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The Alliance of American Football, an off-season upstart looking to offer a complementary spring alternative to the NFL has suspended operations after just eight weeks of games. Bill Polian, a former NFL GM who co-founded the AAF with Charlie Ebersol, said the new league’s chief investor, Tom Dundon, had decided to…

Are you ready for some more football? As the NFL struggles with ratings and other issues on and off the field, a new pro football league is ready to suit up in just 11 months. And no, it’s not the XFL. The Alliance of American Football today announced a February 9 kickoff and a TV deal with CBS. Billed as “a shift in…

Charlie Ebersol and Mike Lanigan's The Company has promoted veteran production executive Tony Testa to President. In his previous role as SVP production and business affairs, Testa has been overseeing all aspects of The Company's production, development and network agreements for the past seven years. In his new role…

Charlie Ebersol and Mike Lanigan's The Company have partnered with Abe Rakov, executive director of Let America Vote and campaign manager for Jason Kander's 2016 U.S. Senate run, to launch a political advertising division. Rakov will develop strategic television ad campaigns for candidates under the production…

ESPN Films will premiere 30 for 30 documentary This Was the XFL on February, 2 at PM ET, three days ahead of Super Bowl LI. Directed by Charlie Ebersol, This Was The XFL chronicles the short-lived, ill-fated pro football league and features Ebersol’s dad, longtime NBC sports chief Dick Ebersol, and Vince McMahon. In…

Charlie Ebersol and Mike Lanigan's The Company is expanding its relationship with its head of unscripted development Jason Henry, signing him to a two-year overall deal. Under the exclusive pact, Henry — whose credits include Fear Factor, Wipeout, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution — will develop unscripted television…

They Took Our Child: We Got Her Back tells the stories of abducted children who escaped from the hands of their kidnappers; and the families who never gave up hope on getting them home safely. The seven-episode hourlong series is set to premiere Wednesday, October 7 at 10 PM on LMN, a division of A+E Networks. Each…

Following the success of The Profit, CNBC is reteaming with the show’s producer, Charlie Ebersol, for a new reality series, West Texas Investors Club. It is one of three new unscripted series ordered by the network, along with Blue Collar Millionaires, from SallyAnn Salsano’s 495 Prods. and Make Me a Millionaire Invent…

Charlie Ebersol and Mike Lanigan’s The Company and the NFL, in partnership with The Black List, have chosen scribes John Arends of Chicago and Jeff Williams of Wake Forest, NC, to develop a feature about American football. Arends and Williams will receive a two-step WGA minimum blind script deal to pen the NFL-themed…

The Company, which Charlie Ebersol founded with Mike Lanigan, has named veteran corporate strategist Austin Katz COO. He will be responsible for strategic planning, business development and operations at the production outfit. "Austin’s many successes in working with some of the world's biggest brands makes him the…

EXCLUSIVE: What’s up, doc? A broken nose. Ouch! After he recovers from the injury suffered in last night’s game, NBA MVP LeBron James will be ready for his close-up — with Bugs Bunny. Broadcasting veteran Dick Ebersol‘s sons have come on board to develop the sequel to 1996 animated/live-action hit Space Jam as a…