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Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s shortform video platform Quibi is entering the world of women’s wrestling with Fight Like a Girl, an unscripted series toplined by WWE Superstars, from WWE Studios and Critical Content. In each episode, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon pairs a WWE star with a young woman…

Viacom's BET is exploring the men and women on the front lines fighting police brutality and injustice in a ten-part series from Critical Content-backed Renowned Films. Copwatch America marks the biggest commission to date for the British production company, which has offices in LA and which Tom Forman's Critical owns…

A U.S. version of hit music/dating show Love At First Song based on South Korea’s CJ ENM's TV format is being developed by Critical Content, John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co. and American Idol and Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings producer Simon Lythgoe and his Legacy Productions. Love At First Song originally premiered on…

Critical Content has tapped former ITV Studios America executive Sam Zoda as EVP and Head of Production, along with making other senior-level exec hires and promotions. The appointments follow Critical Content’s acquisition of the TV assets of Jenny Daly’s T Group Productions in November, spearheaded by the…

Independent reality producer Critical Content (formerly Relativity Television) has closed a deal to acquire the assets of T Group Productions, the unscripted production company founded in 2010 by Jenny Daly. Following the transaction, Daly has been named President, Critical Content Studios, a new role where she will…

Renowned Films, the Critical Content-owned UK production company behind Bravo's forthcoming reality series Backyard Envy, has hired a number of senior executives as it steps up its next stage of growth including a major focus on the U.S. The company, which was set up by Max Welch, Duane Jones and Tim Withers in 2012…

StartUp creator Ben Ketai has teamed with the companies behind the Crackle tech drama, Critical Content and Hollywood Gang, to develop and produce a TV series based on The Terror author Dan Simmons' dystopian novel Flashback. The deal indicates that the reality-focused Critical Content, which just underwent a reorganiz…

EXCLUSIVE: Unscripted series producer Critical Content has reduced its full-time staff by approximately 35% in what the company describes as a reorganization which reflects the changes in the marketplace and is focused on growth. "Our industry is rapidly evolving where TV, digital, and branded platforms are…

In a move towards international, LA-based Critical Content has made a strategic investment in UK production company Renowned Films. Founded in 2012, Renowned makes unscripted, factual entertainment, features and documentaries for TV and digital. Back in 2015, Channel 4 took a share of the company that was launched by…

With the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department seeking an apology over one of their officers incorrectly being seen in Fox’s September 24 airing Who Shot Biggie & Tupac? documentary, the network has now said it “regrets the error.” "In Who Shot Biggie & Tupac? a photo of Los Angeles Sheriff Department Commander…

Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention, is being adapted as a television series by Critical Content and writer David Matthews (Boardwalk Empire, Tyrant). Matthews will pen the adaptation with Critical Content’s Tom Forman, Andrew Marcus, Ray Ricord and Jon Schwartz…

Shudder, the premium genre streaming service backed by AMC Networks, has acquired North American and UK/Ireland rights to German mystery-thriller series The Valley. This is the first one-hour original production for Germany’s TNT Series and is part of a trend of non-English-language dramas making their way to…