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EXCLUSIVE: Management and production company Thruline Entertainment has brought in longtime CBS talent executive Karen Church as senior manager. Most recently SVP of Comedy Casting at CBS, Church, who left the network late last year, oversaw talent on some of CBS’ signature hits of the past two decades. Church joined…

EXCLUSIVE: Thruline Entertainment has put into development Abby Jimenez's bestselling novel The Happy Ever After Playlist to be adapted as a feature by writer Marisa Coughlan and two-time Primetime Emmy winner director Gail Mancuso. The Happy Ever After Playlist is a romantic comedy with a strong music element…

EXCLUSIVE: Talent manager Johnny Webster has joined Beverly Hills-based management/production company Thruline Entertainment. Webster moves to Thruline from Industry Entertainment, where he spent the last three years, after stints training at management companies Impression Entertainment and New Wave Entertainment. He…

Management-production company Thruline Entertainment has elevated Alexandra Peck to Director of Development from her previous position as Development Coordinator. The promotion coincides with Peck's fifth anniversary at the company. Peck trained as an assistant at the Beverly Hills-based management-production firm…

EXCLUSIVE: After three decades at the helm of her own boutique company, respected manager/producer Nancy Sanders is closing shop to join Thruline Entertainment as a Partner. The move comes on the heels of Sanders recently parting ways with long-time partners Mark Armstrong and Steve Caserta as the trio opted to…

A+E Studios and Thruline Entertainment have optioned the rights to Norman Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Executioner's Song and have attached White Boy Rick screenwriters Logan and Noah Miller to adapt and produce a potential limited series, now in active development. The groundbreaking book, likely…

EXCLUSIVE: It was one of the most poignant and heartbreaking stories to come out of the U.S. forces’ fight against Al-Qaeda. Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman, mortally wounded, was first thought to have died in the mountains of Afghanistan in the battle of Takur Ghar. This hero who took on two dozen Taliban…

Thruline Entertainment has hired former Innovative agent Jayme Yarow and promoted Alexandra Peck to Development Coordinator. Yarow joins to help the company bolster its growing comedy roster. She moves to Thruline after three years at Innovative Artists where she was a literary agent with an emphasis in the comedy…

A+E Studios has signed a two-year, first look development deal with management and production company Thruline Entertainment, with the two companies planning to develop and produce scripted content together for the A+E portfolio of networks and outside buyers. The pact was announced today by Tana Jamieson, Senior Vice…

For a second straight year, the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and Thruline Entertainment are teaming to stage live table reads of spec comedy pilots during the fest. They plan to stage two reads July 28 in Montreal: An American script to be directed by Jeremy Garelick (The Wedding Ringer), and a Canadian script to…

Thruline Entertainment has added longtime talent manager Marc Hamou to its partner ranks. Hamou joined Thruline in 2005 when William Mercer’s Rozon-Mercer, where Hamou was a partner, merged with Thruline, and Mercer became a Thruline partner alongside the company’s founders J.B. Roberts and Ron West and Chris Henze…

Tagline Television, the TV production division of management company Thruline, has set up a slew of projects at broadcast and cable networks including ABC, USA Network, TNT and IFC. Five of the projects are through Universal Cable Prods., where Tagline has a first-look deal and a long-term relationship through Psych…