Netflix has added former NBC Universal Television Entertainment chief Jeff Gaspin to its executive team.
Gaspin will be vp unscripted series at the streamer, charged with curating and growing Netflix’s slate of reality programming. He joins Netflix a month after Jenn Levy, who previously oversaw unscripted series at the company, departed. Gaspin will report to Brandon Riegg, vp nonfiction series.
“I feel a bit like Al Pacino in The Godfather Part III: Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in,” Gaspin said in a statement. “I’m so thrilled to join Brandon and the unscripted team at Netflix. I was always most successful and happiest when I built or ran unscripted at VH1, Bravo and NBCU. I can’t wait to do the same at Netflix.”
Gaspin has worked with Netflix several times as a producer: His company, Gaspin Media, produced Rhythm & Flow and...
Gaspin will be vp unscripted series at the streamer, charged with curating and growing Netflix’s slate of reality programming. He joins Netflix a month after Jenn Levy, who previously oversaw unscripted series at the company, departed. Gaspin will report to Brandon Riegg, vp nonfiction series.
“I feel a bit like Al Pacino in The Godfather Part III: Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in,” Gaspin said in a statement. “I’m so thrilled to join Brandon and the unscripted team at Netflix. I was always most successful and happiest when I built or ran unscripted at VH1, Bravo and NBCU. I can’t wait to do the same at Netflix.”
Gaspin has worked with Netflix several times as a producer: His company, Gaspin Media, produced Rhythm & Flow and...
- 2/21/2024
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Netflix has found its new unscripted chief.
The streamer has hired Jeff Gaspin as VP Unscripted Series after a search for a high-profile figure to lead its burgeoning reality business.
It comes after Deadline revealed that Jenn Levy left the company last month and Brandon Riegg, who is VP Nonfiction Series, to whom Gaspin will report, started a search for top unscripted chief.
There were plenty of big unscripted names in the running for the position and Riegg is understood to have enquired about a number of execs overseeing unscripted for the broadcast networks and major studios.
Gaspin is a big get for Netflix given that he was previously Chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment from 2009-11.
However, his hire is less surprising considering he has been in business with Netflix and Riegg on a number of shows. He exec produced The Tinder Swindler, a true-crime series that was...
The streamer has hired Jeff Gaspin as VP Unscripted Series after a search for a high-profile figure to lead its burgeoning reality business.
It comes after Deadline revealed that Jenn Levy left the company last month and Brandon Riegg, who is VP Nonfiction Series, to whom Gaspin will report, started a search for top unscripted chief.
There were plenty of big unscripted names in the running for the position and Riegg is understood to have enquired about a number of execs overseeing unscripted for the broadcast networks and major studios.
Gaspin is a big get for Netflix given that he was previously Chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment from 2009-11.
However, his hire is less surprising considering he has been in business with Netflix and Riegg on a number of shows. He exec produced The Tinder Swindler, a true-crime series that was...
- 2/21/2024
- by Peter White and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jenn Levy, who has overseen series including Queer Eye and Is It Cake? at Netflix, is leaving the streamer.
Deadline understands that Levy, who is VP Nonfiction, is leaving at the end of this week.
She has been with the company since 2017, having joined as Director of Unscripted Originals from NBCUniversal’s Bravo, where she had spent nine years. She was the company’s unscripted chief Brandon Riegg’s first hire after he joined the company at the end of 2016.
The move is somewhat of a surprise given the success of Netflix’s recent reality pipeline.
Queer Eye is heading in to its eighth season; Love Is Blind — arguably Netflix’s biggest unscripted hit — is back in February with Season 6; and the company behind that series, Kinetic Content, also is behind The Ultimatum, which has aired two seasons and has a spinoff. Also, Selling Sunset is filming its eighth season and has spawned spinoffs,...
Deadline understands that Levy, who is VP Nonfiction, is leaving at the end of this week.
She has been with the company since 2017, having joined as Director of Unscripted Originals from NBCUniversal’s Bravo, where she had spent nine years. She was the company’s unscripted chief Brandon Riegg’s first hire after he joined the company at the end of 2016.
The move is somewhat of a surprise given the success of Netflix’s recent reality pipeline.
Queer Eye is heading in to its eighth season; Love Is Blind — arguably Netflix’s biggest unscripted hit — is back in February with Season 6; and the company behind that series, Kinetic Content, also is behind The Ultimatum, which has aired two seasons and has a spinoff. Also, Selling Sunset is filming its eighth season and has spawned spinoffs,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
After Antoni Porowski was cast on Netflix’s 2018 reboot of “Queer Eye” and skyrocketed to fame as the makeover show’s boyishly charming food expert, he found himself struggling to say no.
For years, he’d hustled as a busboy and waiter in upscale New York eateries while auditioning for acting gigs. So when he finally got the job that meant he could blend, rather than balance, entertainment and food, he wanted to go all-in.
“I went through a weird phase when ‘Queer Eye’ came out where I was like, ‘I’m not going to enjoy myself,’” he says over breakfast at the downtown Manhattan restaurant The Smile. “I’m just going to work and hustle. I’m going to do every single endorsement.”
His yes phase proved to be rewarding, leading to cookbooks, a fast-casual restaurant in New York City’s West Village (which closed during the pandemic), and brand deals to tout espresso,...
For years, he’d hustled as a busboy and waiter in upscale New York eateries while auditioning for acting gigs. So when he finally got the job that meant he could blend, rather than balance, entertainment and food, he wanted to go all-in.
“I went through a weird phase when ‘Queer Eye’ came out where I was like, ‘I’m not going to enjoy myself,’” he says over breakfast at the downtown Manhattan restaurant The Smile. “I’m just going to work and hustle. I’m going to do every single endorsement.”
His yes phase proved to be rewarding, leading to cookbooks, a fast-casual restaurant in New York City’s West Village (which closed during the pandemic), and brand deals to tout espresso,...
- 6/2/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Antoni Porowski, the resident foodie on Netflix’s hit show “Queer Eye,” is taking his culinary talents to another reality series for the streamer.
In his first big swing outside of “Queer Eye,” Porowski will host and executive produce Netflix’s newest cooking competition series, “Easy-Bake Battle.” It already completed filming and will be released in the fall.
Inspired by the popular children’s toy, “Easy-Bake Battle” spotlights home chefs who go head-to-head in two rounds of savory and sweet challenges using only an Easy-Bake-style oven. Adult cooks — unlike the miniature kitchen appliance, this competition series is not suited for children — will compete for 25,000 in each battle. The winner has the chance to win up to 100,000.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Life is complicated, but cooking doesn’t have to be! Enter Easy-Bake Battle, a new culinary competition series inspired by Hasbro’s iconic Easy-Bake Oven, featuring skilled and ultra clever home cooks,...
In his first big swing outside of “Queer Eye,” Porowski will host and executive produce Netflix’s newest cooking competition series, “Easy-Bake Battle.” It already completed filming and will be released in the fall.
Inspired by the popular children’s toy, “Easy-Bake Battle” spotlights home chefs who go head-to-head in two rounds of savory and sweet challenges using only an Easy-Bake-style oven. Adult cooks — unlike the miniature kitchen appliance, this competition series is not suited for children — will compete for 25,000 in each battle. The winner has the chance to win up to 100,000.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Life is complicated, but cooking doesn’t have to be! Enter Easy-Bake Battle, a new culinary competition series inspired by Hasbro’s iconic Easy-Bake Oven, featuring skilled and ultra clever home cooks,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
With the iconic Hollywood sign at sunset as a backdrop, two of the stars of “Westside,” Netflix’s first music reality series (arriving November 9) — and arguably its most experimental and ambitious show to date — describe their real lives as aspiring stars. Meta enough?
“What I love about ‘Westside’ is that it’s the first of its kind,” says Pia Toscano, who may be the most recognizable cast member, having placed ninth on season 10 of “American Idol.” “I’m finally able to tell my story and peel back those layers and write and collaborate with other incredible artists [on the show]. But we weren’t competing with each other, so there was this camaraderie — we became a tight-knit family. We really grew and learned from each other. It wasn’t like: Who’s going to win this week? And who’s going to get voted off?”
“I don’t necessarily consider this a reality show,...
“What I love about ‘Westside’ is that it’s the first of its kind,” says Pia Toscano, who may be the most recognizable cast member, having placed ninth on season 10 of “American Idol.” “I’m finally able to tell my story and peel back those layers and write and collaborate with other incredible artists [on the show]. But we weren’t competing with each other, so there was this camaraderie — we became a tight-knit family. We really grew and learned from each other. It wasn’t like: Who’s going to win this week? And who’s going to get voted off?”
“I don’t necessarily consider this a reality show,...
- 10/30/2018
- by James Patrick Herman
- Variety Film + TV
Call it the Queer Eye effect, but it seems that Netflix is majorly investing in its reality TV output, which is brilliant news for those of us who are more invested than we should be in the exploits of the Housewives and Jersey Shore cast members. The streaming giant has just announced that it has greenlit three new reality shows, and the one which has really caught our eye is Westside, described as La La Land meets The Hills (a convincing sales pitch if we’ve ever read one.) According to industry bible Variety, the eight part series will follow a group of "ambitious and talented young musicians spanning multiple genres, coming together to create an original performance series at a Los Angeles night club." It’ll balance insights into the artists’ "complicated lives" with music videos featuring — and this is where we really started to get interested — "original songs...
- 6/16/2018
- by Editorial Staff
- Life and Style
When Netflix announced last year that it would revive “Queer Eye,” the hit reality makeover show from a decade ago, the internet responded with a resounding “why?”
“The rights came back,” David Collins, co-creator and executive producer of “Queer Eye” said Tuesday night. The show, he explained, was “available for us to take out again.”
Collins appeared at a panel discussion hosted by Hrts, where he was joined by other unscripted producers and executives — as well as moderator Scott Hervey — to discuss the phenomena of rebooting successful reality franchises.
“The show has always been evergreen,” Collins said. “The format was beloved. It had international appeal. The run that we had originally on Bravo had been wonderful, but the time came when it ended, and there was just enough time to kind of settle it. And quite frankly, the Republican world came to be, and it was time for a new...
“The rights came back,” David Collins, co-creator and executive producer of “Queer Eye” said Tuesday night. The show, he explained, was “available for us to take out again.”
Collins appeared at a panel discussion hosted by Hrts, where he was joined by other unscripted producers and executives — as well as moderator Scott Hervey — to discuss the phenomena of rebooting successful reality franchises.
“The show has always been evergreen,” Collins said. “The format was beloved. It had international appeal. The run that we had originally on Bravo had been wonderful, but the time came when it ended, and there was just enough time to kind of settle it. And quite frankly, the Republican world came to be, and it was time for a new...
- 4/25/2018
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
Bravo Media made a number of promotions today including Lara Spotts to Svp Development, and La-based Jenn Levy and Kathleen French to Svp Production. Additionally, David O’Connell, Svp Production Operations, and David Brewer, VP Program Strategy & Acquisitions, have expanded their oversight of Oxygen Media while continuing to supervise Bravo. Based in New York, Spotts will lead Bravo’s scripted and non-scripted developments on both the East and West Coast for pilots, casting reels and original concepts. She reports to Frances Berwick, President of Bravo and Oxygen Media. Levy spearheads production on some of Bravo’s hit series including Shahs Of Sunset and the Million Dollar Listing franchise while also overseeing the executives in charge of Top Chef, Below Deck and new series Online Dating Rituals Of The American Male. French oversees such series as Southern Charm, the upcoming Ladies To London while also managing the executives in charge of...
- 3/6/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Photo by Chris Haston/Bravo
The South by Southwest Festival is in full swing in Austin, Texas, as bands, fans and industry insiders nationwide gather at one of the biggest music events of the year. Bravo is using the festival to help promote an upcoming new series, Platinum Hit.
The show is an American Idol for songwriters due to hit TV screens this summer. It will follow 12 aspiring composers as they vie for $100,000 and a publishing deal with Sony and Bmi. Jewel will act as host and will join head judge Kara DioGuardi at critiquing the contestants.
At SxSW on Wednesday, March 16, Bravo is hosting a panel called "Platinum Hit - How to Become the Next Big Hitmaker." In addition to a sneak peak of the series, the panel will feature a Q&A session with Jewel and Evan Bogart (who has written songs for Beyoncé, Britney Spears and Rihanna), Keith Naftaly,...
The South by Southwest Festival is in full swing in Austin, Texas, as bands, fans and industry insiders nationwide gather at one of the biggest music events of the year. Bravo is using the festival to help promote an upcoming new series, Platinum Hit.
The show is an American Idol for songwriters due to hit TV screens this summer. It will follow 12 aspiring composers as they vie for $100,000 and a publishing deal with Sony and Bmi. Jewel will act as host and will join head judge Kara DioGuardi at critiquing the contestants.
At SxSW on Wednesday, March 16, Bravo is hosting a panel called "Platinum Hit - How to Become the Next Big Hitmaker." In addition to a sneak peak of the series, the panel will feature a Q&A session with Jewel and Evan Bogart (who has written songs for Beyoncé, Britney Spears and Rihanna), Keith Naftaly,...
- 3/15/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
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