The veteran producer says broadcast networks are still the programming gold standard. “With broadcast, you may be taking a ton of risk going into it, but you can still potentially create something like The Office or The Biggest Loser, which has huge back-end revenue streams, not just the front-end, commercial upside,” he says.
Ben Silverman has reunited with a longtime partner, joining Howard T. Owens as co-chairman and CEO of the A+E Networks-backed production company Propagate Content.
Ben Silverman has reunited with a longtime partner, joining Howard T. Owens as co-chairman and CEO of the A+E Networks-backed production company Propagate Content.
Apple announced Thursday that its first venture into original programming will be an unscripted series about apps and the app economy. There is no word yet on whether or how the show, which Apple is doing with the singer Will.i.am and two veteran TV executives, Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens, will portray or promote Apple’s own app business.
The executive producer of The Office, Ugly Betty, Jane The Virgin, Marco Polo, The Tudors and The Biggest Loser to kick off NAB’s Media Finance and Investor Conference on April 18.
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The CW’s Jane The Virgin, adapted from a Venezuelan telenovela is the latest show to be adapted from the daily hour-long shows in Spanish to hour-a-week programs suited to American sitcom formats. Ben Silverman, who has worked with other adapted series like The Office which appeared in Great Britain before it became a primetime U.S. show, was the production architect of it as well as ABC’s telenovela adaptation Ugly Betty (2006-10).
Bruce Rosenblum, president of Warner Bros. Television Group and newly sworn in chairman-CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and Ben Silverman, founder and chairman of multimedia studio […]
Ben Silverman’s multimedia studio Electus, an operating business of IAC announced that Chris Grant will join the company as CEO effective Nov. 1. In his new role, Grant will take […]
The guy who moved Leno to 10 o’clock and put a Val Kilmer-voiced Knight Rider on the air is bringing credibility to Web video. Ben Silverman’s Electus, formed last year following the executive’s much-maligned tenure at NBC, has emerged as a deal-making juggernaut in the online video arena, to the extent that many are crediting him with resuscitating a moribund medium.
