The New York Post has started a new entertainment division to produce television, Variety reported.
TV producer Troy Searer has been brought on as president of New York Post Entertainment. The division will do scripted and unscripted material for cable, streaming, broadcast and emerging platforms, according to Variety.
Searer has produced series for A+E, VH1, TLC and Discovery.
“It’s a real opportunity,” Jesse Angelo, CEO and publisher of the Post, told Variety. “There is so much hunger for original television content for differentiated IP, for storytellers that have voice, and we have those things. We were able to show some success with ‘Page Six TV’ and show that we could swim in these waters, and we wanted to take it to the next level. We have a couple other deals in development, a couple other projects that we’re working on, and I just realized the time had come to get somebody to head up these efforts out of Los Angeles and take it to the next level.”
The move comes on the heels of the successful premiere in 2017 of Endemol Shine North America’s “Page Six TV,” based on the Post’s gossip section. The program, hosted by Bevy Smith, Variety’s Elizabeth Wagmeister, and the Post’s Carlos Greer, has been re-upped for a second season.
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