Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens' Propagate Content has landed a $50M investment. The capital injection is coming from Ares Management funds, and will go towards expansion in digital, studio and creator representation, as well as its traditional talent management. Financial terms of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Propagate, the indie studio founded by Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens, has wrapped production on Boy George & Culture Club, a documentary on the iconic New Wave band of the same name and its frontman, from director Alison Ellwood (Laurel Canyon). The doc is said to offer a…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Studios and Propagate Content have teamed with actor and manga fan Masi Oka (Heroes, Hawaii Five-0) to develop a television adaptation of dark fantasy manga series Claymore in partnership with Japanese publishing company Shueisha. Oka will serve as executive producer alongside Ben…

Ben Silverman has revealed that Netflix is exploring how the pair’s doc series Untold could be turned into an international franchise for the streamer. The Propagate chief told an audience at Content London that discussions were taking place about making episodes of the anthology sports doc…

EXCLUSIVE: An eponymous gender-swapped reimagination of the classic masked vigilante Zorro is in the works at CBS from CBS Studios, sources tell Deadline. Zorro hails from filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, his writer-director sister Rebecca Rodriguez and Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens'…

Bassem Youssef Helming Health Reality Series With Propagate Selling Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef is launching a reality series in which best friends, couples and family members are flown to a remote exotic island in Abu Dhabi to face their biggest fear: learning to become healthy. Propagate…

Jane the Virgin will become a proud young Zulu woman in a South African remake of the romantic comedy-drama format. The format's rights holder, Propagate International, has licensed the rights to Alta Global Media to develop a South African version of the series, which will be shot in the local…

EXCLUSIVE: The final TV show to be filmed in Ukraine before the war commenced is nearing completion in a bomb shelter. Porn, I Love You, a rare U.S./Ukraine co-production from Netflix’s Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom producer Den Tolmor, was filmed in Kyiv just prior to the war starting and editors…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central has set up Out of Office (working title), a workplace comedy film from The Office executive producers Ben Silverman and Paul Lieberstein. The movie, which is set to premiere this summer, is a co-production of MTV Entertainment Studios, CBS Studios and Silverman and Howard T. Owens…

Propagate has promoted Rodney Ferrell to President, Worldwide Scripted Content. The former Fox exec, who joined Propagate in 2019 as Executive Vice President, Scripted Television, will oversee global production and development for all the A+E Network-backed independent production company’s scripted…

Big Breakfast, the Propagate-owned production company behind series including truTV's Adam Ruins Everything, has set a new top table. Jason Schrift, former co-exec producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, has been named President, while Luke Kelly-Clyne, who was formerly President and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Healey…

EXCLUSIVE: The pre-NBA history of Black athletes in basketball is the subject of a documentary being developed by LA Lakers star Russell Westbrook and his Zero World Media (Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre), Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens' Propagate Content and The Black Fives Foundation. Known as the…