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Lionsgate Launches Alternative TV Division With eOne Assets, Hires Dirk Hoogstra
Lionsgate is bringing eOne’s unscripted assets together with its own non-fiction division after closing its $375M deal for the company. It is launching Lionsgate Alternative Television, which will …
This comes after Deadline revealed that Hoogstra was leaving Half Yard Productions, the Peter Chernin-owned company behind TLC’s Say Yes To The Dress, at the end of last year. Lionsgate Alternative Television’s management team will include Pilgrim Media Group’s President & COO Gretchen Stockdale and Chief Current Officer & GM Nicholas Caprio, while Renegade bosses David Garfinkle and Jay Renfroe will serve as Senior Executives on the team. “As a major force in the non-scripted programming world, Craig is the perfect executive to take our unscripted operations to the next level.”
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