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How do you turn the latest crop of social media influencers – many with tens of millions of followers – into traditional television stars? That's been the question that networks and producers have been asking for years. It's also the question that Wheelhouse Entertainment, the business created by Leftfield…

EXCLUSIVE: As TikTok continues to make headlines with President Trump's threat to shutdown the social media service if a U.S. suitor such as Microsoft doesn’t buy it by mid-September, some of its key creators are heading to television. Wheelhouse Entertainment has struck a deal with Hype House, whose members have more…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery Channel is launching new business format I Quit, with a slew of entrepreneurs risking it by giving up their jobs to follow their passions. However, the business model behind the show, which launches Tuesday August 18, may be the real point of interest for producers. The show comes from Shopify Stud…

EXCLUSIVE: The Tiger Woods scripted mini-series based on Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyiann's biography of the controversial golf champion, has moved a step closer to a hole in one after finding its writer and a production partner. Rodney Barnes, who recently wrote on Hulu's Wu-Tang: An American Saga and is penning…

Kevin Hart's Laugh Out Loud and Brent Montgomery's Wheelhouse Entertainment have inked a co-production deal and have set their first joint project with ride-sharing app Lyft's fledgling entertainment arm. The two companies are working to develop, produce and distribute a slate of unscripted programming that will…

EXCLUSIVE: Wheelhouse Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in Den of Thieves, the production company behind Netflix's Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour special. Brent Montgomery's firm has invested in the live-event, scripted and non-scripted company, which was established by Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan…

EXCLUSIVE: Tiger Woods, Jeff Benedict’s recently published biography of the controversial golf champion, is being turned into a scripted miniseries after the author struck a deal with Brent Montgomery's Wheelhouse Entertainment. The book, which was published last year, became a New York Times best seller and is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Kimmelot, the company formed by Jimmy Kimmel and Wheelhouse Group last year, has struck an unscripted production deal with ITV America. The company has set up its recently announced revamp of Crank Yankers for Comedy Central as its first show to be produced through the exclusive arrangement. The Jimmy Kimmel…

Scott Lonker is leaving CAA to run Kimmelot – the production company formed by Jimmy Kimmel and Brent Montgomery's Wheelhouse Entertainment. Lonker, who has been with the talent agency for nearly eight years, becomes president of Kimmelot, which was formed last year as a "creative lab" to produce unscripted, scripted…

Brent Montgomery has set the senior leadership team for his Wheelhouse Entertainment banner, adding five key hires to the company’s growing ranks. All five will work in tandem with recently named President of Wheelhouse Entertainment Sean Cohan, and Chief Strategy Officer Ed Simpson. Former ESPN strategy and business…

A+E Networks’ President of International and Digital Media Sean Cohan is leaving the company after 15 years to become president of Wheelhouse Entertainment, part of Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Group. The appointment comes on the heels of Wheelhouse launching Kimmelot, a joint venture with Jimmy Kimmel who also…

Former ITV America CEO Brent Montgomery has set the top executive team for Spoke Studios, the production label for his recently announced Wheelhouse Entertainment. Will Nothacker and Joe Weinstock have been named co-presidents of Spoke Studios and will partner in running the company from Spoke Studios' East and West…