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EXCLUSIVE: 3 Ball Productions, the company behind Paramount Network's Bar Rescue, is developing a U.S. version of pandemic-proof Belgian competition series The Container Cup. In a competitive situation, the company, which previously produced The Biggest Loser, optioned the rights to the Belgian format, which was…

EXCLUSIVE: Bar Rescue producer 3 Ball Entertainment has established a new parent company designed to incubate a slew of production joint ventures. 3 Ball Entertainment Chairman Reinout Oerlemans and CEO Ross Weintraub have launched 3BMG to incubate, foster and support a number of established and emerging unscripted…

Ross Weintraub, who has served as co-CEO of 3 Ball Entertainment with Todd A. Nelson since 2015, has re-upped with the company as sole CEO. Nelson, who co-founded 3 Ball Productions (now 3 Ball Entertainment) in 2001, is pivoting back to his creative and producing roots via a first-look deal with 3 Ball, while also…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Bunim/Murray co-president Jeff Jenkins is teaming with 3 Ball Entertainment to launch Jeff Jenkins Productions, a full-service content and production company aiming to create unscripted docuseries and formats, including celebrity-based projects, for linear and digital platforms. Jenkins will run the…

Venus Williams is teaming with Bar Rescue producer 3 Ball Entertainment on a new unscripted female-focused business series Deals in Heels (working title). The tennis icon, entrepreneur and Olympic gold medalist will appear in and executive produce the series, alongside 3 Ball executive producers Todd A. Nelson, Ross…

Todd Nelson is staying is business with 3 Ball Entertainment. The co-founder of the company behind such hit unscripted franchises as Bar Rescue and For Love or Money, has re-upped as CEO for two more years, alongside his co-CEO Ross Weintraub. Nelson co-founded 3 Ball Productions (now 3 Ball Entertainment) in 2003…

Defy Media and 3 Ball Entertainment (Bar Rescue, Extreme Weight Loss) are teaming to develop and produce original programming to be distributed on Defy's YouTube channels. Their first project, How It’s Destroyed, an original concept developed by 3 Ball, will air later year on Defy’s AWEme channel. Original series How I…

Health entertainment network Z Living has closed a development deal with 3 Ball Entertainment (Bar Rescue, Extreme Weight Loss), the first under Z Living General Manager Rafe Oller who took over as GM in September.  The pact initially puts three original series into development, The Big Fat Truth, Finding Fido and Home…

What if that famous singer on the radio was just another guy from the neighborhood? TWC-Dimension is teaming with Jon Bon Jovi on If I Wasn't A Rock Star, a reality series that sends stars back to their hometowns to meet their “civilian alter egos” and see how their lives might have been if they hadn't pursed their…

Almost a year after Warner Bros. TV Group acquired the entire 15-market company portfolio of Netherlands-based Eyeworks except for Eyeworks USA, the Manhattan Beach, CA-based U.S. outpost is changing its name and announcing new corporate structure under chairman Reinout Oerlemans. Eyeworks USA was the product of…