series, ‘Three Inches’ Still Alive
UPDATED: It came down to the wire for Syfy’s two drama pilots about people with special abilities, Alphas and Three Inches, which were both in serious contention for a series pickup. Syfy just made its final decision, giving Alphas an … Read More »
David Strathairn In Talks For ‘Alphas’ Lead
EXCLUSIVE: David Strathairn is in negotiations for the lead in SyFy’s action-adventure 90-minute pilot Alphas, directed by Jack Bender. Additionally, Ryan Cartwright is set to co-star in the pilot, from BermanBraun and writers Zak Penn and Michael Karnow. Alphas follows a team of ordinary citizens possessing extraordinary and unusual mental skills who take the law into their own hands and uncover what the CIA, FBI and Pentagon have not been able or willing to solve. ICM-repped Strathairn would play the overseer/team leader/prescribing doctor and all around mother hen to the team: an eccentric, absent-minded professor at times, who is also a cunning and manipulative power-player willing to bend the rules in pursuit of his objectives. Cartwright will play a member of the team who has Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. His Alpha ability allows him to “read” wireless transmissions passing through the ether – e-mails, cell phone communications, television signals, etc. Read More »
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