2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: Good Walk Entertainment, nan accumulation institution founded by erstwhile apical Comedy Central executives Kent Alterman and Sarah Babineau, has signed a first-look woody pinch Sony Pictures Television.
Under nan pact, nan duo will create and nutrient scripted drama and play bid for nan indie studio, starting pinch 3 projects that are already successful nan works: comedies pinch writer Jessi Klein, who is nether a Sony TV wide deal, and writer Aadrita Mukerji, arsenic good arsenic a play pinch head Jonathan Krisel.
Alterman spent 2 decades astatine Comedy Central complete 2 stints, rising to President. He departed successful November 2019, successful nan aftermath of nan CBS-Viacom merger. Babineau, 1 of his apical lieutenants who served arsenic co-head of original contented astatine nan web and concisely arsenic Head of Comedy Central Content & Creative Enterprises pursuing Alterman’s exit, near astatine nan extremity of 2020 aft six years.
The 2 went connected to motorboat Good Walk which astir precocious had a first-look woody pinch FX. They kept it busness-y successful their connection astir nan caller pact pinch Sony TV, a departure from nan humorous property merchandise quotes Alterman was known for astatine Comedy Central.
“We are thrilled to partner pinch Katherine Pope and her smart, thoughtful teams successful drama and drama, and consciousness flattered to beryllium amongst nan high-level talent relationships they person successful their tent”, Alterman and Babineau said. “We judge that together we will beryllium capable to present nan benignant of high-quality, character-driven, big-idea shows that audiences are genuinely clamoring for.”
During their Comedy Central tenures, Alterman and Babineau, individually aliases together, shepherded specified bid arsenic South Park, Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, Kroll Show, Nathan For You, Broad City, Drunk History, The Daily Show pinch Trevor Noah, Awkwafina is Nora From Queens, The Other Two, and South Side.
“Kent has a crisp oculus for groundbreaking drama and has spent decades turning earthy talent into stars and championing nan benignant of drama auteurs who specify an era,” said Katherine Pope, President Sony Pictures Television Studios. “Together pinch Sarah, whose heavy imaginative instincts and genuine passion lucifer his astatine each turn, nan 2 of them couldn’t beryllium a much cleanable summation to our Sony Family.”
Between his 2 tours of work astatine Comedy Central, Alterman had an wide movie woody astatine Fox Film Studios and served arsenic EVP astatine New Line Cinema, moving connected films including Elf, A History of Violence, Little Children, and Semi-Pro, which he directed and executive produced.
Before joining Comedy Central, Babineau was astatine Amazon Studios, wherever she helped motorboat its first slate of original programming, including bid Transparent and Mozart successful nan Jungle. Earlier, she worked arsenic a imaginative executive astatine Sacha Baron Cohen’s Four by Two Films.
Alterman and Babineau are expected to create some drama and play projects, and Alterman has play acquisition from his clip astatine New Line and his year-long stint arsenic President of Comedy Central, Paramount Network, and TV Land, overseeing nan then-drama-driven Paramount Network, location of Yellowstone.
Still, their expertise is successful comedy. While Sony Television’s attraction has been connected play since exiting nan broadcast live-action drama business a fewer years ago, nan workplace has been slow regrowing its drama footprint. It presently has nan live-action series Platonic at Apple TV and Twisted Metal at Peacock and nan animated Universal Basic Guys at Fox, pinch respective projects successful development, including nan animated Swap Meet at Hulu and nan live-action Save nan Date, successful soul development.
Good Walk’s pre-existing improvement slate spans TV and characteristic movie projects astatine FX, Prime Video, Fox, Imagine, 20th Television, and Warner Bros. Animation. The institution is besides a co-production partner connected respective world projects pinch New Metric Media, which made an equity investment successful Good Walk past fall.
