For more than a year, Belisa Balaban has been responsible for Pivot’s alternative programming including the network’s popular series HitRECord and documentary Teach. Now Participant Media’s Pivot has promoted Balaban to Evp Original Programming for the network targeting millenials. She’ll be based at Participant’s Los Angeles offices and will report to Pivot President, Evan Shapiro. Balaban’s prior projects include the 10-episode documentary series The Swell Life and the Emmy-nominated special It Gets Better. As co-founder of Snackaholic, she executive produced pilots and series, including Tabloid Wars for Bravo, and Bollywood Hero, a three-hour musical comedy for IFC, as well as the recent Grammy nominee From The Sky Down about the making of U2’s Achtung Baby. Previously Balaban oversaw and developed pilots and series for Actual Reality Pictures including, Freshman Diaries for Showtime, Military Diaries for VH1, and Thin for HBO Documentary Films.
- 4/10/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Emmy-winning documentarian R.J. Cutler is looking to tackle race relations in today's America with a reality series project for FX. The project, still in development, will chronicle the lives of a white family and a black family, possibly living under one roof. "It is a provocative examination of race relations and how it affects real people," Cutler said. "It's going to be entertaining; it's going to be engaging; it's going to be challenging and provocative, but in really accessible way." A nationwide talent search is under way for white and black families to take part in the series. The new project reunites Cutler with FX, where he originally developed the reality series American Candidate, now set up at Showtime. The idea for a reality series examining race relations came out of a meeting Cutler had with FX entertainment president John Landgraf soon after Landgraf took the job in January, the producer-director said. Cutler's Fox/PBS series American High won an Emmy for best reality series in 2001. His credits also include Showtime's Freshman Diaries, Discovery Health's The Residents and ABC's The Real Roseanne Show.
- 4/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- After getting its plug pulled at TNT, an R.J. Cutler documentary series about doctors in training is being resuscitated. Produced by Cutler's Actual Reality Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Television, The Residents will reappear on Discovery Health Channel, a cable network owned by Discovery Networks, beginning Oct. 12. "We're happy to be with Discovery Health," said Cutler, whose TV credits include ABC's The Real Roseanne Show and Showtime's Freshman Diaries. " 'Residents' is amongst the best work my company has produced."...
- 9/29/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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