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Courtney White, the former president of Food Network, is partnering with Wheelhouse and CEO Brent Montgomery to create food, home and lifestyle content under the new Butternut hub. As president of Butternut, White will collaborate with Wheelhouse leadership and across all Wheelhouse divisions – including Wheelhouse…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran unscripted producer and executive Pam Healey has been named president of Wheelhouse Entertainment’s flagship production company Spoke Studios. Based in Los Angeles, the former Shed Media and High Noon executive will lead all creative efforts and growth strategies for the prodco. Among Spoke’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Brent Montgomery's Wheelhouse Group has acquired a majority stake in Campfire, the production company set up by Ross Dinerstein and responsible for projects including Netflix's John Grisham doc series The Innocent Man. The deal is the latest acquisition for Montgomery's firm, which last month bought a…

Brent Montgomery has set the senior leadership team for his Wheelhouse Entertainment banner, adding five key hires to the company’s growing ranks. All five will work in tandem with recently named President of Wheelhouse Entertainment Sean Cohan, and Chief Strategy Officer Ed Simpson. Former ESPN strategy and business…

A+E Networks’ President of International and Digital Media Sean Cohan is leaving the company after 15 years to become president of Wheelhouse Entertainment, part of Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Group. The appointment comes on the heels of Wheelhouse launching Kimmelot, a joint venture with Jimmy Kimmel who also…

Jimmy Kimmel has teamed with entrepreneur and producer Brent Montgomery to launch media company Kimmelot as a joint venture with Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment. As part of the agreement, Kimmel also will become a partner in Wheelhouse Entertainment, the company Montgomery started in January 2018 after stepping…

Former ITV America CEO Brent Montgomery has set the top executive team for Spoke Studios, the production label for his recently announced Wheelhouse Entertainment. Will Nothacker and Joe Weinstock have been named co-presidents of Spoke Studios and will partner in running the company from Spoke Studios' East and West…

Brent Montgomery has revealed full details of his post-ITV America venture, launching a dual coast media company, Wheelhouse Entertainment, and its first production division, Spoke Studios. This comes after Montgomery stepped down as Chief Executive of the U.S. division of the British broadcaster and studio last week…

Updated: David George internal email.  Brent Montgomery is to step down as Chief Executive of ITV America to launch his own production company – three and a half years after the British broadcaster paid $360M to buy his Pawn Stars production company Leftfield and two years after handing him the top U.S…

A consortium of top media and finance companies and executives are teaming with New York State Assemblyman Francisco Moya (D-39), Chair of the Commission on Science and Technology, to develop Queens MediaWorks, a new hub for non-fiction production, based in Queens, New York. Founding partners of the project are Brent M…

ITV this morning officially announced that Brent Montgomery, founder and CEO of ITV-owned Leftfield Entertainment, has been appointed CEO of ITV Studios U.S. Group, which is being renamed ITV America. ITV Studios acquired a controlling stake in Leftfield last year. As part of today’s restructuring, ITV has acquired…

Leftfield Entertainment founder and CEO Brent Montgomery is reportedly set to take over the role of head of ITV Studios U.S. Group. Montgomery, who is the creator and exec producer of global hit reality series Pawn Stars, would replace Paul Buccieri who exited as Chairman late last year to become President of A&E and…