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Red Arrow Acquires Majority Stake In ‘Mob Wives’ Producer Left/Right

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday August 6, 2012 @ 9:23am PDTTags: Mob Wives

Munich-based Red Arrow Entertainment Group launched in 2010 with the backing of Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 and has continued to grow its portfolio at a rapid clip. Today, the acquisition of a majority stake in New York-based indie TV producer Left/Right brings to 18 the total number of production companies it owns in nine territories. Founded by Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman in 2005, Left/Right is behind such shows as VH1’s Mob Wives, HGTV’s Home By Novogratz and Showtime’s This American Life. Tarver and Druckerman will continue to run the company, Jan Frouman, managing director of Red Arrow, tells Deadline. “We try to refrain from micromanaging”, he says, “We like each company to have its own face and name”. Frouman says the deal with Left/Right is “the most significant acquisition in size that we’ve done to date”. It’s Red Arrow’s third Stateside deal following majority acquisitions of Kinetic Content in 2010 and Fuse Entertainment in 2011.

Left/Right’s Druckerman says, “When Banks and I started we had a vision as a boutique company; smaller than how we are 7 years later”. But the duo’s success made it “a logical next step to find an international partner”, with an independent spirit. Tarver tells me Left/Right has “a really special culture in the office” that makes it possible to be “crazy eclectic. It takes a special larger creative collective to help us grow and make us bigger and more dynamic”. Among Left/Right’s recently announced new projects are a Maria Menounos docuseries for Oxygen and a look at eel fishermen for Animal Planet. There are also plans to explore new opportunities in scripted programming and “other new areas”. Frouman adds that the next focus is on “finding ways to roll out Left/Right productions all over the world.” Left/Right is repped by WME.

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VH1 Renews ‘Mob Wives’ For Third Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 9, 2012 @ 10:03am PDTTags: Mob Wives, VH1
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VH1 has renewed hit reality series Mob Wives for a third season premiering in early 2013. The Season 2 finale airs May 13. Joy Behar hosts a reunion special on May 20 and 27. In its second season, Mob … Read More »

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VH1 Greeenlights ‘Mob Wives’ Spinoff ‘Big Ang’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 17, 2012 @ 12:01pm PDTTags: Big Ang, Mob Wives, VH1

VH1 Mob WivesAngela “Big Ang” Raiola, one of the stars of VH1′s reality series Mob Wives, is getting her own show. The network has ordered 10 episodes of the new half-hour series, titled Big Ang, to premiere in the summer. … Read More »

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‘Mob Wives’ Producer Left/Right Adds Execs To Boost Production & Development

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 31, 2012 @ 2:04pm PSTTags: Mob Wives

EXCLUSIVE: Left/Right, the production company behind nonfiction series Mob Wives and Showtime’s This American Life among other fare, has hired two execs and promoted aonther. Nina Diaz, an executive producer on Mob Wives, has come aboard as SVP Current Production, while … Read More »

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