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MOM’S POWER BREAKFAST
NY Daily News
by Marianne Garvey, Brian Niemietz and Oli Coleman
Original Article
Photo: Author Keri Glassman
DivaMoms founder Lyss Stern and Veronica Webb will moderate a panel with fellow power mommies about juggling careers and family on May 7. The third Annual Mom Moguls Breakfast guests will include actress Kelly Rutherford, Donna Karan senior vice president of global communications Aliza Licht, interior designer Genevieve Gorder and author Keri Glassman.
TV REVIEW: ‘BIG TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, FL’
Variety
by Brian Lowry, TV Columnist
Original Article Photo courtesy of Comedy Central
Comedy Central produces enough misfires that the appeal of those shows that spark to life, a la “Broad City,” is perhaps magnified. So it is with “Big Time in Hollywood, FL,” an infectiously energetic, wonderfully silly serialized comedy that feels like a mashup of the Three Stooges and Quentin Tarantino. Featuring several well-known actors in smallish roles (including producer Ben Stiller and Cuba Gooding Jr. as a hilarious version of himself), the 10-episode order isn’t exactly highbrow, but contains enough laugh-out-loud moments to indeed put co-creators Alex Anfanger and Dan Schimpf well on their way to the big time.
Anfanger (who had a role in Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”) and Lenny Jacobson (a “Nurse Jackie” alum) star as brothers Jack and Ben, who are living with, and off, their parents (Stephen Tobolowsky and Kathy Baker) in order to chase their filmmaking dreams, producing perfectly awful little films that they post on YouTube.
Like latter-day versions of Dobie Gillis’ Maynard G. Krebs (“Work!”), their folks’ suggestion that the two move out and get real jobs positively horrifies them, so much so that they begin a series of elaborate lies that lead them down a rabbit hole filled with escalating danger and mayhem.
COMIC CHRIS GETHARD TAKES HIS SHOW FROM PUBLIC ACCESS TO CABLE’S FUSION
Variety
by Brian Steinberg, Senior TV Editor
Original Article
Fusion is adding to its schedule of satire programming.
The joint venture of Univision and ABC News said it would launch“The Chris Gethard Show,” featuring a comedian who has worked his way through the ranks of New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theater to the small stage of public-access TV, for ten weeks in 2015. The show is produced by Funny Or Die and is slated to debut on Fusion in April at a date to be announced at a later time. Gethard hosts each episode with a panel of guests, some famous, and one always seemingly very random, and asks them to take part in an improvised, one-hour show with a decidedly oddball tone.
“Chris Gethard’s brand of comedy is unlike anything else out there, but his authenticity and charm have made him one of the best-kept secrets in comedy circles for years,” said Fusion Chief Programming Officer Wade Beckett, in a prepared statement. “The best comedians make their audience feel invested in and a part of the live experience, and there’s no one who does that better these days than Chris Gethard. We can’t wait for Fusion’s audience to meet and experience the Chris we know and love.”
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Former Brillstein Entertainment Partners Manager, Brian Stern Joins AGI Entertainment Media & Management As Senior VP
Stern is a veteran manager and producer in scripted content, representing Actors, Comedians, Writers and Hosts
NEW YORK – JANUARY 30, 2015 AGI Entertainment Media & Management CEO, Ken Slotnick, announced industry veteran Brian Stern has joined the company as Senior Vice President. Brian was most recently a Gotham based manager and producer at Brillstein Entertainment Partners and before that, was a senior talent rep for more than ten years at the William Morris Agency.
Brian is an Executive Producer of the upcoming Ben Stiller/Brillstein produced Comedy Central series, “BIG TIME IN HOLLYWOOD FL” and EP with Funny or Die on Fusion’s “The Chris Gethard Show” and brings with him a diverse list of clients that includes Amy Landecker (Amazon’s “TRANSPARENT”), Samantha Bee (“THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART”), Colin Quinn, Bryan Tucker (head writer at SNL), comedians Chris Gethard, Dan Soder, Omid Djalili, playwright Bob Martin (Broadway’s upcoming “THE STING”), Ben Lyons (YAHOO! LIVE and ESPN Radio), Connor Hines (creator of webseries, “LOCAL ATTRACTION” being developed by ABC Studios) and writers Travon Free (“THE DAILY SHOW”) and Jesse Joyce (COMEDY CENTRAL’S “@MIDNIGHT”) among others.
Ken Slotnick commented, “…with almost 20 years of experience working with high level actors, writers, comedians and hosts for all media platforms, Brian brings great depth of experience to our team. I worked with Brian for a decade at WMA and know he has a great eye for both talent and material. We are excited to have him on board”.
Brian Stern said, “I’m thrilled to join AGI Entertainment Media & Management and to be part of the Y Entertainment Group family of companies. This star focused ecosystem is a powerful platform that opens the door for me to offer clients and projects high levels of connectivity, knowledge and experience. I had a great run at Brillstein and look forward to finding projects to produce with them”.
AGI Entertainment Media & Management was formed in January 2014 as AGI Lifestyle Entertainment to represent tv presenters and other high-level personalities, producers and projects in the non-scripted television, culinary, fashion, style, home and health & wellness categories. CEO, Ken Slotnick clarified the company name change, “With the arrival of Brian and his clients in the talent, comedy, writing and producing spaces, we now manage a broader spectrum of clients… so we changed the company name to reflect this expansion into more diverse areas of representation going forward”. In addition to Brian’s client roster, the company manages some of the biggest stars and producers in the tv and lifestyle space such as The Talk/Big Brother host Julie Chen, Fashion icon Heidi Klum, Food Network chef/host Curtis Stone, Cosmopolitan Editor in Chief and Project Runway mentor, Joanna Coles and many others.
AGI Entertainment Media & Management is part of the Y Entertainment Group family of agency and management companies which include leading live music booking agency, Artist Group International, and the preeminent boutique literary agency, AGI Vigliano Literary. All of Y Entertainment’s agency & management group companies are now united under one roof at the company’s new, expanded New York group headquarters space at 150 E 58th Street in Manhattan.
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
AGI ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA & MANAGEMENT
aeyzengart@agi-entertainment.com
www.AGI-Entertainment.com
AGI Lifestyle Entertainment, first of its kind lifestyle focused management company, grows its brand partnership division and adds to team of development execs
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