Exclusive: Jim Biederman, who produced Kids in the Hall and Jodi Lennon, who produced At Home with Amy Sedaris, are teaming up and have struck a first-look deal with Truly Original.
It comes after the pair worked with the Banijay-owned production company on The CW’s comedy panel show Would I Lie To You?. Biederman was showrunner and exec producer and Lennon was co-exec producer and writer.
The deal will help Truly Original, which also makes a number of The Real Housewives shows, move further into comedic unscripted series in the narrative, sketch, variety and game show genres.
The pair will work with Head of Development Chachi Senior and SVP Michelle Schiefen.
Biederman and Lennon have known each other for more than two decades from the New York comedy and sketch scene with Biederman’s other credits including The Tom Green Show, The Whitest Kids U’ Know and The Howard...
It comes after the pair worked with the Banijay-owned production company on The CW’s comedy panel show Would I Lie To You?. Biederman was showrunner and exec producer and Lennon was co-exec producer and writer.
The deal will help Truly Original, which also makes a number of The Real Housewives shows, move further into comedic unscripted series in the narrative, sketch, variety and game show genres.
The pair will work with Head of Development Chachi Senior and SVP Michelle Schiefen.
Biederman and Lennon have known each other for more than two decades from the New York comedy and sketch scene with Biederman’s other credits including The Tom Green Show, The Whitest Kids U’ Know and The Howard...
- 11/2/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Truly Original, the production company behind Ink Master and a number of The Real Housewives shows, is stepping up its presence on the west coast.
The Banijay-owned company has hired Christy Coffey as VP, Development and Talent. Coffey, who was previously worked with the likes of Netflix, Viacom and Big Fish Entertainment, will oversee casting and talent relations for the company. She has worked on shows such as Teen Mom, The Hills: Next Gen and Martha Knows Best.
She joins the west coast team that includes Head of Development Chachi Senior, who joined the company in January 2020, and VP, Development Erin Mechanic, who joined in March 2020, just as Covid started.
Senior has been leading the push in LA with co-CEOs Glenda Hersh and Steven Weinstock based in New York. The company has an office in Venice and is in the process of growing its development and production ranks there even further.
The Banijay-owned company has hired Christy Coffey as VP, Development and Talent. Coffey, who was previously worked with the likes of Netflix, Viacom and Big Fish Entertainment, will oversee casting and talent relations for the company. She has worked on shows such as Teen Mom, The Hills: Next Gen and Martha Knows Best.
She joins the west coast team that includes Head of Development Chachi Senior, who joined the company in January 2020, and VP, Development Erin Mechanic, who joined in March 2020, just as Covid started.
Senior has been leading the push in LA with co-CEOs Glenda Hersh and Steven Weinstock based in New York. The company has an office in Venice and is in the process of growing its development and production ranks there even further.
- 9/20/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Chachi Senior, who previously oversaw alternative programming for the Paramount Network, has joined The Real Housewives of Atlanta producer Truly Original.
Senior becomes Head of Development at the Endemol Shine North America subsidiary.
This comes after he left Paramount Network last year, where he was head of alternative development and original programming at Paramount Network. At the ViacomCBS network, he oversaw franchises including Ink Master, produced by Truly Original, and Bar Rescue and exec produced docs including Time: The Kalief Browder Story, Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story and Joe Berlinger-directed Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio.
Based in La and New York, he will oversee the company’s development roster for all platforms and across all content genres including documentary, reality and formats as well as competition series and podcasts.
Truly Original, which is run by Co-Presidents and Co-CEOs Glenda Hersh and Steven Weinstock, produces series...
Senior becomes Head of Development at the Endemol Shine North America subsidiary.
This comes after he left Paramount Network last year, where he was head of alternative development and original programming at Paramount Network. At the ViacomCBS network, he oversaw franchises including Ink Master, produced by Truly Original, and Bar Rescue and exec produced docs including Time: The Kalief Browder Story, Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story and Joe Berlinger-directed Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio.
Based in La and New York, he will oversee the company’s development roster for all platforms and across all content genres including documentary, reality and formats as well as competition series and podcasts.
Truly Original, which is run by Co-Presidents and Co-CEOs Glenda Hersh and Steven Weinstock, produces series...
- 1/24/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In serving as executive producer of “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story,” Chachi Senior found himself revisiting many of the unbelievable moments that surrounded that case. None was worse than reviewing the trial of Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman. “What I learned most about the trial after watching this film as opposed to when it was actually happening, was just how wrong the prosecution had gotten this. They blew this case,” he tells us in our recent webchat with him (watch the exclusive video above). He’s quick to credit the movie’s directing team of Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason for the way they didn’t heighten their presentation of this in the documentary and just presented the facts of how the prosecution failed. Senior adds, “They were just idiots.”
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“Rest in Power” was a six-part...
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“Rest in Power” was a six-part...
- 5/24/2019
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Former long-time MTV executive Lauren Dolgen is returning to Viacom as Svp and head of Unscripted Development and Production for Paramount Network.
Dolgen, who starts June 3, is coming off a year-long stint as head of BuzzFeed Studios. Based in Los Angeles, she will report to Keith Cox, President of Development and Production for Paramount Network and TV Land. She is taking over the responsibilities held by Chachi Senior who left the company in mid-January.
Dolgen, who created such unscripted mainstays as Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant during her two decades at MTV, will lead the unscripted development team and oversee original productions.
While Paramount Network had been designated as Viacom’s leading scripted brand, Kent Alterman, who oversees the network, recently stressed the commitment to docu- and unscripted programming on the channel. Paramount Network continues to air hit reality franchises that originated on predecessor Spike, including Bar Rescue, Ink Master and Lip Sync Battle,...
Dolgen, who starts June 3, is coming off a year-long stint as head of BuzzFeed Studios. Based in Los Angeles, she will report to Keith Cox, President of Development and Production for Paramount Network and TV Land. She is taking over the responsibilities held by Chachi Senior who left the company in mid-January.
Dolgen, who created such unscripted mainstays as Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant during her two decades at MTV, will lead the unscripted development team and oversee original productions.
While Paramount Network had been designated as Viacom’s leading scripted brand, Kent Alterman, who oversees the network, recently stressed the commitment to docu- and unscripted programming on the channel. Paramount Network continues to air hit reality franchises that originated on predecessor Spike, including Bar Rescue, Ink Master and Lip Sync Battle,...
- 5/21/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The numbers are in for the first installment of the six-part documentary Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, which aired Monday on Paramount Network and Bet. The two-net bow drew 1.2M viewers in Live+Same day
The rating was about evenly split between the sister Viacom nets: Bet drew a .39 among persons 18-49 and Paramount Network got a .31. Part 2 airs at 10 Pm Monday. Produced by Shawn Carter and the Cinemart Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story that recounts the life and legacy of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed in 2012, and whose death gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. Trayvon Martin was an unarmed 17-year old African
American high school student shot and killed by a neighborhood watch member in Sanford, Fl,. where he was visiting a friend with his father. George Zimmerman was acquitted of a second-degree murder charge utilizing Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law,...
The rating was about evenly split between the sister Viacom nets: Bet drew a .39 among persons 18-49 and Paramount Network got a .31. Part 2 airs at 10 Pm Monday. Produced by Shawn Carter and the Cinemart Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story that recounts the life and legacy of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed in 2012, and whose death gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. Trayvon Martin was an unarmed 17-year old African
American high school student shot and killed by a neighborhood watch member in Sanford, Fl,. where he was visiting a friend with his father. George Zimmerman was acquitted of a second-degree murder charge utilizing Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law,...
- 7/31/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
“Ink Master” has been renewed for an eleventh season at Paramount Network.
Season 11 of the long-running reality competition series will consist of 16 one-hour episodes and is slated to debut later this year. “Ink Master” will crown its latest winner at the Season 10 finale on April 24. In addition, “Ink Master” spinoff series “Ink Master: Angels” is currently in its second season.
“I am ecstatic to see ‘Ink Master’ reach its eleventh season as it continues to be a great ratings driver for the network,” said Chachi Senior, senior vice president of original programming for Paramount Network. . “Coming on the heels of an exciting tenth season, we’re psyched to give the fans another great season.”
Each week “Ink Master” puts artists through a series of tattoo challenges as they must create and execute an original tattoo on a “human canvas.” Each episode focuses on a different and distinct style of tattooing such as realism,...
Season 11 of the long-running reality competition series will consist of 16 one-hour episodes and is slated to debut later this year. “Ink Master” will crown its latest winner at the Season 10 finale on April 24. In addition, “Ink Master” spinoff series “Ink Master: Angels” is currently in its second season.
“I am ecstatic to see ‘Ink Master’ reach its eleventh season as it continues to be a great ratings driver for the network,” said Chachi Senior, senior vice president of original programming for Paramount Network. . “Coming on the heels of an exciting tenth season, we’re psyched to give the fans another great season.”
Each week “Ink Master” puts artists through a series of tattoo challenges as they must create and execute an original tattoo on a “human canvas.” Each episode focuses on a different and distinct style of tattooing such as realism,...
- 4/24/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Hours ahead of the Season 10 finale, Paramount Network has ordered a 16-episode 11th season of its hit original tattoo-competition series Ink Master, slated for premiere later this year.
Ink Master continues to dominate in ratings, ranking No. 1 with adults 18-49 and women 18-49 in its timeslot on cable.
“I am ecstatic to see Ink Master reach its eleventh season as it continues to be a great ratings driver for the network,” said Chachi Senior, Senior Vice President, Original Programming, Paramount Network. “Coming on the heels of an exciting tenth season, we’re psyched to give the fans another great season.”
Each week Ink Master puts artists through a series of tattoo challenges that not only test the artists’ technical skills, but also their on-the-spot creativity, as they must create and execute an original tattoo on a “human canvas.” Each episode focuses on a different and distinct style of tattooing such as realism,...
Ink Master continues to dominate in ratings, ranking No. 1 with adults 18-49 and women 18-49 in its timeslot on cable.
“I am ecstatic to see Ink Master reach its eleventh season as it continues to be a great ratings driver for the network,” said Chachi Senior, Senior Vice President, Original Programming, Paramount Network. “Coming on the heels of an exciting tenth season, we’re psyched to give the fans another great season.”
Each week Ink Master puts artists through a series of tattoo challenges that not only test the artists’ technical skills, but also their on-the-spot creativity, as they must create and execute an original tattoo on a “human canvas.” Each episode focuses on a different and distinct style of tattooing such as realism,...
- 4/24/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival will again live-stream a dozen panels and events exclusively on Facebook for free — no ticket or trip to Manhattan required.
The 12 sessions from Tribeca include the April 19 panel with HBO’s “Westworld” co-creators/showrunners/directors Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, along with cast members Evan Rachel Wood (pictured above), Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, and James Marsden. They’ll be talking about the upcoming season 2 premiere, slated for April 22, after it screens at the festival.
Tribeca’s Facebook live-streams also are scheduled to include sessions with Spike Lee, Alec Baldwin, Jamie Foxx, Paris Hilton, Nathan Lane, Christine Baranski, André Leon Tally, Antonio Banderas, Terrance McNally and John Legend. The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by At&T, runs April 18-29.
The talks are available exclusively via Facebook Live on the Tribeca Film Festival Facebook page at facebook.com/tribeca. Tribeca also live-streamed 12 panels during last year’s fest on Facebook.
The 12 sessions from Tribeca include the April 19 panel with HBO’s “Westworld” co-creators/showrunners/directors Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, along with cast members Evan Rachel Wood (pictured above), Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, and James Marsden. They’ll be talking about the upcoming season 2 premiere, slated for April 22, after it screens at the festival.
Tribeca’s Facebook live-streams also are scheduled to include sessions with Spike Lee, Alec Baldwin, Jamie Foxx, Paris Hilton, Nathan Lane, Christine Baranski, André Leon Tally, Antonio Banderas, Terrance McNally and John Legend. The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by At&T, runs April 18-29.
The talks are available exclusively via Facebook Live on the Tribeca Film Festival Facebook page at facebook.com/tribeca. Tribeca also live-streamed 12 panels during last year’s fest on Facebook.
- 4/18/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
The Tribeca Film festival will continue to bring the best of television with world premieres of new and returning series.
The 17th Annual Tribeca Film Festival has announced its TV and N.O.W. selections and they're incredibly enticing.
From the TV standpoint, the premieres will include Starz’s Sweetbitter, National Geographic’s Genius: Picasso, HBO's Westworld, Netflix’s Bobby Kennedy for President, Paramount Network’s Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, YouTube Red’s Cobra Kai, and feature documentaries Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary and Mr. Soul!
Many of the premieres will feature conversations with those involved with the works after the screenings.
After the premiere of The Trayvon Martin Story, there will be a conversation with co-directors Julia Willoughby Nason and Jenner Furst, the parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, executive producers Mike Gasparro and Chachi Senior, and special guest.
Related: Westworld Season 2: Super...
The 17th Annual Tribeca Film Festival has announced its TV and N.O.W. selections and they're incredibly enticing.
From the TV standpoint, the premieres will include Starz’s Sweetbitter, National Geographic’s Genius: Picasso, HBO's Westworld, Netflix’s Bobby Kennedy for President, Paramount Network’s Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, YouTube Red’s Cobra Kai, and feature documentaries Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary and Mr. Soul!
Many of the premieres will feature conversations with those involved with the works after the screenings.
After the premiere of The Trayvon Martin Story, there will be a conversation with co-directors Julia Willoughby Nason and Jenner Furst, the parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, executive producers Mike Gasparro and Chachi Senior, and special guest.
Related: Westworld Season 2: Super...
- 3/21/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Jay Z produced the upcoming documentary series about the life and legacy of Trayvon Martin, Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story. The six-part, unscripted series premieres in July on the Paramount Network.
In the teaser clip for the series, a quote cloud forms as people from Martin's life reflect on his death. "I don't want this to be swept under the rug," one person says. "They say that time heals all wounds," another declares. "It does not."
Martin, an unarmed, black 17 year old, was shot and killed in Florida in February 2012. The shooter,...
In the teaser clip for the series, a quote cloud forms as people from Martin's life reflect on his death. "I don't want this to be swept under the rug," one person says. "They say that time heals all wounds," another declares. "It does not."
Martin, an unarmed, black 17 year old, was shot and killed in Florida in February 2012. The shooter,...
- 2/26/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Spike TV, which is rebranding as Paramount Network in January of 2018, has ordered Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story as a mini-series. The six-part drama is expected to premiere on Paramount Network in 2018. Shawn Carter, Harvey Weinstein, David C. Glasser, Chachi Senior, Sybrina Fulton, Tracy Martin, Jenner Furst, Nick Sandow, Julia Willoughby Nason, and Michael Gasparro are executive producing.Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story is based on the book, Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, by Martin's parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, as well as the book Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It, by Lisa Bloom.Read More…...
- 4/11/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Spike TV has promoted Tori Socha to Vice President, Original Series. In her new position, Socha will continue to oversee both current series and original concepts for the network, with an aim to broaden and expand Spike's non-scripted slate. She will continue to report to Chachi Senior, Svp Original Series. Socha has worked her up through the ranks since joining Spike as Senior Director, responsible for overseeing both current series and original concepts for the channel…...
- 7/28/2016
- Deadline TV
Spike TV has named Chachi Senior, former CEO of Ardaban, senior vice president of original series, the network announced on Wednesday. Senior, who launched the unscripted format production company Ardaban in conjunction with Shine America and Shine International, will report to Spike Original Series Evp Sharon Levy. As Svp, Senior will oversee Spike TV’s non-scripted development team as well as daily department activities in an effort to grow the brand, the network said. Also Read: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Rocks Out to Taylor Swift for ‘Lip Sync Battle’ (Video) Previously, Senior produced and sold unscripted series and formats, including...
- 4/8/2015
- by L.A. Ross
- The Wrap
The man behind such shows as No Kitchen Required and Beat The House is set to run unscripted at Spike TV. Chachi Senior has been named Svp Original Series at the cable net, having run Shine Group’s Ardaban since its 2012 launch. He will oversee Spike’s nonscripted development team, reporting to Evp Original Series Sharon Levy. "Chachi is a respected veteran in this industry, with a proven track record of leading talented teams to success," Levy said in announcing the…...
- 4/8/2015
- Deadline TV
Shine America's new label Ardaban has teamed with Leftfield Pictures on a reality competition series in which families compete to make the most money from items found in their homes. The announcement was made Monday at Mipcom in Cannes by Ardaban CEO Chachi Senior and Leftfield Pictures owner and founder Brent Montgomery, both of whom are serving as executive producers. In every episode of Treasure House, three appraisers each select a family that believes it has found valuable items in their home. After choosing a family, the appraisers put each of the home’s apparent treasures up for auction. The household
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- 10/8/2012
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ardaban, the recently formed Shine America label, is teaming with Pawn Stars producer Leftfield Pictures for a reality competition series. Titled Treasure House, the Ardaban original format uncovers hidden treasures in everyday homes. In each episode, three highly regarded appraisers each select a family that believes it has found valuable items in their home. The appraisers put each of their home’s apparent treasures up for auction, and the household with the highest bids takes home an additional $50,000. Leftfield will oversee day-to-day production on Treasure House, which is being shopped to the U.S. and international TV marketplaces starting with Mipcom, where it was announced. Ardaban CEO Chachi Senior and Leftfield owner and founder Brent Montgomery serve as executive producers.
- 10/8/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The creator and executive producer behind the Food Network’s Chopped franchise joins the Shine America label as its Chief Creative Officer, Ardaban CEO Chachi Senior announced today. As COO, the veteran format creator will oversee all the creative affairs and format development for the label. Launched last spring, Ardaban’s output is exclusively produced in conjunction with Shine America and distributed globally via Shine International. Noll joins Ardaban from Notional, Iac’s TV production unit. Noll was the company’s president.
- 10/3/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
In two decades of working in film and television, I had never participated in a reality show, although I can see the appeal of them and the addiction that some shows inspire. However, all of that changed early this year when I was approached to help a BBC America show get on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico to shoot an episode of their new and highly anticipated show, No Kitchen Required, a mixture of Survivor meets Amazing Race meets Chopped.
Three masters of the culinary arts -- Chef Michael Psilakis, Chef Kayne Raymond, and Chef Madison Cowan, who was the overall winner of the Chopped series -- travel to ten exotic locations around the world, meeting the indigenous people of the land. They must hunt and prepare a meal using the traditions of the local people. The catch is, they have no kitchen. They are cooking the tribal way.
Three masters of the culinary arts -- Chef Michael Psilakis, Chef Kayne Raymond, and Chef Madison Cowan, who was the overall winner of the Chopped series -- travel to ten exotic locations around the world, meeting the indigenous people of the land. They must hunt and prepare a meal using the traditions of the local people. The catch is, they have no kitchen. They are cooking the tribal way.
- 4/4/2012
- by Jay Tavare
- Aol TV.
Shine America launched a new division called Ardaban on Monday with a focus on entertainment programming. The company will create and develop show formats for both the U.S. and the global marketplace, Shine said. "Formats" is an industry term for a show like "America's Got Talent," that can be easily replicated and exported to other countries. Chachi Senior will serve as Ardaban's chief executive officer. Senior was formerly co-president of Notional, where he oversaw such shows as "Chopped," "Momentum," "Winsanity!" and the forthcoming "No Kitchen Required." Shine America will produce and distribute Ardaban's products. Shine has...
- 3/26/2012
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
BBC America A scene from “No Kitchen Required”
To capture the remote locales in BBC America’s first original series “No Kitchen Required,” executive producer and director Chachi Senior looked to the stylistic vision of film directors Terrence Malick and Ridley Scott. He used long lenses and short depth of field, shooting the series much like a baseball game or a Nascar race. Over 90 percent of his camera crew came from feature films, a decision that landed many serendipitous moments on film.
To capture the remote locales in BBC America’s first original series “No Kitchen Required,” executive producer and director Chachi Senior looked to the stylistic vision of film directors Terrence Malick and Ridley Scott. He used long lenses and short depth of field, shooting the series much like a baseball game or a Nascar race. Over 90 percent of his camera crew came from feature films, a decision that landed many serendipitous moments on film.
- 3/12/2012
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
BBC America has greenlighted new adventure cooking competition series No Kitchen Required. The 10-episode original series, which will premiere in Spring 2012, sees three chefs — New York restaurateur Michael Psilakis, Chopped Grand Champion chef Madison Cowan and New Zealand chef Kayne Raymond — being dropped into a remote location where each must work with the locals to hunt, forage and collect ingredients to create a locally-inspired meal that will be judged by the community. The series will be hosted by British presenter Shini Somara (BBC’s One Show). No Kitchen Required will be produced by Notional, an Iac company, with Kevin Greene and Notional’s Chachi Senior and Dave Noll serving as executive producers. It joins BBC America’s slate of original programming, which includes the new comedy panel show Would You Rather…? with Graham Norton, a Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! special, a series of specials featuring Chris Hardwick as The Nerdist,...
- 11/22/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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