Exclusive: Days afterJeff Collins left Dance Moms producer Collins Avenue, which he had founded and run for more than 10 years, the reality veteran has set up his new venture.
Collins has been named president of Catalina Content, a new Los Angeles-based production label backed by Sky Studios in the UK. Running all creative for the new company, Collins has been tasked with creating character-driven and female-skewing programming, as well as entertainment formats for broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms.
Catalina Content joins Sky Studios non-scripted portfolio, which includes Jupiter Entertainment, creator of such crime series as Snapped, ID Murder Mystery, In Pursuit with John Walsh and Joe Kenda, Homicide Hunter, Love Productions, best known for The Great American Baking Show, Znak & Co (Fox’s upcoming Ultimate Tag) and Talos Films.
“We have landed a prime asset in Jeff. His proven success in creating and developing character-led programming is an ideal complement to our factual businesses.
Collins has been named president of Catalina Content, a new Los Angeles-based production label backed by Sky Studios in the UK. Running all creative for the new company, Collins has been tasked with creating character-driven and female-skewing programming, as well as entertainment formats for broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms.
Catalina Content joins Sky Studios non-scripted portfolio, which includes Jupiter Entertainment, creator of such crime series as Snapped, ID Murder Mystery, In Pursuit with John Walsh and Joe Kenda, Homicide Hunter, Love Productions, best known for The Great American Baking Show, Znak & Co (Fox’s upcoming Ultimate Tag) and Talos Films.
“We have landed a prime asset in Jeff. His proven success in creating and developing character-led programming is an ideal complement to our factual businesses.
- 1/24/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Content Group, the flagship division of Steve Michaels’ Asylum Entertainment Group, has acquired reality production company Collins Avenue Entertainment, which is behind Lifetime’s popular Dance Mons franchise, from Kew Media Group.
Under the deal, Tcg will retain all of Collins Avenue’s physical assets, intellectual properties, contracts as well as key staff, including Svp of Development, Lindsay Schwartz.
Founded by Jeff Collins more than a decade ago, Collins Avenue is best known for producing eight seasons, eight spinoffs and specials of the Lifetime series Dance Moms, as well as the CW’s Fly Girls and Animal Planet’s American Stuffers. Jodi Flynn, President of Tcg, will oversee the company.
Collins Avenue marks the first acquisition for Tcg, which was launched in 2018 when Michaels bought back Asylum Entertainment from Legendary. Tcg is the biggest of Aeg’s portfolio of companies that also includes international scripted drama-focused Clovis Entertainment and podcast division Audity.
Under the deal, Tcg will retain all of Collins Avenue’s physical assets, intellectual properties, contracts as well as key staff, including Svp of Development, Lindsay Schwartz.
Founded by Jeff Collins more than a decade ago, Collins Avenue is best known for producing eight seasons, eight spinoffs and specials of the Lifetime series Dance Moms, as well as the CW’s Fly Girls and Animal Planet’s American Stuffers. Jodi Flynn, President of Tcg, will oversee the company.
Collins Avenue marks the first acquisition for Tcg, which was launched in 2018 when Michaels bought back Asylum Entertainment from Legendary. Tcg is the biggest of Aeg’s portfolio of companies that also includes international scripted drama-focused Clovis Entertainment and podcast division Audity.
- 1/24/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dance Moms exec producer Jeff Collins is leaving the eponymous production company that he founded over ten years ago.
Collins, who established Collins Avenue Entertainment in 2008, is exiting the Kew Media-backed business and Deadline understands he is finalizing his next move.
Founder and President Collins has served as Executive Producer on all Collins Avenue productions including Lifetime series Dance Moms and its spinoff series and specials, The CW’s Fly Girls and Animal Planet’s American Stuffers.
Collins started his production career on Entertainment Tonight and moved up to Vice President of Paramount Domestic Television’s Leeza Gibbons Entertainment.
He also worked on shows such as Lifetime’s How Clean Is Your House?, The WB’s Survival of the Richest and MTV’s Crashing With and oversaw the U.S. office of Bridezillas and Billy The Exterminator producer September Films.
Collins’ departure comes as Kew Media is undertaking a...
Collins, who established Collins Avenue Entertainment in 2008, is exiting the Kew Media-backed business and Deadline understands he is finalizing his next move.
Founder and President Collins has served as Executive Producer on all Collins Avenue productions including Lifetime series Dance Moms and its spinoff series and specials, The CW’s Fly Girls and Animal Planet’s American Stuffers.
Collins started his production career on Entertainment Tonight and moved up to Vice President of Paramount Domestic Television’s Leeza Gibbons Entertainment.
He also worked on shows such as Lifetime’s How Clean Is Your House?, The WB’s Survival of the Richest and MTV’s Crashing With and oversaw the U.S. office of Bridezillas and Billy The Exterminator producer September Films.
Collins’ departure comes as Kew Media is undertaking a...
- 1/10/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Jennifer Lopez has seen Bruno Mars and Cardi B‘s “Finesse” music video and her reaction was filled with nostalgia.
The singer, 48, shared a throwback video of her time as a Fly Girls dancer on In Living Color on Instagram Thursday.
Mars and Cardi B’s music video is a dedication to the ’90s sketch comedy series In Living Color, created by Keenen Ivory Wayans, which helped pave the way for minority performers in Hollywood and Lopez was a proud member.
This video is dedicated to one my favorite T.V shows of all time
— Bruno Mars (@BrunoMars) January 4, 2018
https://platform.
The singer, 48, shared a throwback video of her time as a Fly Girls dancer on In Living Color on Instagram Thursday.
Mars and Cardi B’s music video is a dedication to the ’90s sketch comedy series In Living Color, created by Keenen Ivory Wayans, which helped pave the way for minority performers in Hollywood and Lopez was a proud member.
This video is dedicated to one my favorite T.V shows of all time
— Bruno Mars (@BrunoMars) January 4, 2018
https://platform.
- 1/5/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Tags: ABC FamilyThe FostersJennifer LopezIMDbTeri PoloSherri SaumMaia Mitchell
The new ABC Family series The Fosters from executive producer Jennifer Lopez about two moms raising a large family has gotten picked up and will begin airing in the summer. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d type yet am so happy I can.
ABC Family president Michael Riley announced the news today, saying the new one-hour drama fits into the network’s “groundbreaking storytelling and iconic characters” and will bring “the same depth, heart, close relationships and authenticity that our viewers have come to expect.”
The two moms will be played by Teri Polo (Meet the Parents, The West Wing) as police officer Stef Foster and Sherri Saum (In Treatment, Sunset Beach) as school principal Lena Foster. Their large, multi-ethnic brood includes biological and adopted children. Their household will be disrupted when they take in another child, Callie (played...
The new ABC Family series The Fosters from executive producer Jennifer Lopez about two moms raising a large family has gotten picked up and will begin airing in the summer. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d type yet am so happy I can.
ABC Family president Michael Riley announced the news today, saying the new one-hour drama fits into the network’s “groundbreaking storytelling and iconic characters” and will bring “the same depth, heart, close relationships and authenticity that our viewers have come to expect.”
The two moms will be played by Teri Polo (Meet the Parents, The West Wing) as police officer Stef Foster and Sherri Saum (In Treatment, Sunset Beach) as school principal Lena Foster. Their large, multi-ethnic brood includes biological and adopted children. Their household will be disrupted when they take in another child, Callie (played...
- 2/6/2013
- by dorothy snarker
- AfterEllen.com
ABC Family is looking to get into business with Jennifer Lopez. Under Nuyorican Productions, the American Idol judge is developing an untitled hourlong drama project for the younger-female-skewing cable network centered on a lesbian couple, who already has several children, bringing a teenager into their home, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Lopez will serve as an executive producer on the project along with Simon Fields, Greg Gugliotta (Beautiful Girl), as well as co-creators/writers Peter Paige and Brad Bredeweg (Fly Girls). Lopez has executive produced her share of television, with the likes of Univision's Q'Viva: The Chosen and MTV's
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- 7/6/2012
- by Philiana Ng
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lets face it, as television viewers we grow attached to the gay characters that resonate with us on the small screen, and with the actors that bring life to these roles. We also find ourselves growing fond of out-and-proud actors that have opted to play it straight thats why its called acting, people and vice versa.
So when their shows are cancelled or taken off the air before they wear out their welcome (whatever, I still miss Sex and the City on Sunday nights, ok?), it can be a little bit difficult to see them slide into other TV roles easier than Lindsay Lohan checking into another rehab (Im rootin for you, girl).
Alas, sometimes that isnt always the case, which might have you asking yourself, Where are they now? In some cases for these actors, it could be taken as a query of, Where did they disappear to?
But for curiosity's (and manner's) sake,...
So when their shows are cancelled or taken off the air before they wear out their welcome (whatever, I still miss Sex and the City on Sunday nights, ok?), it can be a little bit difficult to see them slide into other TV roles easier than Lindsay Lohan checking into another rehab (Im rootin for you, girl).
Alas, sometimes that isnt always the case, which might have you asking yourself, Where are they now? In some cases for these actors, it could be taken as a query of, Where did they disappear to?
But for curiosity's (and manner's) sake,...
- 2/11/2011
- by Tim Parks
- The Backlot
Yes, it's a reality show about flight attendants. Can Fly Girls (clever title) be the CW's answer to MTV's Jersey Shore, a mid-season hit reality show no one saw coming?
Highly doubtful.
Just the same, the ladies make their debut Wednesday night, allowing us a glimpse into the lives of five Virgin America flight attendants as they jet around the country.
Enthralled yet?
Right half-hour episodes will feature the attendants sharing a home in L.A., working long hours while dealing with grumpy passengers and partying on their layovers in Hot locales such as Las Vegas, Miami Beach and New York City.
Wow. What awesome places for ... layovers.
The series promises "stories filled with romance, family and friendships." No clue if any of them will be asked to join the mile high club during the season finale.
“Everything that you are going to see is real – all the relationships, all the reactions,...
Highly doubtful.
Just the same, the ladies make their debut Wednesday night, allowing us a glimpse into the lives of five Virgin America flight attendants as they jet around the country.
Enthralled yet?
Right half-hour episodes will feature the attendants sharing a home in L.A., working long hours while dealing with grumpy passengers and partying on their layovers in Hot locales such as Las Vegas, Miami Beach and New York City.
Wow. What awesome places for ... layovers.
The series promises "stories filled with romance, family and friendships." No clue if any of them will be asked to join the mile high club during the season finale.
“Everything that you are going to see is real – all the relationships, all the reactions,...
- 3/23/2010
- by steve@iscribelimited.com (L.J. Gibbs)
- TVfanatic
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