Asylum Launches Drama Label

Asylum Entertainment Group has established Clovis Entertainment, which will exclusively develop and produce one-hour drama series.

The company has appointed veteran series producer and executive Derek Stoops to run Clovis. Most recently, he served as senior VP of original programming for Sony Pictures TV Networks, where his credits included Absentia (Amazon), Carter (WGN), Reckoning (AXN), Hannibal (NBC), Crossing Lines (NBC) and The Firm (NBC).

Stoops will report directly to Asylum’s CEO, Steve Michaels.

Clovis will focus on character-driven English-language dramas as well as local-language dramas for international channels and platforms.

“We are fortunate to have Derek on board,” said Michaels, “While at Sony, he was a driving force at the forefront of emerging television models. For this venture, Derek brings exactly the right experience and expertise to the company.”

“I am fortunate to have had an extraordinary education and built so many solid relationships within the worldwide creative community over the last decade I spent at Sony,” said Stoops. “I am beyond excited to bring all of it to bear in an exceptional entrepreneurial venture like Clovis.”

Michaels added, “With our commitment to being lean and adaptive, our partners are investors alongside us, so when Clovis makes money, our partners do as well. That entrepreneurial philosophy and focused production approach is in line with our overall stated mission which spans across all of our current companies and those yet to come.”