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The quest for love is not over yet. “Love on the Spectrum” has been renewed for Season 4 at Netflix.

The streamer announced that the heartwarming docureality series will return at its upfront event in New York City Wednesday. The series, which won two Primetime Emmy Awards for casting and directing in 2022, follows several singles on the autism spectrum as they hope to find their romantic match.

“Million Dollar Secret” was also renewed for Season 2 at Netflix. The competition series follows 12 strangers as they attempt to find the guest with the secret stash of $1 million. As clues attempt to reveal the millionaire’s identity, it is up to the guest to be a master manipulator to keep the cash tip.

In Season 3 of “Love on the Spectrum” fan favorite Connor found his “demigoddess” after one season of unsuccessful pursuits, while Abbey and David talked about the future of their relationship. Newcomer...

Netflix will continue to find love and uncover secrets as the streamer renewed Love on the Spectrum and Million Dollar Secret for new seasons.

Love on the Spectrum will return to Netflix with Season 4 following a successful third season on the streamer. The reality series is insightful and warm-hearted, following people on the autism spectrum as they navigate the world of dating and relationships.

Throughout its run, Love on the Spectrum has been awarded five Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program in 2022 and Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program in 2024.

The most recent season ranked in the Global Top 10 for two weeks. The format also has a spinoff set in Australia, with two seasons produced.

Love on the Spectrum is produced by Northern Pictures with Karina Holden and Cian O’Clery serving as executive producers.

Million Dollar Secret is set to return for Season 2 at Netflix following its debut season.

Archstone Boards ‘Chili Finger’ With Greer, Astin, Cranston and Goodman

Exclusive: Archstone has taken over international sales duties from Moonstone Entertainment to dark comedy Chili Finger ahead of the Cannes market. Set to shoot this summer in Central Illinois, the film is due to star Judy Greer, Sean Astin, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. Gersh will continue handling domestic. Chili Finger tells the story of a recently empty-nested mother Jess (Greer) who discovers a human finger in her bowl of chili. When she blackmails the restaurant for a cash payout, the situation spirals out of control and her life descends into chaos. Edd Benda and Stephen Helstad, who wrote the script, will co-direct. Sam Sandweiss and Jo Henriquez are producing. Goodman and Greer will executive produce alongside Archstone’s Jack Sheehan, Scott Martin, and Michael Slifkin.

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When Courtney White started working at HGTV in 2005, the standard episode order for a new series was no less than 65 episodes.

Today, as the president of Wheelhouse Entertainment, White is tasked with juggling a busy portfolio of unscripted series for broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. As White explains on the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” the days of getting double-digit episode orders for even the most successful series are long past.

“The reality, which is a harsh one for the business, is there are very few really high-volume shows anymore,” White says. “So it really is about the six- or eight-episode order. That that is the norm.”

White details the structure of Wheelhouse Entertainment, part of Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse group, where she oversees seven busy production labels that are experts in specific genres and sub-genres of production. It allows Wheelhouse to make the most of each title that flows through the company.

Updated, April 29: A&e has pushed back the premiere date for Duck Dynasty: The Revival to Sunday, June 1 from its originally announced May 28 date.

Previous, April 14: The Robertsons are back. A&e announced today that the first season of their new series Duck Dynasty: The Revival will premiere Wednesday, May 28 at 9 pm.

The series, which received an initial two-season order in January, returns to the network after eight years.

Duck Dynasty: The Revival centers on Willie and Korie Robertson as they navigate life with their growing family of adult children and grandchildren, now part of the next generation carrying on the Robertson legacy at their Louisiana homestead. As the family business expands beyond ducks, Willie and Korie bring their signature wit and down-home charm while they explore the future of Duck Commander, support their children through marriage, parenthood, and entrepreneurship, and work to keep their legacy alive. However, Willie...

Exclusive: With Million Dollar Secret riding high in the charts, Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse is looking to lean into the creator economy and YouTube talent in a big way.

Glenn Hugill, the newly-promoted Chief Content Officer and President of the international Wheelhouse Studios, said the indie is in the process of signing off on a “massive project that involves creator-led talent” and was the subject of a bidding war. “It’s got huge creators and a structure that involves live, structured and reality,” he explained. “It feels like the kind of show that would never have existed three years ago and right now feels inevitable.”

Further to this project, Hugill revealed Wheelhouse is deep in the weeds striking a string of talent deals with digital creatives that will be unveiled in the coming weeks. This, he said, came after Jimmy Kimmel’s indie Kimmelot divested its equity stake in Wheelhouse...

Hulu has released the official trailer and key art for its upcoming Original reality competition series Got to Get Out. All eight episodes of the series will premiere on Friday, April 11.

Hosted by Simu Liu, Got to Get Out features “reality TV royalties” and breakout “reality TV rookies” as they face off to win $1 million. The series will put twenty people under one roof. To win the competition, they’ve Got to Get Out… but that is much easier said than done.

Lies and lunacy collide in this exhilarating competition series where an outrageous mix of reality icons and crafty gamers must conspire to get out.

In this house, time is money. As the clock ticks up, so does the prize money. The longer they stay, the greater their chance to earn more. They can split the money equally in the end or, at any point in time, try to...

Simu Liu hosts ‘Got to Get Out’ (Photo Credit: Hulu)

Hulu’s ready to launch a new reality TV star-fueled competition with Got To Get Out. Simu Liu (Barbie) is on board as host of the unscripted competition series that pits 20 reality show veterans against each other, with $1 million in prize money on the line.

“Lies and lunacy collide in this exhilarating competition series where an outrageous mix of reality icons and crafty gamers must conspire to get out. In this house, time is money. As the clock ticks up, so does the prize money. The longer they stay, the greater their chance to earn more,” reads Hulu’s synopsis. “They can split the money equally in the end, or at any point in time, try to make their escape with the accumulated money all for themselves, leaving others to start again at $0.

From wild strategies and temptations to shifting alliances and unbelievable escape attempts,...

A new reality competition show is coming to Hulu. On Thursday, the streamer announced an escape room-inspired show, Got to Get Out, hosted by Simu Liu and featuring reality television legends, including Omarosa, Spencer Pratt, and DWTS’ Val Chmerkovskiy as competitors.

The new show, scheduled to be released on April 11, will follow twenty competitors as they fight for $1 million prizes while trying to get out of a house.

“Lies and lunacy collide in this exhilarating competition series where an outrageous mix of reality icons and crafty gamers must conspire to get out.

Hulu has announced the host and cast for its upcoming Original unscripted series Got to Get Out. All eight episodes of the series will premiere on Friday, April 11 on Hulu.

Hosted by Simu Liu, Got to Get Out features “reality TV royalties” and breakout “reality TV rookies” as they face off to win $1 million.

The series will put twenty people under one roof. To win the competition, they’ve Got to Get Out… but that is much easier said than done. Lies and lunacy collide in this exhilarating competition series where an outrageous mix of reality icons and crafty gamers must conspire to get out.

In this house, time is money. As the clock ticks up, so does the prize money. The longer they stay, the greater their chance to earn more.

They can split the money equally in the end, or at any point in time, try to make...

Hulu has tapped Simu Liu to host its new reality TV competition Got To Get Out, which premieres on Friday, April 11.

The series pits reality TV royals against reality TV rookies, who live under one roof and fight for a chance to win $1 million.

Liu will be joined by reality TV veterans like Cynthia Bailey (The Real Housewives of Atlanta), Demi Burnett (The Bachelor), Val Chmerkovskiy (Dancing with the Stars), Clare Crawley (The Bachelor), Rashad Jennings (former NFL running back), Susan Noles (The Golden Bachelor), Omarosa (The Apprentice), Spencer Pratt (The Hills), and Kim Zolciak-Biermann (The Real Housewives of Atlanta).

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The rookies include Jill Ashlock, Lindsey Coffey, Yahné Coleman, Shane Dougherty, Steven Giannopoulos, Steve Helling, Nick Metzler, Stein Retzlaff, Rob Roman, Athena Suich, and Athena Vas.

Lies and lunacy collide in this competition series where a mix of...

Minnesota Timberwolves player Anthony Edwards — currently making headlines for posting his own thoughts on the L.A. Lakers’ Luka Dončić trade (sending Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks) — is launching the sports docuseries “Year Five,” which premieres next week on Edwards’ YouTube channel.

“Year Five” is a collaboration between Edwards’ Three Fifths Media and Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse, which first struck a partnership in October. The series will be produced via Wheelhouse Sports, a new division inside Wheelhouse, as well as with branded and original content company Portal A, which has also worked on digital series for Stephen Curry, Carmelo Anthony, Adam Rippon and Odell Beckham Jr.

“Year Five” will produce five episodes, at between 15 to 20 minutes in length, following Edwards during his current season with the Timberwolves. The show will look at Edwards’ game from the NBA All-Star Weekend to the NBA Playoffs. Per the series description, “viewers will...

Wheelhouse Entertainment is making changes in its C-suite.

The unscripted-focused studio founded by Brent Montgomery has named Courtney White president. White will add oversight of all Wheelhouse U.S production labels including Spoke Studios, new True Crime production venture Twist and Wheelhouse DNA, the company’s digital and audio division. She will also help manage Wheelhouse’s physical production partnerships, including Chef David Chang’s Majordomo Media, and NBA star Anthony Edwards’ Three Fifths Media.

White will also continue to run lifestyle firm Butternut, the venture she launched with Wheelhouse in 2022.

Wheelhouse also promoted Glenn Hugill to chief content officer and president of Wheelhouse Studios, its international content hub. Hugill will oversee creative development and production of global formats, based in London. Both White and Hugill will report to Montgomery.

“Our goal is to always blaze new trails and by fortifying our core business with the incredible leadership of Courtney and Glenn,...

Wheelhouse Entertainment is making some promotions.

The company, which was founded by Pawn Stars creator Brent Montgomery in 2018, has promoted Courtney White and Glenn Hugill.

White, who joined the company in 2022 with the launch of her label Butternut, has been named President of Wheelhouse Entertainment.

Hugill, who joined in 2023 to head up its UK operations, has been named chief content officer and President of Wheelhouse Studios, the company’s new international content hub.

Former Food Network President White, who will continue to run Butternut, will now add oversight of all Wheelhouse U.S production labels including flagship Spoke Studios, new True Crime prodco Twist and Wheelhouse DNA, the company’s digital and audio division. During her tenure, she has produced series such as Food Network’s Last Bite Hotel, HGTV’s Divided by Design, Roku’s Celebrity Family Food Battle and Discovery ID’s Bodies in the Water and is...

Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment has promoted Courtney White to president and Glenn Hugill to chief creative officer of the company and president of Wheelhouse Studios.

In addition to continuing to run Butternut, White’s role will expand to include oversight of all Wheelhouse U.S production labels, including Spoke Studios, new true crime production company Twist and Wheelhouse DNA, the company’s digital and audio division. White will also help manage Wheelhouse’s physical production partnerships, including those with chef David Chang’s Majordomo Media and NBA star Anthony Edwards’ Three Fifths Media.

Hugill will now be chief creative officer at Wheelhouse Entertainment and president of Wheelhouse Studios, the company’s new international content hub, in addition to his role heading up the company’s UK operations and serving as chief content officer, which he’s held since January 2023. Hugill will continue to be based out of the company’s London offices,...

Wheelhouse has teamed with Goalhanger, the UK’s largest independent podcast production company, to bring its chart-topping podcast The Rest Is History to television.

Wheelhouse, whose numerous content labels produce series such as Max’s Smartless: On the Road, Netflix’s The Menendez Brothers and King of Collectibles, and Hulu’s upcoming Got to Get Out, will collaborate with Goalhanger to develop unscripted projects based on The Rest Is History and the hit podcast’s growing library (600-plus episodes).

The deal was orchestrated by Wheelhouse EVP of Business Development Fanny Baudry, who also serves as managing director of the company’s digital and audio division (DNA), Wheelhouse EVP of Development Kate Collier and Goalhanger Co-Founder Tony Pastor. Baudry and Collier will oversee the partnership for Wheelhouse. The deal was negotiated by WME (William Morris Endeavor), which represents both Wheelhouse and Goalhanger.

Hosted by lauded British historians-turned-pop-culture-sensations Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook,...

Exclusive: The Rest Is History, one of the biggest podcasts in the world, is set to be adapted for television.

The audio series, which is hosted by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, comes from Goalhanger, the podcast production company founded by former England soccer legend Gary Lineker.

Goalhanger has teamed with Wheelhouse, to develop unscripted projects based on the podcast and its library of over 600 episodes.

Wheelhouse, which was founded by Pawn Stars creator Brent Montgomery, is behind series such as Hulu’s Secret Chef and upcoming Got to Get Out as well as Netflix’s Buying Beverly Hills and King of Collectibles.

The Rest Is History is regularly in the top ten podcasts in the U.S. and gets over 12M downloads a month with around 45,000 paying subscribers. The twice-weekly podcast offers in-depth explorations of a wide range of historical events, people and topics – from the rise of...

The hunt is back on: A&e is rebooting “Duck Dynasty” as “Duck Dynasty: The Revival,” an all-new series based on the Robertson family and set to premiere in summer 2025.

The revival series will follow Willie and Korie and their family of adult children and grandchildren, as the next generation of Robertsons living on their family homestead in Louisiana. The dynasty has expanded to more than just ducks and Willie and Korie must map out the future of Duck Commander. Of course, watching kids navigate marriage, children and businesses of their own will lead to all sorts of hilarious hijinks for which the Robertson family is known.

A&e has ordered 20 one-hour episodes that will be broken down into two 10 episode-seasons. The show will air on A&e this summer, with a second streaming service window following the end of each season, which will be announced at a later date. The...

A&e is rebooting — rebilling? — one of its most popular series from the 2010s with a new iteration of Duck Dynasty.

The new show, titled Duck Dynasty: The Revival, will once again follow the Robertson family as Willie and Korie Robertson focus on plotting the future for the family’s Duck Commander business and watch their own children deal with the challenges of adulthood. A&e has ordered two 10-episode seasons of the show, the first of which is set to premiere in the summer.

The revival of Duck Dynasty will debut some eight years after the original series aired its last episode in March 2017 after 11 seasons in five years. The show was A&e’s — and all of cable TV’s — biggest unscripted series in its heyday, hitting a high of 11.8 million viewers for the season four premiere in August 2013 (which was part of a peak time for cable in...

Duck Dynasty is back – eight years after it was canceled and ended up in the middle of a legal battle.

A&e is bringing the series back with Duck Dynasty: The Revival with a two-season order of 20 episodes in total. It will premiere in the summer.

The new season will focus on Willie and Korie Robertson and their growing family of adult children and grandchildren, the next generation of Robertsons living on the family homestead in Louisiana.

It will not, however, feature Phil Robertson, the controversial patriarch of the family, who has said some things in the past that have been homophobic and was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

The show also has a new production company; it will be produced by Wheelhouse’s Spoke Studios and Willie and Korie Robertson’s Tread Lively Productions.

This comes after legal trouble at Gurney Productions, the ITV-owned company that originally produced the series.

NBA star Anthony Edwards is making a major push into unscripted TV, with his production venture Three-Fifths Media inking a deal with Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse.

Edwards, a star player for the Minnesota Timberwolves, is currently starring in the Netflix docuseries Starting 5. He launched Three-Fifths Media in 2019 with his partner and business manager Justin Holland.

“I love the business we’re building and the content we’re creating, and this partnership with Wheelhouse will help us take a big step forward that we’re really excited about,” Edwards said in a statement.

“We couldn’t ask for a better partner than Wheelhouse,” Holland added. “They are a true teammate and, together, Three-Fifths and Wheelhouse share a vision for the type of content we want to create, and with their support we’re going to be able to deliver incredible projects that are true to Anthony and his interests.”

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Kimmelot and Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment have parted ways as investment partners, according to media reports.

Kimmel pulled his investment in Wheelhouse, which was founded by the “Pawn Stars” producer, and Wheelhouse similarly divested its stake in Kimmel’s production banner. Despite the end of the investment partnership, the companies will continue working together on several series as well as “share resources and partner on a variety of individual projects.”

The news comes a couple months after Wheelhouse Entertainment secured an investment from Jeff Bewkes and Kevin Tsujihara’s investment firm, Alignment Growth. The commitment marked the first outside investment that Wheelhouse has taken since its launch in 2018.

“When Wheelhouse took the equity investment from Alignment Growth, we made the decision to consolidate equity ownership,” representatives for Wheelhouse and Kimmalot said in a joint statement to media. “Jimmy transitioned from an equity partner to a commercial partner.

Exclusive: Netflix has opted not to renew Buying Beverly Hills for a third season. The news comes months after the show’s second season premiered in March.

The unscripted series, which premiered in 2022, centered around Mauricio Umansky and his staff at The Agency, which included his daughters Farrah Brittany and Alexia Umansky.

Sources say the cancellation had to do with the viewing numbers versus the cost of production.

Although Buying Beverly Hills will not move forward, Netflix has similar shows on deck like Selling Sunset, Selling the Oc, and Owning Manhattan.

Season 2 of Buying Beverly Hills leaned into the real-life drama between Umansky and his marriage to Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards. Umansky openly discussed his marital troubles on camera, and the Netflix series also featured several appearances of Richards.

Another issue discussed during the second season was the rift between Umansky and his brother-in-law,...

Jimmy Kimmel’s Kimmelot and Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse have parted ways after six years of business partnership between the late-night host’s production banner and the producer’s startup media and investment venture.

The shift for Kimmelot and Wheelhouse has been in the works for months. Kimmelot’s exit from operating under the Wheelhouse umbrella was anticipated when Wheelhouse did its first round of outside funding earlier this year from Jeff Bewkes’ firm Alignment Growth. It’s understood that Kimmel decided it was time for the company to transition out of Wheelhouse, where Kimmelot was founded in 2018, to a fully independent status. The partners cast the move as amicable and noted that both companies will remain in business together on existing projects.

“When Wheelhouse took the equity investment from Alignment Growth, we made the decision to consolidate equity ownership,” Wheelhouse and Kimmalot said in a joint statement. “Jimmy transitioned...

Jimmy Kimmel is forging a new path with his production company.

Kimmel has divested his stake in Wheelhouse Entertainment, the production group founded by Pawn Stars producer Brent Montgomery, and Wheelhouse similarly no longer owns a stake in the late-night comedian’s production company Kimmelot.

The move comes after Alignment Growth, the investment vehicle run by Jeff Bewkes and Kevin Tsujihara, acquired a minority stake in Wheelhouse earlier this year, the first outside investment that Wheelhouse took since its launch.

Montgomery launched Wheelhouse Entertainment in January 2018 after he stepped down as CEO of ITV America, the U.S. arm of the company that acquired his group Leftfield Entertainment for $360M in 2014.

Kimmel came on board in November 2018 as a partner as he launched his own production company, Kimmelot, in partnership with Wheelhouse, taking an equity stake in the overall business at the time.

The two companies will continue to work...

Sean Gallagher, one of the founders of Say Yes to the Dress producer Half Yard Productions who spent over a decade at Discovery, died July 19 of cancer. He was 57..

Gallagher was heralded as a “pioneer” of reality television and a “kingmaker” as the industry took shape in its early years. Friends and colleagues including Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav and former A+E Networks CEO Nancy Dubuc paid tribute to Gallagher.

Gallagher founded Half Yard Productions in 2006 with Abby Greensfelder. In addition to TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress, the company made hundreds of hours of unscripted television including Bravo’s The Real Housewives of D.C., Animal Planet’s Hillbilly Handfishin’ and Discovery’s American Loggers and The Last Alaskans, Nat Geo’s Diggers and History’s How The States Got Their Shapes.

Before launching the Bethesda-based company, he spent over ten years working at Discovery. He started as an AP,...

Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment has brought on “Dr. Pimple Popper” producer Whitney White as executive vice president of development at its food and lifestyle division Butternut, and promoted Liz Fine to EVP of programming for Wheelhouse proper.

The leadership additions come on the heels of Wheelhouse launching its new crime and investigative brand Twist and following the company receiving a minority investment from private equity firm Alignment Growth.

Working under Butternut president Courtney White, Whitney White will oversee and create IP, working with existing and emerging talent in the food, home and lifestyle arena. Wheelhouse’s current slate of Butternut series include Food Network’s “Next Baking Master: Paris,” HGTV’s “Divided by Design” and Roku’s “Celebrity Family Food Battle,” as well as other currently unannounced projects.

Best known for creating TLC’s hit series “Dr. Pimple Popper” while head of development at Ping Pong Productions, Whitney White...

Exclusive: Jane Latman, who spent 20 years at Discovery, is getting back into the true-crime business.

Latman has launched Twist, a new crime and investigation production label, with Wheelhouse Entertainment.

It comes 18 months after she left Warner Bros. Discovery as part of a restructure of Kathleen Finch’s U.S. Networks Group.

Latman was most recently head of HGTV and Food Network but she was also on the founding team of crime cable network Investigation Discovery (ID), where she spent a dozen years and led development.

She is the latest former Warner Bros. Discovery executive to set up a production company with Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse. In June 2022, former Food Network boss Courtney White launched lifestyle banner Butternut with Wheelhouse. Latman, in fact, took over running the food-focused cable network after White’s departure.

Latman, who will be based in New York, will serve as President of the company.

She joined...

Exclusive: Spoke Studios, the Wheelhouse production company behind series including Netflix’s Buying Beverly Hills, is looking for a new boss after the departure of Pam Healey.

Healey has been President of the company for the last two and Deadline understands that she is moving on.

Spoke Studios is behind series including food show Secret Chef, social experiment Got To Get Out and reality series Love & WWE: Bianca & Montez at Hulu and King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, which has been renewed for a second season at Netflix.

“We appreciate Pam’s contributions over the last two years. Wheelhouse’s deep bench of creative executives continue to drive our current wave of success with new sales and renewals. We are deeply engaged in the search for the long-term leader of our flagship prodco to join our exceptional team,” Wheelhouse CEO Brent Montgomery said.

It comes as Wheelhouse recently secured its first outside investment.

Could renowned attractions such as the London Eye or the Sea Life aquariums be getting their own TV shows?

That’s part of the plan following a new partnership between Brent Montgomery’s media company Wheelhouse and Merlin Entertainment.

Under the deal, announced Thursday, Wheelhouse and Merlin will develop “original entertainment” programs inspired by the various global attractions in Merlin’s portfolio, including The London Eye and Sea Life, plus Alton Towers, Chessington’s World of Adventures and Warwick Castle. The companies said the programs developed would “span a diverse range of genres, including reality, documentary and game show.”

Merlin owns over 140 attractions across 23 countries, more landmarks than any other entertainment destinations company. Wheelhouse, meanwhile, is behind original series for Netflix, Hulu and Max, as well as a wide variety of U.S. cable and broadcast networks. Prior to launching Wheelhouse, Montgomery was CEO of ITV America, which produces international...

Wheelhouse is getting ready for a rollercoaster ride.

Brent Montgomery’s company has entered into a partnership with UK-based theme park and attractions firm Merlin Entertainments. This will see the pair working to develop a slate of original unscripted TV programs based around Merlin’s suite of attractions.

Merlin owns 140+ attractions in 23 countries. Its most notable operations are theme parks such as Alton Towers and Thorpe Park, and its Gateway Attractions brand portfolio, which includes Sea Life, The London Dungeons, Legoland, Warwick Castle, Madame Tussauds and the Peppa Pig Theme Park.

These will be the basis for TV programs that will span several genres, including reality, documentary and game show.

Glenn Hugill, Wheelhouse’s Chief Content Officer and President of the company’s UK division, will oversee the Wheelhouse-Merlin slate.

Furthermore, the collaboration will integrate talent and digital strategies through Wheelhouse DNA, Wheelhouse’s creator-focused division, and talent-management arm Additive Creative.

Wheelhouse, the production, content and talent management firm founded by Brent Montgomery, has secured an investment from Alignment Growth, the firm founded the former Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes and former Warner Bros. Entertainment chief Kevin Tsujihara.

Terms of the funding round weren’t disclosed, but Bewkes will join the board of the company, which owns Spoke Studios, Campfire, Butternut and Additive Creative Partners, and has production deals with Jimmy Kimmel’s Kimmelot and David Chang’s Majordomo.

The company plans to use the fresh cash to attract new talent and pursue strategic acquisitions.

“We are building Wheelhouse as a collective of global creatives who not only shine on their own, but truly want to partner with one another across labels and divisions so we’re thrilled that Alignment’s investment will allow us to supersize our efforts engaging talent in front of and behind the camera,” Montgomery said in a statement.

Brent Montgomery’s media company Wheelhouse has secured its first outside round of funding, landing a minority investment from former Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes’ investment firm Alignment Growth.

As part of the transaction, Bewkes — who founded Alignment with Alex Iosilevich and Kevin Tsujihara — will be joining Wheelhouse’s board of directors.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Wheelhouse says the size of the investment from Alignment “will enable Wheelhouse to build an infrastructure that attracts industry-leading talent and accelerates growth via strategic acquisitions.”

Founded in 2018 by Montgomery, who was then coming off his sale of Leftfield Entertainment to ITV in 2014, and Jimmy Kimmel, Wheelhouse assets currently include Spoke Studios, Campfire, Butternut, Wheelhouse UK and DNA. Additionally, Wheelhouse has production partnerships with Kimmel’s Kimmelot and celebrity chef David Chang’s Majordomo Media.

Wheelhouse-produced series include Netflix’s “King of Collectibles” from executive producer Peyton Manning, “Buying Beverly Hills” and “Players,...

There’s a new entry to the red-hot collectibles market.

Brent Montgomery is teaming with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian to launch Mantel, a content platform created specifically for collectors of sports cards and memorabilia, comics, cars, watches and more.

Wheelhouse, the media and marketing company founded by Montgomery (Pawn Stars, King of Collectibles), and Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six tech and venture capital firm, launched the platform Tuesday in beta. The site will serve as a social media platform that will focus first on sports cards and memorabilia as well as trading card games (like Pokemon and Magic the Gathering, for example) before expanding to other facets of the collectibles industry. The site will also feature real-time discussion and connectivity with experts in the collecting space as well as original content, creating a one-stop shop for collectors, investors and more.

Evan Parker, the former Gm at The Athletic, serves as CEO of Mantel.

Acf Investment Bank, which helped with the sale of Pilgrim Studios to Lionsgate and Charlie Brooker’s Broke & Bones to Netflix, has a new majority owner.

Merchant bank The Forest Road Company has acquired a majority stake in the company, which was founded by Thomas Dey and Richard Gray in 2010. It adds a media and entertainment arm to Forest Road’s existing advisory business.

Acf, which has offices in the U.S. and UK, was also behind the recent sale of The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit IP to Embracer Group and the sale of Brent Montgomery’s Leftfield to ITV.

It will continue operating under the Acf brand with CEO Dey continue to run the business. Jeremy Tarica, Forest Road Securities CEO, will work with Acf to integrate it into the broader business.

Tarica said, “We are thrilled to welcome Acf to the Forest Road family, with...

Additive Creative, an influencer-focused talent management agency, has added 18 new creators to its client roster. The agency is part of Wheelhouse DNA, the digital and audio branch of Brent Montgomery and Jimmy Kimmel’s media company Wheelhouse.

Additive said these 18 digital creators have more than 22 million followers on their social media platforms all together. The company’s new clients are:

Lifestyle TikTok star Michael Sanzone

Pop culture correspondent and host of “Pucker Up” Joely Live

Travel vlogger Rin Rudd

Fashion creator known for her “get ready with me” videos Nicole DeLaFuente

The fan-dubbed “Food King of Texas” Dre Hopkins

Star of Netflix’s “Too Hot to Handle” James Pendergrass

Swedish TikTok duo Isa Heriksson and Nina Lundberg

Fashion and lifestyle influencer Sophie Telegadis

Social media comic Ryan Benji

Lifestyle and fitness influencer Julia Ernst

Social media chef Irene Walton

Digital news reporter Anna Hein

Motivational speaker Brandon Farbstein

Star of...

Hulu has ordered a new social experiment competition series “Got to Get Out” from Wheelhouse.

The format will showcase participants living in a mansion for 10 days as they vie for a cash prize that increases by $1 each second they’re in the game. As contestants compete in physical and mental challenges, more money will be added to “the pot,” with up to $1 million at stake.

Upon completing the series, participants will be given the choice to take an equal share of prize money, or they can attempt to steal it all for themselves. To steal the pot, they’ll have to escape the mansion via its front gate — but in this game, getting out is easier said than done.

At random intervals, the gate will open and a getaway car will appear for contestants to attempt to leave with “the pot” while contestants will have opportunities to block others’ attempted exits.

Hulu has ordered Got to Get Out, a competition series from Wheelhouse that was created by Glenn Hugill, the president of Wheelhouse’s UK arm.

The Big Brother-like series will consist of 10, hour-long episodes and feature participants living together in a mansion for 10 days while they compete in physical and mental challenges. Participants can stick together and take an equal share of the prize money at the end of their stay, or they can choose to go rogue and attempt to steal the full pot of money for themselves.

To win the $1 million prize, contestants have to escape the mansion via a single exit: the front gate. However, in this game, getting out is easier said than done. At various times during the game, the gate will open and a getaway car will arrive, presenting an opportunity for cast members to betray their comrades...

Hulu is jumping into the competition-series game with a series that will put people in a house and pit them against one another for a big cash prize.

Big Brother? Nope. The Traitors? Also no. The Disney-run streamer has ordered Got to Get Out, a competition show/”social experiment” with echoes of the prisoner’s dilemma — the thought experiment where people can work together for mutual benefit or go solo for a potentially greater reward. The show comes from creator Glenn Hugill and the U.K. arm of Jimmy Kimmel and Brent Montgomery’s company, Wheelhouse. A premiere date hasn’t been set.

Got to Get Out will feature contestants living in a mansion for 10 days, with a pool of prize money rising by $1 every second (there are 864,000 seconds in 10 days). The players will also work together on challenges to increase the prize money up to $1 million. They can stick...

Hulu has ordered 10 episodes of a new social experiment series from Glenn Hugill, creator of “Deal or No Deal,” “The Mole” and “Puzzling.”

The competition series, currently titled “Got to Get Out,” will “test the loyalties of a group of strangers vying for a major payday,” according to the official logline. Participants will live in a mansion together for 10 days as they compete for a cash prize that increases by $1 per each second that the contestants are there. A total of $1 million is at stake as physical and mental challenges add even more cash to the prize.

Throughout the competition, “participants can stick together and take an equal share of the prize money at the end of their stay – or they can choose to go rogue and attempt to steal the full pot of money for themselves,” per the logline.

To win the full pot, participants have to exit the...

Ken Goldin is on the hunt for more collectibles.

Netflix has renewed unscripted series King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch for a second season.

The show follows Goldin and his team at Goldin Auctions, an auction house for trading cards, rare collectibles and memorabilia.

The first season featured celebrities including Drake, Logan Paul, Karl Malone and Mike Tyson, who sold a pair of boxing trunks worn on the front of Nintendo game Punch-Out! for over $34,000.

The series is produced by Wheelhouse’s Spoke Studios, Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions and Connor Schell’s Full Day.

Brent Montgomery, Pam Healey, Will Nothacker, Peyton Manning, Connor Schell, Dave Chamberlain, Ian Sambor, Russ Friedman and Gardner Reed exec produce. Sambor serves as showrunner.

Watch Goldin’s announcement below.

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It’s a wrap for Buying Beverly Hills Season 2 filming. The Netflix occu-series has concluded filming for the second season of the show that follows agents and clients within Mauricio Umansky’s real estate company The Agency in Beverly Hills.

Umansky’s daughter Alexia Umansky shared a post on Instagram Stories confirming the cast had finished the principal filming of the series.

“That’s a wrap!! Bbh S2,” read the caption.

In the photo, Alexia is seen in the far right next to her sister Sophia in red and her eldest sister Farrah Brittany posing with two other cast members.

Alexia Umansky shares Instagram Story

Buying Beverly Hills Season 1 premiered on November 4, 2022, with Netflix dropping all eight episodes all at once. Umansky leads the show working alongside his daughters Farrah and Alexia, who is dipping her toes in the family business proving she’s got the abilities to be the next realtor star.

Celebrity chef David Chang has signed a production deal with Brent Montgomery and Jimmy Kimmel’s Wheelhouse.

Previously under a production agreement with Vox Media, Chang’s banner, Majordomo Media, has set a pact with Wheelhouse, a producer on Chang’s latest Hulu series, “Secret Chef,” to exclusively develop and produce unscripted programming across food, home and lifestyle, among other genres.

Wheelhouse and Chang are also focused on creating original content and developing new talent for his new Fast channel, MajordomoTV, co-developed with LG Electronics.

Culinary programming produced under the deal will be filmed out of Majordomo Media’s new 6,000-square-foot studio in downtown Los Angeles’s Row Dtla, which includes two kitchens designed specifically for filming.

As part of their new partnership, Wheelhouse and Majordomo plan to put “significant focus and resources” to consumer product development. With Chang citing the work done by Wheelhouse’s in-house creative and marketing arm,...

Exclusive: Wheelhouse DNA, Canada’s Frederator Studios and social media comedy star Adam Waheed are joining forces for an animated comedy series.

We hear the unnamed series is now in development ahead of production, marking the first partnership between Wheelhouse DNA and Frederator and series writing and starring debut for Waheed, who’s better known as Adam W.

Set in ancient Egypt where the gods are real, aliens built the pyramids and the afterlife exists, the 10-episode series follows a lovable royal buffoon (Waheed) who finds himself suddenly thrust on the throne.

Waheed co-created the series with Spencer Strasmore, and the pair are now developing a slate of digital, TV and film projects. Strasmore was previously a producer and development exec at Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson’s production company Unrealistic Ideas.

Waheed is one of social media’s biggest comedy stars, with an accumulated 11.5 billion views in 2022 alone.

Wheelhouse UK Wins First Commission With Channel 5’s ‘Puzzling’

Jimmy Kimmel and Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse has secured its first UK commission, a Channel 5 quiz format produced with ITV Studios-backed 12 Yard. In Puzzling [working title], broadcaster and historian Lucy Worsley will challenge Britain’s brightest minds across five rounds on language, calculation, lateral thinking, visual intelligence and memory. In a dramatic plot twist, the winning team then turn on each other to be named the ‘Best of the Best’ and earn a place in the series Grand Final, where the winner will be crowned. The series is the first revealed commission for Wheelhouse’s UK arm, which is helmed by former Deal or No Deal producer Glenn Hugill, who set it up earlier this year. 12 Yard is co-producer. Channel 5 rarely dabbles in quiz formats but recently picked up Eggheads, another high-end quizshow that used to air on BBC Two.

Mauricio Umansky and The Agency are opening the doors for a second season.

Netflix has renewed Buying Beverly Hills for a second run, coming after the property reality series launched in November.

The show follows Umansky’s The Agency in Beverly Hills, California and the agents and clients selling property in the desired 90210 zip code and surrounding area.

Umansky, who has sold houses owned by the likes of Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan and Prince, runs the agency with his daughters Farrah and Alexia. He’s a well-known figure in reality TV, being married to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards.

The series is produced by Wheelhouse’s Spoke Studios and Just Entertainment and exec produced by Brent Montgomery, Pam Healey, Will Nothacker, Justin W. Hochberg, Liz Fine, Adam Sher, Deanna Markoff, Ed Simpson and Luke Neslage.

On April 28, Netflix will take viewers inside the world of rare sports cards and collectibles with one of the industry’s best-known experts: Ken Goldin.

Goldin and his team at Goldin Auctions will be the centerpiece of the newest transactional TV series, King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, a six-episode, half-hour series that offers a first look into the hobby that has turned into a multibillion-dollar business as stars and athletes turn to Goldin to buy and sell rare collectibles.

In the exclusive first look at the series, featured below, Goldin works with athletes including Joe Montana, Peyton Manning (who also exec produces the show) and Mike Tyson. Viewers get a peek into the auction house that features incredible collectibles like a game-worn Jackie Robinson jersey and other high-end items, including Jim Morrison’s ID, the first Apple computer and a signed Michael Jordan uniform. Think of King of Collectibles...

Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, the fake heiress who was the subject of Netflix’s Inventing Anna, is to host a celebrity dinner club series.

The controversial character has teamed up with Wheelhouse and Butternut, the production set up by former Food Network boss Courtney White and Brent Montgomery’s company, to produce Delvey’s Dinner Club (w/t).

Currently under house arrest in a New York City East Village apartment after being released from Ice custody last October for overstaying her visa, after completing her criminal sentence, Delvey is hosting invitation-only, intimate dinners at her home.

The series will feature a group of actors, musicians, founders, socialites, journalists and other guests to have candid conversations including her own experience within the criminal justice system, her strategy to rebuild her image and her plans for the future.

Through fly-on-the-wall footage and interviews with Anna and her guests, Delvey’s Dinner Club will...

Launch

Jimmy Kimmel and Brent Montgomery’s media company Wheelhouse has launched London-headquartered Wheelhouse U.K. “Deal or No Deal” producer Glenn Hugill, formerly with ITV Studios’ Possessed TV, will serve as president of the U.K. entity and as chief content officer at Wheelhouse Entertainment, working closely with chief creative officer Scott Lonker and programming executive VP Will Nothacker, across Wheelhouse’s U.S.-based production entities, Spoke Studios, Kimmelot, Butternut, Campfire Studios and Portal A.

From Possessed, Hugill brings with him to Wheelhouse U.K. Nick Mather, who will serve as creative director, Matt Floyd as head of development and Jack Borgeat as development producer.

Wheelhouse U.K. and ITV Studios have inked a multi-year production and distribution deal through which all series developed by Hugill and commissioned in the U.K. will be produced by ITV Studios-housed labels. The team will work with ITV Studios’ director of unscripted Angela Jain on U.

Exclusive: Gary Vaynerchuk, internet marketing expert and Resy founder, has teamed with former CAA agent and Wheelhouse exec Eric Wattenberg and Matt Higgins, who co-founded investment firm Rse Ventures with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen M. Ross, to launch a new production studio.

The trio are launching VaynerWatt.

The company will produce original long and short-form content for linear networks and streaming services.

It marks the first TV production company for Vaynerchuk, the founder of communications company VaynerX, who is best known for his work in digital marketing.

Wattenberg, who will be CEO of the new company, joins from Wheelhouse, the company set up by Brent Montgomery, where he was Chief Content Officer. Prior to joining Wheelhouse, he was Co-Head of Alternative Television at CAA, where he represented talents including Kelly Ripa, Andy Cohen, Nick Cannon and Billy Porter. It was via CAA that Wattenberg and Vaynerchuk met.

Higgins, who appeared...