The two-minute trailer for Paramount+’s 11 Minutes documentary series opens with Country music fans enjoying the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas before their joy was erased by a mass shooter. Using interviews with concertgoers, cellphone footage, and other videos, 11 Minutes recalls the horrific mass shooting and its aftermath.
The four-part docuseries was directed by Emmy and Peabody-winning director Jeff Zimbalist and features the very first in-depth interview with Jason Aldean. The Country music star was actually on stage when the shooting began.
“When I turned around, my bass player was just looking at me like a deer in the headlights. And my security guy was on stage at that point, telling me to get down, waving me off the stage,” recalled Aldean.
Aldean admits to feeling survivor’s guilt. “It’s hard not to feel a little guilty. I mean, those people were there to support us,...
The four-part docuseries was directed by Emmy and Peabody-winning director Jeff Zimbalist and features the very first in-depth interview with Jason Aldean. The Country music star was actually on stage when the shooting began.
“When I turned around, my bass player was just looking at me like a deer in the headlights. And my security guy was on stage at that point, telling me to get down, waving me off the stage,” recalled Aldean.
Aldean admits to feeling survivor’s guilt. “It’s hard not to feel a little guilty. I mean, those people were there to support us,...
- 9/12/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Exclusive: Fernando Hernandez has joined Center Drive Media, which owns and operates the Emmy-winning non-fiction banner Triage Entertainment and is an equity partner in Lando Entertainment, as Executive Vice President of Development.
In his role at Center Drive, Hernandez will lead all content development across production labels. He will be joined at the company by Ryan Miller and Brennan Huntington—new hires he’s previously worked with that will serve as SVPs. All three additions to Center Drive will work alongside SVP Ashley Hoff, who is also serving as an exec producer on several upcoming Triage documentaries.
“Fernando has excelled at leading studio divisions, in part, because he knows what it takes to actually create and produce successful series from the ground up,” said Center Drive Media CEO Stu Schreiberg.
“I’m excited to be joining a proven company like Center Drive Media which allows for so many opportunities to leverage existing partnerships,...
In his role at Center Drive, Hernandez will lead all content development across production labels. He will be joined at the company by Ryan Miller and Brennan Huntington—new hires he’s previously worked with that will serve as SVPs. All three additions to Center Drive will work alongside SVP Ashley Hoff, who is also serving as an exec producer on several upcoming Triage documentaries.
“Fernando has excelled at leading studio divisions, in part, because he knows what it takes to actually create and produce successful series from the ground up,” said Center Drive Media CEO Stu Schreiberg.
“I’m excited to be joining a proven company like Center Drive Media which allows for so many opportunities to leverage existing partnerships,...
- 2/14/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Levity Live, which owns production houses including Triage Entertainment and Lando Entertainment, has promoted Francesco Pace to Svp Production and added Hayden Boal and Ben Wood as VPs Development.
Pace will oversee physical production for all Levity Live production companies in both linear and streaming programming. For the past four years, He was in charge of production for such lifestyle programming as Guy’s Grocery Games, Iron Chef America and Kids Baking Championship. He also served as executive producer of A Very Brady Renovation, which launched this week as the highest-rated season premiere in Hgtv history.
New VPs Development Boal and Wood will report to Ashley Hoff, Svp Development across all of Levity’s production companies. They worked together at Relativity Television and Critical Content on such projects as The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey for CBS, Who Shot Biggie & Tupac? (Fox), and Chi-Town Flip (Hgtv).
“I’m thrilled to reunite with Hayden and Ben,...
Pace will oversee physical production for all Levity Live production companies in both linear and streaming programming. For the past four years, He was in charge of production for such lifestyle programming as Guy’s Grocery Games, Iron Chef America and Kids Baking Championship. He also served as executive producer of A Very Brady Renovation, which launched this week as the highest-rated season premiere in Hgtv history.
New VPs Development Boal and Wood will report to Ashley Hoff, Svp Development across all of Levity’s production companies. They worked together at Relativity Television and Critical Content on such projects as The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey for CBS, Who Shot Biggie & Tupac? (Fox), and Chi-Town Flip (Hgtv).
“I’m thrilled to reunite with Hayden and Ben,...
- 9/12/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran producer Ashley Hoff is the new Svp Development at Levity Live, the media company that owns multiple production houses, a talent management firm and live entertainment venues around the U.S.
Hoff, a former longtime exec at Critical Content, has a long history in development, working on such unscripted fare as The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey for CBS, The Lowe Files (A&E), Master the Mess (Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine) and the upcoming JFK Jr.-Carolyn Bessette wedding project for TLC.
“Ashley is a gifted development executive,” Levity Live COO Stu Schreiberg said. “She is passionate about story and has excelled in every aspect of production. She understands how to build an original idea into content that is immensely entertaining and producible across a wide range of platforms.”
Before her stint at Critical Content, Hoff was a development executive for Ellen Rakieten, co-creator of The Oprah Winfrey Show, and...
Hoff, a former longtime exec at Critical Content, has a long history in development, working on such unscripted fare as The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey for CBS, The Lowe Files (A&E), Master the Mess (Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine) and the upcoming JFK Jr.-Carolyn Bessette wedding project for TLC.
“Ashley is a gifted development executive,” Levity Live COO Stu Schreiberg said. “She is passionate about story and has excelled in every aspect of production. She understands how to build an original idea into content that is immensely entertaining and producible across a wide range of platforms.”
Before her stint at Critical Content, Hoff was a development executive for Ellen Rakieten, co-creator of The Oprah Winfrey Show, and...
- 4/3/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Critical Content has tapped former ITV Studios America executive Sam Zoda as Evp and Head of Production, along with making other senior-level exec hires and promotions. The appointments follow Critical Content’s acquisition of the TV assets of Jenny Daly’s T Group Productions in November, spearheaded by the independent studio’s founder and CEO Tom Forman, and the naming of Daly as President, Critical Content Studios.
Zoda, a 30-year industry veteran, joins Critical Content after leadership roles at ITV Studios America and serving as Executive in Charge, Production of Dancing With the Stars. Zoda will oversee the Critical Content slate of more than 40 series, pilots and presentations for networks such as Fox, CBS, Netflix, Disney+, HBO, A&E and E! among others.
Zoda helped launch Granada America/ITV Studios America in 2004 as Svp Production and was later promoted to Evp and Chief Operating Officer, Head of Production & Current Programming. Additional credits include Hell’s Kitchen,...
Zoda, a 30-year industry veteran, joins Critical Content after leadership roles at ITV Studios America and serving as Executive in Charge, Production of Dancing With the Stars. Zoda will oversee the Critical Content slate of more than 40 series, pilots and presentations for networks such as Fox, CBS, Netflix, Disney+, HBO, A&E and E! among others.
Zoda helped launch Granada America/ITV Studios America in 2004 as Svp Production and was later promoted to Evp and Chief Operating Officer, Head of Production & Current Programming. Additional credits include Hell’s Kitchen,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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