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Global Showbiz Briefs: Gersh, Viacom, Shine, Universal, News Corp-ESPN Star

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 7, 2012 @ 9:24pm PSTTags: Foxtel, Shine International, The Gersh Agency, Universal Pictures International, Viacom International Media Networks

Aussie Comedy Creators Sign With Gersh
Trent O’Donnell and Phil Lloyd, who created Australian TV comedy Review With Myles Barlow, have signed with the Gersh Agency just as the show’s U.S. adaptation, Review With Forrest MacNeil, goes into production for Comedy Central. O’Donnell is a writer-director and Lloyd is a writer-actor who played the lead in Review with Myles Barlow. O’Donnell says he and Lloyd plan to travel to the U.S. early next year to look for opportunities as creators-showrunners. The pair, who are partners in Australian production company Jungleboys, also created A Moody Christmas, a comedy series for Australia’s ABC-TV in which each of the six episodes focuses on the dysfunctional Moody family on Christmas Day one year apart. DCD Rights is the international distributor of A Moody Christmas.
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Writer Thompson Evans & Producer Warren Littlefield Sell Dramas To Fox And NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 7, 2012 @ 10:08am PSTTags: Fox, NBC, The Gersh Agency
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Black List writer Thompson Evans and Warren Littlefield’s Littlefield Co. have teamed for drama projects that have sold to Fox and NBC. Fox’s Night Hunters is about … Read More »

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Gersh Signs TV/Film Star Dennis Haysbert

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 23, 2012 @ 11:19am PDTTags: Dennis Haysbert, LUV, The Gersh Agency
Mike Fleming

Dennis Haysbert Gersh AgencyEXCLUSIVE: Dennis Haysbert has signed with Bob Gersh at the Gersh Agency. Haysbert, who starred in the series The Unit and films like Michael Mann’s Heat, has become most identified with his role as the Allstate spokesman. … Read More »

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Oscar Nominee Andrew Bowler Signs With Gersh

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday March 6, 2012 @ 1:27pm PSTTags: Andrew Bowler, The Gersh Agency

Time Freak OscarsEXCLUSIVE: Andrew Bowler is the writer-director of Time Freak, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film this year and won the top prize at the Seattle International Film Festival. Before that, … Read More »

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TV Lit Agent Amy Retzinger Joins Verve As New Partner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 5, 2011 @ 11:40am PSTTags: Amy Retzinger, The Gersh Agency, Verve
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Amy Retzinger & Rob Golenberg Exit Gersh

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Gersh TV lit agent Amy Retzinger, who left the agency last week, is joining boutique agency Verve. Retzinger will be a new partner … Read More »

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Amy Retzinger & Rob Golenberg Exit Gersh

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 6:37pm PSTTags: Amy Retzinger, Rob Golenberg, The Gersh Agency
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Gersh TV lit agents Amy L. Retzinger and Rob Golenberg have left the agency. Both had been there for more than a decade. The move is a fallout from Gersh’s recent hire of CAA TV lit agent Roy Ashton as Partner and Head of the Television Literary … Read More »

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CAA TV Lit Agent Roy Ashton Joins Gersh As Partner And Head Of TV Lit Division

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 16, 2011 @ 5:00pm PSTTags: The Gersh Agency
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran CAA TV literary agent Roy Ashton is joining the Gersh Agency as Partner and Head of the Television Literary Department. The recruitment of Ashton, who has been at CAA for more than 13 years, is part … Read More »

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Bloodlines Running Thin At Gersh Agency

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday December 1, 2010 @ 3:31pm PSTTags: Agents, Bob Gersh, David Gersh, Gersh Agency Departures, Gersh Aquisition, Gersh Hohman Maybank Lieb, Gersh Literary Department, The Gersh Agency

UPDATE: Over the years I knew and interviewed Phil Gersh, the late founder of The Gersh Agency and long the dean of Hollywood agents, and he was a model of integrity even in the cutthroat business of Hollywood talent and literary representation. Because of this, reps at other agents long … Read More »

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UPDATE: Gersh Confirms Hohman Maybank Lieb Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 1, 2010 @ 12:21pm PSTTags: Agents, Gersh Aquisition, Gersh Hohman Maybank Lieb, Gersh Literary Department, Katherine Fugate, The Gersh Agency
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: The Gersh Agency has just confirmed Deadline’s report that it has acquired Hohman, Maybank, Lieb and issued a press release that follows the original story break.

EXCLUSIVE: The Gersh Agency is putting the finishing touches on a major deal that will give a real shot in the arm … Read More »

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Bill Butler Lands At Industry Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 27, 2010 @ 11:08am PDTTags: Bill Butler, Bill Butler Manager, Calista Flockhart, Chris Meloni, Industry Entertainment, Managers, Mario Cantone, Melina Kanakaredes, The Gersh Agency
Mike Fleming

Bill Butler, a longtime fixture at Gersh’s New York headquarters before leaving to become manager, has landed at Industry Entertainment as a partner. He’ll continue to be Gotham-based, and starts off with the following clients, most long timers from Gersh: Chris Meloni, Melina Kanakaredes, Jane Krakowski, Calista Flockhart, Victor Garber, … Read More »

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EMMY: Agency Breakdown For Actor Noms

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 5:55pm PDTTags: 62nd Emmy Nominations, APA, CAA, Emmy, ICM, IFA, Innovative Artists, Paradigm, The Gersh Agency, UTA, WME

emmysI can’t do a full agency breakdown of the Emmy nominations yet because the series producers have not been announced. For now, here’s the rep breakdown of the acting categories floating around the tenpercenteries:

WME: 22 Nominations
Amy Poehler, Andre Braugher, Claire Danes, … Read More »

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