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Fox has put in development a single-camera half-hour autobiographical comedy from Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life writer-producer Brian Rubenstein. He will write the pilot and executive produce with New Wave’s Matt Ochacher, Brian Volk-Weiss and Michael Pelmont. Based on Rubenstein’s life, the untitled…

Fox is developing a drama project set in the world of Kentucky bourbon as a one-hour scripted series with Hell On Wheels producer Bruce Romans and New Wave Entertainment. The Untitled Kentucky Bourbon Project centers on the self-made patriarch of a Kentucky bourbon empire and his family. When he has a public…

EXCLUSIVE: New Wave Entertainment has promoted Brian Volk-Weiss to President of Production. He will oversee production and development for New Wave New York and the firm’s digital departments, and also work with CEO Paul Apel to guide overall strategy at the production, marketing, and management company. Volk-Weiss…

EXCLUSIVE: Edwin Zane has joined New Wave Entertainment as VP Unscripted Development, where he will head up the reality division at the production/marketing/management company. The industry veteran, who previously worked at Triage Entertainment, LMNO Productions and Rive Gauche Television, will focus on developing new…

Writers Vlas and Charley Parlapanides have signed with New Wave Entertainment for management. The brothers were with Principato Young; they continued to be agented by WME. They penned last year's Antiquity blockbuster The Immortals for Relativity Media. The Parlapanideses also have The Centurion, a one-hour drama set…

EXCLUSIVE: New Wave Entertainment has acquired P3 Entertainment, a Emmy-winning production company specializing in sports. With the acquisition of the New York-based production company, New Wave will be opening a new office in Midtown Manhattan, making it a bi-coastal production, marketing, and management company…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Vaughn of Comedy Central Records has joined New Wave Entertainment as the Senior Vice President of Production and Distribution. In his new role, Vaughn will bring in and develop new comedy and other content, as well as manage the Dynamics content distribution division. He’ll report to Brian Volk-Weiss…

EXCLUSIVE: New Wave Entertainment is boosting its East Coast business by tapping Maureen Taran as VP Management and Production.  There The 15-year talent, production and management veteran will run the company’s soon-to-open New York office and help cultivate a roster of new clientele and acquisitions. Taran helped…

Paul Reiser has completed an overhaul of his representation team. Three months after the veteran actor-comedian signed with ICM, he also has brought in a new management company, New Wave Entertainment. Reiser was with the Saftan Co. He most recently created, executive produced and starred in The Paul Reiser Show…

EXCLUSIVE: Following his recent exit from New Wave Entertainment, veteran comedy talent manager Barry Katz is going solo again with the relaunch of Barry Katz Entertainment. All of Katz’s clients at New Wave will follow him to the new company including Jay Mohr, Christopher Titus, Bill Bellamy, Paul Rodriguez, Cheri…

EXCLUSIVE: Eight years after Barry Katz sold his talent management company to New Wave Entertainment, the two are parting ways. Katz will leave New Wave at the end of the year when his contract is up after the company opted not to renew it. "It has been a great eight years having Barry on our team, as we have truly…

NBC has bought two more single-camera comedy projects: Life As I Blow It, from Chelsea Lately and After Lately writer-panelist Sarah Colonna, and Satellites, a workplace comedy from Weeds writer-producer Stephen Falk. Life As I Blow It is based on Colonna's upcoming book and follows Colonna and her life in the…