Half Yard Pacts with Public School Productions

Half Yard Productions, a Red Arrow Studios company, has partnered with Public School Productions, a new production company led by Christo Doyle.

Public School Productions will be dedicated to developing and producing authentic, first-in-its-space content with rich and dynamic characters. The partnership will see Half Yard put in place production infrastructure for Public School Productions and includes plans to co-develop projects.

Doyle, former VP of production and development for Discovery Channel, helped build the long-running series Gold Rush. He also developed, produced and hosted the Gold Rush spin-off talk show, The Dirt, as well as producing the brand extensions Gold Rush South America and Gold Rush White Water. Other series Doyle was involved with at Discovery include American Chopper, Monster Garage, Overhaulin’, American Hot Rod & Biker Build Off, Miami Ink, Dirty Jobs, Jungle Gold, Pacific Warrior, Flying Wild Alaska, Alaskan Bush People and Dual Survival.

Dirk Hoogstra, CEO at Half Yard Productions, said: “At Half Yard Productions, we are always looking for new stories to tell, and Christo has an incredible track record of bringing new stories and characters to our screens. We can’t wait to help build Public School Productions into a new storytelling powerhouse.”

Christo Doyle, founder of Public School Productions, commented: “It’s exciting to be finally going out on my own and to use years of storytelling experience at Discovery to build Public School Productions into a leader in cutting-edge content. The goal is to make great TV with great people. Collaborating with Half Yard means that Public School can hit the ground running, and we are excited to start unveiling our upcoming slate of projects in the coming months.”