Tyler Perry is extending his partnership with Paramount. The prolific creator has signed a big new agreement with the company’s BET Media. Under the pact, he will deliver hundreds of new episodes to BET and BET+ spanning existing and new series.
Tyler Perry‘s catalog of BET series, including Tyler Perry’s Sistas, Tyler Perry’s The Oval and Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, is hitting the off-net market. BET is set to announce on Wednesday at the CES convention in Las Vegas that its library of Tyler Perry original series will soon be available for licensing and syndication by third-party platforms, including SVOD, AVOD, FAST and broadcast. According to BET, the offering includes eight different original series encompassing more than 750 episodes and nearly 600 hours of content.
Filmmaker and media mogul Tyler Perry has a new, multi-year, first-look deal with Netflix that will see him write, direct and produce features for the streamer. News of the creative partnership comes following Perry’s pact with Amazon Studios in November 2022 to write, direct and produce four features for Prime Video. Perry comes to it after working extensively with Netflix in recent years, including on the forthcoming features Six Triple Eight and Mea Culpa.
The writer, director, producer and actor is a one-man show who’s found incredible commercial success and turned Atlanta into a film and television hotbed.
Tyler Perry has submitted a final takeover bid for Black Entertainment Television Group — but it falls a whopping $1 billion short of the $3 billion that owner Paramount Global has been asking. The Madea creator has offered $2 billion for BET Group — whose properties include cable channels BET and VH1 along with the BET+ streaming service — to meet Paramount’s final bidding deadline last week, according to insiders.
Media mogul Tyler Perry refuses to cough up the $3 billion-plus that Paramount is asking in an auction of Black Entertainment Television — and the fierce haggling has begun to throw a sale into doubt. Perry has been considered the frontrunner to win the auction for BET Group, whose properties include cable channels BET and VH1 along with the BET+ streaming service. But Perry is losing patience with the drawn-out process after making an offer that’s short of $3 billion — a price tag that other investors also consider to be lofty, according to a source close to the situation.
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Paramount is exploring a potential sale of a majority stake in its BET business, which includes BET, VH1 and the BET+ streaming service. Among interested buyers are Tyler Perry, a longtime partner of BET, who is engaged in conversations to buy the stake., and Byron Allen, who controls a number of local TV stations as well as The Weather Channel and other assets via his Allen Media Group and Entertainment Studios firms. “Byron Allen is interested in buying BET, and he will be pursuing the acquisition of the network,” a rep for the mogul says.
Amid the backlash to Georgia’s sweeping overhaul of voting rights, Hollywood heavyweights are threatening economic consequences for the production-friendly state and calling for a federal investigation. On Tuesday, Tyler Perry became the latest filmmaker to speak out, encouraging the the Department of Justice to evaluate the law and saying that it “harkens to the Jim Crow era.” Perry’s ascent as an independent mogul during the past two decades has paralleled Atlanta’s rise to prominence as a TV and film production hub.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Perry has won awards from the NAACP and BET. Now he’s getting a big one from the Television Academy: He and his foundation are the […]
Viacom plans to launch a streaming service focused on the African-American cable network called BET+. The upcoming service, which will launch in the fall, will feature original content from Tyler Perry, who will be a financial stakeholder in the service.
In one of the biggest talent deals under the new Viacom leadership, the company has signed a long-term pact with prolific writer, director, producer and actor Tyler Perry, which encompasses television, film and short- form video. Under the agreement, Perry will produce approximately 90 episodes annually of original drama and comedy series for BET and other Viacom networks.
NEW YORK (AP) — When Tyler Perry began creating shows for the then-struggling OWN Network four years ago, he’d send the scripts he’d written to Oprah Winfrey for approval — […]
For Better or Worse, about three couples dealing with the challenges of dating and married life, will move from TBS to OWN for its third season, starting this fall.
After a rocky start marked by low ratings, executive shakeups, and layoffs, Oprah Winfrey’s network is getting some good news. Its latest quarter, from July to September, was its biggest in ratings growth. And this week, the network announced it will air two shows next year from Tyler Perry, who has a special talent for tapping into once-overlooked audiences. The shows will be the first scripted programs for the network.
Tyler Perry’s new exclusive deal to create programming for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN means he is shelving his ambitions to launch his own cable network, Tyler TV.
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta fire officials say the structure of a building at filmmaker Tyler Perry’s studio is fine after part of it caught fire, sending flames into the night […]
Tyler TV will broadcast runs of Tyler Perry’s sitcoms and movies, and third-party content consistent with his Christian-tinged brand.
