Nellie Andreeva

Brent Montgomery’s New York-based independent reality TV production company Leftfield Pictures (Pawn Stars) has acquired Rebecca Toth Diefenbach and Valerie Haselton’s fellow independent unscripted producer Sirens Media. Headquartered in Silver Spring, MD, Sirens Media is behind Bravo’s hit docu-soap Real Housewives Of New Jersey, now in its fifth season, and has nine series in production for Discovery ID, including Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? and Deadly Affairs, hosted by Susan Lucci. This marks the first acquisition for Leftfield, which is establishing Leftfield Entertainment, a new umbrella company that will be used to continue to expand the company’s production footprint via acquisitions, new joint ventures, and producer overall deals. According to Leftfield, this the first acquisition transaction between two independent U.S. TV production companies, and the first time a U.S. deal was financed entirely by a syndicate of banks (the deal was led by Barclays and includes RBS Citizens and SunTrust banks). READ MORE »