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Sean Gallagher Dies: Former Discovery Exec & Half Yard Productions Founder Was 57


Sean Gallagher, one of the founders of Say Yes To The Dress producer Half Yard Productions who spent over a decade at Discovery, has died.

In addition to TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress, the company made hundreds of hours of unscripted television including Bravo’s The Real Housewives of D.C., Animal Planet’s Hillbilly Handfishin’ and Discovery’s American Loggers and The Last Alaskans, Nat Geo’s Diggers and History’s How The States Got Their Shapes. He commissioned or exec produced series including Discovery Channel’s Monster Garage, American Chopper, Dirty Jobs, Deadliest Catch and MythBusters and TLC’s Little People, Big World. Pilgrim Media Group’s Craig Piligian, who runs Lionsgate Alternative Television as its managing director, first sold a series, Inside The CIA, marking the first time the intelligence agency opened its doors to cameras, to Gallagher in 1997.

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