{"id":12880,"date":"2019-06-04T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/half-yard-taps-history-alum-dirk-hoogstra\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:00:21","slug":"half-yard-taps-history-alum-dirk-hoogstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/half-yard-taps-history-alum-dirk-hoogstra\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Yard Taps HISTORY Alum Dirk Hoogstra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Arrow Studios&#8217; Half Yard Productions has hired Dirk Hoogstra to join the company as executive VP of development.<\/p>\n<p>Hoogstra will work closely with Half Yard\u2019s recently promoted chief creative officer, Nicole Sorrenti, and VP of development, Matt Ayres. Hoogstra has been in the media industry for 23 years, holding a number of senior positions, including serving as executive VP and general manager of HISTORY. During his run at the network, he developed and oversaw scripted and unscripted series such as <em>American Pickers<\/em>, <em>Counting Cars<\/em>, <em>Mountain Men<\/em>, <em>Top Gear<\/em>, <em>Hatfields &amp; McCoys<\/em>, <em>The Bible<\/em> and <em>Vikings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Gallagher, CEO of Half Yard Productions, said: \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to bring Dirk in to the Half Yard fold. Dirk and I worked together for many years at Discovery and TLC, developing hit series such as <em>American Chopper<\/em>, <em>Dirty Jobs<\/em> and <em>Little People, Big World<\/em>. We\u2019ve had a lot of success together, and I wanted to bring that creative chemistry over to Half Yard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sorrenti said: \u201cDirk will be a great addition to our team. He brings a ton of experience and is focused on ramping up our development pipeline. We couldn\u2019t be more pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoogstra added: \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be getting the band back together with Sean. He\u2019s built a strong creative team, and we\u2019re going to be moving quickly to build on Half Yard\u2019s already impressive stable of hit series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Arrow Studios&#8217; Half Yard Productions has hired Dirk Hoogstra to join the company as executive VP of development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":12881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[3814,2917,2719],"class_list":["post-12880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-dirk-hoogstra","tag-half-yard-productions","tag-red-arrow-studios","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Half Yard Taps HISTORY Alum Dirk Hoogstra - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/half-yard-taps-history-alum-dirk-hoogstra\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Half Yard Taps HISTORY Alum Dirk Hoogstra - 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