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Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens' independent TV studio Propagate has secured a significant financial investment from global merchant bank, The Raine Group. The exact amount was undisclosed but will be used by Propagate to accelerate the company's global growth. That will include the launch of new ventures and…

Iconic Jamaican music and its local and global impact will be the subject of a new TV series from Narcos showrunner/executive producer Eric Newman; producer Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO of Propagate Content (Apple’s Planet of the Apps); and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. Written by Sascha Penn (Power)…

Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens’s independent TV studio Propagate has launched an international distribution division to be led by veteran sales and acquisitions executive Cyrus Farrokh who will serve as president. He comes from another indie TV company, Electus, which was founded by Silverman who served as chairman…

ABC is developing Let's Stay Together, a single-camera comedy from Sex and the City alumna Amy B. Harris and producers Ben Silverman (Jane the Virgin) and Jordan Schur (Warrior). Written by Harris, the project is inspired by the 2014 The New Divorce Is No Divorce column by Richard Kirshenbaum, part of of his monthly…

CBS has put in development Jumpmen, an hourlong drama from former The Good Wife executive producer Craig Turk and Jane the Virgin executive producer Ben Silverman. Co-written and executive produced by Turk and Grant Thompson (McFarland USA), Jumpmen centers on Air Force pararescue jumpers who find, treat, and recover…

CBS could be breaking new ground for Asian-American actors with Exhibit A, a legal drama from former Castle co-showrunner Alexi Hawley, Hawaii Five-0 co-star Daniel Dae Kim and Jane The Virgin producer Ben Silverman. The project, written by Hawley, is based on the South Korean series My Lawyer, Mr. Jo. It centers on a…

EXCLUSIVE: The truth that is sometimes more frightening than fiction is coming to Amazon with the streaming service announcing at New York Comic-Con today that it has picked up acclaimed podcast Lore as a series. The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Entertainment and Propagate Content…

Jane the Virgin recurring guest star Diane Guerrero has partnered with three key auspices behind the CW dramedy — executive producer/showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman, executive producer Ben Silverman and executive producer/writer Paul Sciarrotta — for In the Country We Love, a drama project that has been set up at…

After months of speculation and negotiations, Reveille and Electus founder Ben Silverman has officially teamed up with his former close associate Howard T. Owens at his A+E Networks-backed independent production company Propagate Content. Silverman has been named Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Owens, who had…

UPDATED: Ben Silverman is officially on his own. The Electus founder Silverman has departed the IAC company after a separation agreement was finalized and his ownership interest was bought out. He has made his first sale post-Electus, teaming with former associate Howard T. Owens and entrepreneur Will.i.am for for a…

Will Ben Silverman, founder of Reveille and Electus, start anew, launching a third production company? I hear Silverman is at the end of a negotiating window with Electus’ parent company, Barry Diller’s IAC, as his contract is coming up. But unlike the 2013 renegotiations, when Silverman ended up re-upping, I hear he…

Jane The Virgin executive producer Ben Silverman has teamed with the sophomore CW series’ co-executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff for No Tomorrow, another hourlong comedy for the CW from CBS TV Studios and Electus. Like Jane, No Tomorrow is based on a Latin American format, this time from Brazil’s Grupo Globo…