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Exclusive: April Yuan, one of the founding partners of Vital Artists Agency, is joining Verve.

Non-fiction agent Yuan has joined Verve’s newly rebranded non-Fiction team, headed by Partner Andy Stabile.

The move comes after the partners at Vital, which was founded during the pandemic by Rebel Entertainment’s senior unscripted agents Cal Boyington, Phil Irven and Yuan following the retirement of their former boss Richard Lawrence, decided to split.

Yuan will continue to represent clients including Asabi Lee, exec producer of Max’s Project Greenlight revival, Lanee Griffin (Hart to Heart with Kevin Hart), Wendi Wan (Milf Manor) and Carolina Saavedra (Leguizamo Does America) and will work with Verve’s existing team of agents as it expands its non-fiction team.

She has been instrumental in growing representation for female and Bipoc voices in the non-scripted community. She previously said, “We’re just making reality TV. But we can do...

Exclusive: The partners of Vital Artists Agency, the unscripted-focused talent agency formed during the pandemic, are going their separate ways.

Deadline understands that there are a number of changes involving the company, which was founded in late 2020 by Rebel Entertainment partners senior unscripted agents Cal Boyington, Phil Irven and April Yuan after the retirement of their former boss Richard Lawrence.

The company has represented the likes of Valerie Chow, exec producer of The Great American Recipe, Moira Noriega, series producer of Netflix’s Ultimate Beastmaster and Vivian Payton, who has worked on series such as Love & Hip Hop: Miami and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion as well as production companies Sunwise Media, Empty Quarter Studios and Dola Media.

Boyington, who previously worked at ICM Partners and Paradigm Talent Agency, will take sole ownership of the Vital name, trademark, and logo.

Irven will leave to form a new company...

The dogfight between Judith Sheindlin and CBS against Rebel Entertainment Partners over the 95 million sale of the Judy Judy library is over, but not finished.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kristin S. Escalante has granted a motion by Sheindlin, Big Ticket Pictures and the Paramount Global-owned CBS to dismiss the two-year-old suit from self-described “successor in interest” Rebel over the more than 5 million the latter claims it is owed for the admittedly convoluted 2017 sale.

“Defendants Big Ticket Pictures, Inc.; CBS Studios, Inc.; CBS Corporation; Judith Sheindlin; and Her Honor, Inc. are entitled to judgment in their favor on all causes of action as fully reflected in the Order, which is signed and filed on this date and incorporated herein by reference to the Court file,” the judge wrote in a September 28 minutes order (read it here).

The judge added in a full order later in the day:

However, before the victory dances commence,...