Exclusive: Paul Rosicker, an agent at Gersh for over 35 years, is moving into management after founding Quest Entertainment and Management with his husband, manager and producer Brian Ferrantino.
Rosicker started at Gersh three weeks after graduating from UCLA in 1988, and was promoted to agent within three years, after starting out in the mailroom. Prior to his departure from the agency, he served as Senior Vice President, focusing on television talent and helping to build a department that now claims over 300+ series regular clients.
Ferrantino has had his own shingle, Ferrantino Entertainment, since 2010. Prior to that, he worked for Robert Duvall’s production company, Butcher’s Run. While there, the company produced Scott Cooper’s Academy Award-winning debut feature Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal, as well as the Emmy-winning AMC Western miniseries Broken Trail.
Clients joining Rosicker and Ferrantino at Quest include Emmy winner Brendan Hunt, the co-creator...
Rosicker started at Gersh three weeks after graduating from UCLA in 1988, and was promoted to agent within three years, after starting out in the mailroom. Prior to his departure from the agency, he served as Senior Vice President, focusing on television talent and helping to build a department that now claims over 300+ series regular clients.
Ferrantino has had his own shingle, Ferrantino Entertainment, since 2010. Prior to that, he worked for Robert Duvall’s production company, Butcher’s Run. While there, the company produced Scott Cooper’s Academy Award-winning debut feature Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal, as well as the Emmy-winning AMC Western miniseries Broken Trail.
Clients joining Rosicker and Ferrantino at Quest include Emmy winner Brendan Hunt, the co-creator...
- 2/14/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Folake Olowofoyeku (Transparent) has been cast in the title role opposite Billy Gardell in CBS multi-camera comedy pilot Bob Abishola. Christine Ebersole (The Wolf of Wall Street), Maribeth Monroe (Workaholics), Shola Adewusi (Paddington 2), Barry Shabaka Henley (Bosch), and Matt Jones (Mom) round out the family in the project that comes from Big Bang, Young Sheldon and Mom co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre, Mom co-creator Eddie Gorodetsky and Mike & Molly alum Al Higgins, who have teamed with The Daily Show contributor Gina Yashere. Lorre’s long-time studio home, Warner Bros. TV, produces with Chuck Lorre Prods.
In Bob Abishola, written by the quartet, after having a heart attack, Bob (Gardell) falls in love with his Nigerian nurse and sets his sights on getting her to give him a chance.
Olowofoyeku’s Abishola is Nigerian immigrant who lives in a small apartment with her aunt (Adewusi), uncle (Henley) and teenage son.
In Bob Abishola, written by the quartet, after having a heart attack, Bob (Gardell) falls in love with his Nigerian nurse and sets his sights on getting her to give him a chance.
Olowofoyeku’s Abishola is Nigerian immigrant who lives in a small apartment with her aunt (Adewusi), uncle (Henley) and teenage son.
- 12/17/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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