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Critical Content, the largely unscripted producer behind series including MTV's Catfish and Kevin Hart-fronted Celebrity Game Face, has been acquired by Crazy Rich Asians producer SK Global. It comes as Deadline understands that the Tom Forman-run company was an acquisition target last year with multiple bidders…

EXCLUSIVE: The film and TV arm of Quality Control, the record label behind artists including hip hop artists including Lil Yachty and Migos, has struck an unscripted TV partnership with Catfish and Celebrity Game Face producer Critical Content. The deal will see the two companies develop unscripted series for these…

EXCLUSIVE: The controversial death Eazy-E, frontman of groundbreaking rap group NWA, is to be explored in a new docuseries. WEtv has ordered The Mysterious Death of Eazy-E and the four-part limited series will investigate the gangsta rap icon's 1995. It comes from Critical Content. Eazy-E, otherwise known as Eric Lynn…

EXCLUSIVE: Television personality and money expert Nicole Lapin and Entrepreneur magazine editor-in-chief Jason Feifer have entered into a development deal with Tom Forman’s independent content studio Critical Content to expand their brand of entertaining money content into television. Lapin and Feifer are the hosts…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Palmer is a former electrician who moved into the LA super-mansion built by Aaron and Candy Spelling after he became engaged to Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone. His life, and work as a home staffing expert, is now set to be the subject of a docuseries being developed by Renowned Films, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Critical Content, a leading independent nonfiction production studio, is forming a TV development deal with Wham-O, maker of classic toys like the Frisbee Disc, Hula Hoop and Slip 'N Slide. Under the pact, the two companies will develop and create live-action TV content built around Wham-O brands. The first…

Dierks Bentley is set to star in and executive produce Hot Country Knights, a mockumentary series about the parody group he has fronted since 2015 with members of his road band. Critical Content is producing the 10-episode shortform series about the band that skewers 1990s country music. Here’s what to expect: After…

The Masked Singer exec producer Craig Plestis is bringing another Korean format to U.S. screens with Mayim Bialik fronting an adaptation of talent competition My Little Television for TBS. The cable network has greenlit the show, known as Celebrity Show-Off in the U.S., which sees celebrities compete to see who can…

EXCLUSIVE: Leah Remini, creator, host and producer of A+E’s Emmy-winning docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, has signed an exclusive first-look deal with independent content studio Critical Content to develop and produce unscripted programming through her No Seriously production company. Under the…

Renowned Films, the Critical Content-backed unscripted producer behind Bravo’s Backyard Envy, has hired former Love Island commissioner Kate Maddigan as its head of studios. Maddigan joins after a period executive producing Hungry Bear’s BBC One entertainment show Take Off With Bradley & Holly, which she helped…

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…