Major changes are afoot at Wilshire Studios, the unscripted programming producer for Universal Content Productions.
Variety has learned that the unscripted studio will no longer develop more general unscripted programming, instead focusing on premium docu-series. In addition, Wilshire Studios will no longer produce the live events “E! Live from the Red Carpet” and the People’s Choice Awards, which began airing on E! in 2018. Those projects will now be produced by E!’s live events team.
Wilshire Studios currently employs approximately 20 people. The exact fate of those employees is unknown at this time, though an individual with knowledge of the situation said NBCU will look to place them in other areas of the company.
Wilshire Studios is currently producing a number of unscripted projects, including “Straight Up with Steve Austin” for USA Network, “True Hollywood Story” for E!, and the Oxygen true crime shows “DNA of Murder with Paul Holes...
Variety has learned that the unscripted studio will no longer develop more general unscripted programming, instead focusing on premium docu-series. In addition, Wilshire Studios will no longer produce the live events “E! Live from the Red Carpet” and the People’s Choice Awards, which began airing on E! in 2018. Those projects will now be produced by E!’s live events team.
Wilshire Studios currently employs approximately 20 people. The exact fate of those employees is unknown at this time, though an individual with knowledge of the situation said NBCU will look to place them in other areas of the company.
Wilshire Studios is currently producing a number of unscripted projects, including “Straight Up with Steve Austin” for USA Network, “True Hollywood Story” for E!, and the Oxygen true crime shows “DNA of Murder with Paul Holes...
- 5/30/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Seven months after Dawn Olmstead became president of Universal Content Productions and Wilshire Studios, she is setting a new programming direction for the unscripted unit.
Wilshire Studios will be getting out of producing broad unscripted series and live events to focus on premium docuseries.
The studio’s live event programs — E! Live from the Red Carpet and E! People’s Choice Awards — will move to E!, whose live-events team will produce them from now on.
Wilshire Studios will complete production on the current seasons of its unscripted series True Hollywood Story (E!), DNA of Murder with Paul Holes (Oxygen), Straight Up Steve Austin (USA) and A Lie To Die For (Oxygen). Going forward, if the networks opt to renew these series, they will have to find new producing partners for them.
The idea behind the programming recalibration at Wilshire Studios is to make the company’s focus on premium series...
Wilshire Studios will be getting out of producing broad unscripted series and live events to focus on premium docuseries.
The studio’s live event programs — E! Live from the Red Carpet and E! People’s Choice Awards — will move to E!, whose live-events team will produce them from now on.
Wilshire Studios will complete production on the current seasons of its unscripted series True Hollywood Story (E!), DNA of Murder with Paul Holes (Oxygen), Straight Up Steve Austin (USA) and A Lie To Die For (Oxygen). Going forward, if the networks opt to renew these series, they will have to find new producing partners for them.
The idea behind the programming recalibration at Wilshire Studios is to make the company’s focus on premium series...
- 5/30/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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