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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of nan motorboat of reality bid Calabasas Confidential, Kismet Media has struck an wide woody pinch Wheelhouse.
Kismet Media was founded successful 2022 by Ally Gasparian and Alex Rosenberg, who has worked connected bid including Vanderpump Rules, Next Gen: NYC, Keeping Up With nan Kardashians, The Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise, Buying Beverly Hills and Southern Charm.
The business will bring together Kismet’s producing and casting expertise pinch Wheelhouse’s production, finance and brand-building capabilities. The duo will activity intimately pinch Wheelhouse’s Spoke Studios arsenic good arsenic its different labels and divisions specified arsenic Wheelhouse Sports and it accumulation partners including David Grutman’s DGN Studios.
The 2 companies are moving together connected Netflix reality bid Calabasas Confidential, which premieres connected May 29.
The show follows a group of lifelong friends who return to Calabasas, CA, post-college for a summertime of reckoning – facing unresolved dramas from nan past while trying to fig retired their futures.
The cast, including immoderate notable nepo babies includes Alexie Epstein, Ben Favaedi, Dylan Wolf, Emilie Nelson, Emma Medrano, Hercy Miller, Jemma Durrant, Jodie Woods, Kimora Lewis, Nicole Sahebi, Preston Pippen, Raine Michaels, Sterling Retzlaff and Suede Brooks.
Gasparian and Rosenberg service arsenic executive producers connected nan show, alongside Wheelhouse’s Gardner Reed, pinch whom they developed nan bid and Wheelhouse’s Brent Montgomery, Courtney White, Will Nothacker and Bill Dixon.
Netflix is intelligibly precocious connected nan show. VP, Unscripted Jeff Gaspin said, “When personification successful their 20s comes to sojourn Los Angeles, there’s 2 places they want to go, and it’s not Disneyland aliases Universal: It’s Calabasas and Erewhon. It benignant of blows my mind,” Gaspin said. “I’m not a Calabasas native, but I moved present erstwhile I moved to L.A. successful 2001. It utilized to beryllium a pumpkin municipality and everyone would say, ‘Why are you moving each nan measurement retired there?’ But then, of course, a definite family moved successful [to Hidden Hills] and put Calabasas connected nan map.”
In summation to that, Kismet is besides processing bid pinch Bravo and E!.
“At Kismet, we’re focused connected bold, young, and character-driven storytelling—shows built astir existent group and existent dynamics that audiences can’t look distant from,” Gasparian and Rosenberg said. “We’ve ever believed successful betting connected ourselves and from nan infinitesimal we met, it virtually was kismet. We’re thrilled that Wheelhouse sees that aforesaid imagination and is betting connected america too.”
Wheelhouse Entertainment President Courtney White added, “Ally and Alex person a unsocial accomplishment group tailored for a zeitgeist-driven contented landscape—blending characteristic and storytelling pinch what’s happening successful nan world and what young audiences are obsessed with. We’re excited for what we cognize will beryllium a awesome thrust together.”
