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EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter and producer Carolina Rivera has signed with Verve and has entered an overall deal at Netflix. Under the Netflix deal, Rivera created and is set to serve as executive producer of the television series Madre Solo Hay Dos. Rivera is the co-executive producer of the CW sci-fi drama Roswell: New Mex…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Josh Dallas has signed with Verve. He is one of the first major new signings since Verve last month entered the talent representation business with the hire of top TV talent agent Sean Grumman, who brought with him a number of his clients at WME. Dallas also was previously repped by WME though Grumman…

Buchwald has hired Sarah Shulman as their first-ever Director of Corporate Communications. In the newly created role, Shulman will handle internal and external communications, media relations, special events, client publicity and strategic planning for the agency. "Sarah is a well-respected communications leader whose…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve is becoming a full-service agency with the launch of a talent team, which will be led by top TV talent agent Sean Grumman. He is leaving WME, where he was a partner in the talent department, to join Verve where he will become the agency’s 8th partner. WME and CAA alum Grumman will bring in other…

EXCLUSIVE: After a lengthy pursuit by all the agencies, writer/director/musician Jeymes Samuel has signed with Verve. Samuel is about to make his feature directorial debut on The Harder They Fall, the $90M budget Netflix Western that stars Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors, with Jay-Z, James Lassiter and Lawrence Bender…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve learned that Verve has inked TV series creator, writer and producer Patrick Walsh. The St. Louis, Mo. native began his career as a scribe on FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He continued on at CBS’ 2 Broke Girls as Co-Executive Producer and then to HBO’s 2017 Pete Holmes series Crashing as a…

EXCLUSIVE: Arika Lisanne Mittman, who most recently served as executive producer and co-showrunner on Spectrum’s Southern Gothic mystery series Paradise Lost, has signed with Verve. Paradise Lost, from Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, launched its first season on April 13. A Season 2 renewal decision is…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Zahir McGhee, creator, executive producer and showrunner of ABC’s drama pilot Harlem’s Kitchen and known for his work on Shondaland series Scandal, Private Practice and For the People, has signed with Verve. Harlem’s Kitchen, starring Delroy Lindo, marks the first pilot order for McGhee…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve continues to build out its unscripted division, adding veteran reality TV producers Sean Travis and Justin Booth to its client roster. Travis, best known for executive producing MTV's hit docuseries The Hills and The City, directed early seasons of MTV’s The Real World. He produced the first Beastie…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has inked filmmaker Adam Rehmeier. Rehmeier’s latest movie, which he directed and wrote, Dinner in America, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival as part of the main U.S. Dramatic Competition. The pic, which stars Kyle Gallner and Emily Skeggs, follows an on-the-lam punk rocker and a young…

EXCLUSIVE: The lit agency Verve has become the latest to confront the havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic that has brought the business to a screeching halt. Sources said that the strategy will be pay cuts, not layoffs. The seven partners will take the largest salary cuts, and the percentage salary trims…

EXCLUSIVE: David Guggenheim, the creator and writer of the Kiefer Sutherland-starring drama series Designated Survivor and screenwriter of the Denzel Washington-Ryan Reynolds pic Safe House, has signed with Verve. Guggenheim’s Designated Survivor, the White House drama starring Sutherland, aired two seasons on ABC…