Endeavor Content Recruits Eric Pertilla As VP Of TV Development And Production, Announces Several Promotions & Hires Across TV Division

Fans were upset when Bethenny Frankel, 50, announced she was done with The Real Housewives of New York City. Ot turns out she had big plans in mind: this April, she’ll be back for her newest project The Big Shot With Bethenny all while running her Skinnygirl empire and hosting a new podcast.

Liesl Copland— a partner atEndeavor Content— has joined Participant media to focus on how the company's slate of projects can bebest placed in the ever-changing global distribution infrastructure. Copland, wholed the Non-Scripted Advisory practice focusing onfeature documentaries and premium non-fiction series atEndeavor, will join Participant in the newly established role of executive vp of content and platform strategy.

If you want to speak truth to power, then write a story. That was Aaron Sorkin’s message at the 2017 WGA Awards when he picked up his Paddy Chayefsky honor.

Former Endeavor Content Partner and EVP Liesl Copland is joining Participant in the newly created role of EVP Content and Platform Strategy.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterParticipant has tapped Endeavor Content veteran Liesl Copland to step into the newly established role of executive vice president of content and platform strategy, where she will be tasked with designing and implementing how the company’s film and TV slate fits into the global distribution infrastructure.Copland will oversee all sales and guide the company’s strategic options for all properties, working cross-functionally with exec VPs of narrative film Anikah McLaren

The good news in Los Angeles this week is that the city’s largest Covid-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium will reopen. The bad news is, for the second week in a row, the city has next to no first doses of vaccine to administer.

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United's quiet summer of 2020 will surely not be repeated in 2021. Despite the obvious ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic United will surely dip into the summer market.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAwards season contender “News of the World” is a departure for director Paul Greengrass after such high-adrenaline contempo movies as his Jason Bourne trio and “22 July.” He reunites with “Captain Phillips” star Tom Hanks in Universal’s Western about Captain Kidd, a man delivering the news to towns in Texas, accompanied by the orphan Johanna.

Dave Chappelle‘s show is coming back to Netflix!

“I think often what can happen with period pieces, as well as Westerns, is they just get kind of fancy—and sometimes, it works for the story. But when you look at pictures from the time period of towns all over the U.S., on the edge of things, things were rough. No one was worrying about having the perfect colored front door.” — David Crank

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorWME and the WGA have finally come to terms on a settlement that will allow WME to resume representing writers after a nearly two-year standoff with the guild.The WGA is expected to announce the pact later today.

Marvel‘s “Blade” reboot finally has a screenwriter after their six-month search has concluded. Today, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Marvel has chosen Stacy Osei-Kuffour to write the script for their upcoming feature film that will have two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali in the role of Eric Brooks, aka Blade.

UTA has hired Erik Telford as an agent. Telford, who has worked with such artists and social activists, as Barry Jenkins, Jesse Williams, Yara Shahidi and Janet Mock, will work across both the Culture and Leadership and Speakers divisions.

Endeavor Content has named Eric Pertilla as vp of television development and production. Pertilla joins Endeavor from CBS All Access, where he was director of original content for two years, with series credits like the Richard Linklater series That Animal Rescue Show, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: Discovery, The Good Fight and Texas 6.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterEric Pertilla is joining Endeavor Content to become its vice president of television development and production.He was most recently director of original content at CBS All Access for the past two years, where he oversaw Richard Linklater series “That Animal Rescue Show” and led development of “The Twilight Zone,” “Star Trek: Discovery,” “The Good Fight,” and “Texas 6.”“Endeavor Content presents a tremendous opportunity to work with one of the industry’s most

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content and Ink Factory are developing and co-producing a series adaptation of Yasmin Angoe’s anticipated debut novel Her Name Is Knight. The seven-figure deal was brokered by UTA in a competitive situation.

ICM Partners has announced the promotion of 14 agents – seven from 2020 and seven from 2021 – across a number of divisions including concerts, TV production, literature and talent.