NBCUniversal has launched an initiative designed to turn TikTokers into its next generation of television creators.
The company has launched a Creator Accelerator that features 11 social media creators. The creators, who have over 10M followers on social media, have signed development deals with Universal Studio Group to create original series as part of the program.
Over the next twelve months, the creators will each have their own NBCUniversal content development mentor to help develop both scripted and unscripted content and they will go through a greenlight process that includes help with pitches.
The group includes Katie Florence, Daren Girdner, Emily Uribe, Gabriella Carter, Reece Feldman, Charlie Curtis-Beard, Erika Priscilla, Vijay Nazareth, Sara Nahusenay, Francesca Fiorentini and Serena Kerrigan.
“Social media has opened up a world of new possibilities for premium video content, including expanding the traditional definition of creative storytellers to include young, up-and-coming diverse creators who are releasing original...
The company has launched a Creator Accelerator that features 11 social media creators. The creators, who have over 10M followers on social media, have signed development deals with Universal Studio Group to create original series as part of the program.
Over the next twelve months, the creators will each have their own NBCUniversal content development mentor to help develop both scripted and unscripted content and they will go through a greenlight process that includes help with pitches.
The group includes Katie Florence, Daren Girdner, Emily Uribe, Gabriella Carter, Reece Feldman, Charlie Curtis-Beard, Erika Priscilla, Vijay Nazareth, Sara Nahusenay, Francesca Fiorentini and Serena Kerrigan.
“Social media has opened up a world of new possibilities for premium video content, including expanding the traditional definition of creative storytellers to include young, up-and-coming diverse creators who are releasing original...
- 10/17/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Usg Audio, the podcast division of Universal Studio Group, is ramping up its slate with two new series.
The company, which was previously known as UCP Audio, is launching Close to Death hosted by comedian Utkarsh Ambudkar, and a second season of The Followers.
The shows form part of the nascent division’s audio slate, which has included Alligator Candy, Loot: Scandalous Stories of the Art World, The Greatness with Kareem Maddox and The Lost Kids. The idea is to use its audio stories as a development tool across its TV units, a move that has already seen UCP developing a docuseries around Josh Bloch’s The Lost Kids.
The Followers: Madness of Two, which will be released on September 15, asks how did a perfect suburban mom get wrapped up with doomsday preppers and prophets? It will tell the story of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell and what drew...
The company, which was previously known as UCP Audio, is launching Close to Death hosted by comedian Utkarsh Ambudkar, and a second season of The Followers.
The shows form part of the nascent division’s audio slate, which has included Alligator Candy, Loot: Scandalous Stories of the Art World, The Greatness with Kareem Maddox and The Lost Kids. The idea is to use its audio stories as a development tool across its TV units, a move that has already seen UCP developing a docuseries around Josh Bloch’s The Lost Kids.
The Followers: Madness of Two, which will be released on September 15, asks how did a perfect suburban mom get wrapped up with doomsday preppers and prophets? It will tell the story of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell and what drew...
- 9/10/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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