Tag: Lionsgate

Starz has acquired four new documentaries, including Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

Lionsgate has secured an overall deal with Mona Scott-Young, creator and executive producer of the hit reality franchise Love & Hip Hop for VH1, to develop and produce unscripted series for the company’s alternative TV business under her Monani Entertainment banner.

Lionsgate is bringing Kim Kardashian West’s nonfiction show You Kiddin’ Me to Facebook Watch, representing its first series for the social media network’s video platform.

Lionsgate has inked a new overall television deal with unscripted TV producers Katy Wallin and Stephanie Bloch Chambers.

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER: Gisela Asimus-Minnbergh has been named to the newly created role of VP of alternative programming sales for Lionsgate.

NEW YORK: Discovery Channel has picked up worldwide rights for the documentary Huntwatch, about the efforts to end sealing, which is narrated by Ryan Reynolds and will air next month as part of the Discovery Impact banner.

SANTA MONICA/LONDON: Lionsgate has acquired a stake in Primal Media, a new production venture from the team behind the format hits Release the Hounds and The Code.

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER: Ted Bookstaver has been hired at Lionsgate in the newly created position of senior VP of alternative programming sales.

NEW YORK: Singer Christina Aguilera has signed on to develop a new, music-based game show due out on Spike TV as a half-hour special later this year.

PARK CITY/SANTA MONICA: Lionsgate and Discovery Communications's Animal Planet have teamed up to acquire the rights in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. for the documentary film Million Dollar Duck.