Ish Entertainment Co-founder in Reveille Pact

LOS ANGELES: Stelle Stolper, the co-founder of Ish Entertainment—the venture behind MTV’s Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, among other reality titles—is forming a new joint venture with Reveille.

Wikked Entertainment will produce original entertainment for television under the leadership of Stolper, with financial, production and distribution support from Reveille. Naomi Bulochnikov will join Wikked from Ish as head of development. Stolper, who before Ish Entertainment was senior VP of celebrity talent development at VH1, and her team will continue to focus on building new TV franchises around talent—a formula that worked to great success for VH1 with the "Celebreality" franchise. Via Shine International, Wikked’s formats will be launched on the international market. 

“I’m proud of our tremendous track record at Ish and excited to work with Reveille to ramp up a new slate of programs for a worldwide audience,” said Stolper. “There is no better partner than Reveille, a company whose creative vision matches my own, and whose ability to develop hit franchises on a global scale will allow us to take our business to the next level.”

Stolper launched Ish with fellow ex-VH1 staffer Michael Hirschorn in January 2008. The venture inked a first-look deal with Lionsgate and has rolled out a slate of unscripted titles for U.S. cable networks, including VH1’s My Antonio.