Stak today announces it has reached 300 million all-time podcast downloads across its releases, including Football Ramble, Jaack Maate’s Happy Hour, P1 with Matt and Tommy, The Interruption, Abroad in Japan, Wrestle Me and Eureka! with Rick Edwards and Dr Michael Brooks.
Since its launch in 2018, Stak has become home to over 30 shows and 12 full-time employees. It’s best known for podcasts which champion independent voices and engage communities within everything from sports to science. At the British Podcast Awards 2022, the team won Silver for ‘Best Network’ and ‘Best Sports Podcast’ for Football Ramble Presents. It followed that success up this year with a nod for Best Sports Documentary at the Sports Journalism Awards for its Inside The Qatar World Cup series.
Founded by Jon Teague (CEO), Luke Moore (COO) and Pete Donaldson (Creative Director), the Stak team have gone from the kitchen table to 300 million downloads. The trio first...
Since its launch in 2018, Stak has become home to over 30 shows and 12 full-time employees. It’s best known for podcasts which champion independent voices and engage communities within everything from sports to science. At the British Podcast Awards 2022, the team won Silver for ‘Best Network’ and ‘Best Sports Podcast’ for Football Ramble Presents. It followed that success up this year with a nod for Best Sports Documentary at the Sports Journalism Awards for its Inside The Qatar World Cup series.
Founded by Jon Teague (CEO), Luke Moore (COO) and Pete Donaldson (Creative Director), the Stak team have gone from the kitchen table to 300 million downloads. The trio first...
- 7/3/2023
- Podnews.net
Exclusive: Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, former Law & Order: Svu showrunner Neal Baer and Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Amber Benson are among a slew of creatives working on a slate of scripted podcasts for Echoverse.
The podcast studio, which focuses on scripted science fiction, supernatural and fantasy audio drama, has a slate of more than two dozen projects in development or prepping for production with its first series set to launch this fall.
Echoverse was launched last year by Lloyd Braun’s Whalerock Industries, the production and consulting company behind such unscripted series as Battlebots, Hyperdrive and Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness, and is run by former Syfy executive Mark Stern.
“It’s been a very busy year and we couldn’t be more excited about the growing slate of projects that we are helping this talented group of writers and producers bring to fruition. I can...
The podcast studio, which focuses on scripted science fiction, supernatural and fantasy audio drama, has a slate of more than two dozen projects in development or prepping for production with its first series set to launch this fall.
Echoverse was launched last year by Lloyd Braun’s Whalerock Industries, the production and consulting company behind such unscripted series as Battlebots, Hyperdrive and Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness, and is run by former Syfy executive Mark Stern.
“It’s been a very busy year and we couldn’t be more excited about the growing slate of projects that we are helping this talented group of writers and producers bring to fruition. I can...
- 7/28/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The CW is officially moving forward with its planted pilot spinoff of All American with Geffri Maya reprising her role as Simone Hicks.
The pilot will air as an episode in the current third season of the show.
All American: Homecoming is the third planted pilot for the youth-skewing broadcaster this season, joining Nancy Drewspinoff Tom Swift and Black Lightning spinoff Painkiller.
It is a young-adult sports drama set against the backdrop of the Hbcu experience. It follows a young tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills and an elite baseball player from Chicago as they contend with the high stakes of college sports, while also navigating the highs, lows and sexiness of unsupervised early adulthood at a prestigious Historically Black College.
Maya, who starred in ABC’s Private Practice, stars in the spinoff, and it will be written by All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll, who also will exec produce alongside Greg Berlanti,...
The pilot will air as an episode in the current third season of the show.
All American: Homecoming is the third planted pilot for the youth-skewing broadcaster this season, joining Nancy Drewspinoff Tom Swift and Black Lightning spinoff Painkiller.
It is a young-adult sports drama set against the backdrop of the Hbcu experience. It follows a young tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills and an elite baseball player from Chicago as they contend with the high stakes of college sports, while also navigating the highs, lows and sexiness of unsupervised early adulthood at a prestigious Historically Black College.
Maya, who starred in ABC’s Private Practice, stars in the spinoff, and it will be written by All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll, who also will exec produce alongside Greg Berlanti,...
- 2/1/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Filmmaking brothers Michael and Peter Spierig have boarded the supernatural thriller series adaptation of the popular literary “Ben Walker” franchise, developed by Stuart Ford’s Agc Television.
Rob Carlson at UTA negotiated the deal on behalf of the Spierig Brothers with Agc Television President Lourdes Diaz, Agc’s VP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa, and VP of Scripted Television Matt Bankston.
Ford, Diaz, creator Christopher Golden, and Pete Donaldson for Donaldson Media & Consulting will executive produce.
The Spierig brothers hit the ground running in 2003 when their debut feature “Undead” won the Fipresci Award and enjoyed a North American release handled by Lionsgate. Their follow up, “Daybreakers,” starred Ethan Hawke and was a hit at that year’s Midnight Madness in Toronto, before again enjoying a theatrical run again handled by Lionsgate.
Since then the two have found continued success with features such as “Predestination” – once again with Hawke in the leading role,...
Rob Carlson at UTA negotiated the deal on behalf of the Spierig Brothers with Agc Television President Lourdes Diaz, Agc’s VP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa, and VP of Scripted Television Matt Bankston.
Ford, Diaz, creator Christopher Golden, and Pete Donaldson for Donaldson Media & Consulting will executive produce.
The Spierig brothers hit the ground running in 2003 when their debut feature “Undead” won the Fipresci Award and enjoyed a North American release handled by Lionsgate. Their follow up, “Daybreakers,” starred Ethan Hawke and was a hit at that year’s Midnight Madness in Toronto, before again enjoying a theatrical run again handled by Lionsgate.
Since then the two have found continued success with features such as “Predestination” – once again with Hawke in the leading role,...
- 10/14/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, “Screwball” is getting a domestic release in the spring, Brian Goldsmith re-ups at Lionsgate, horror novel “Snowblind” is in the works as a film, and “Room 13” has been cast.
Acquisition
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to baseball doping documentary “Screwball” and plans a theatrical release to coincide with the start of the Major League Baseball season in April.
The film, directed by Billy Corben (“Cocaine Cowboys”), centers on the Alex Rodriguez/Biogenesis doping scandal, which broke in 2013 when several Mlb players were accused of obtaining performance-enhancing drugs such as human growth hormone from the now-defunct rejuvenation clinic Biogenesis of America.
“Screwball” premiered in September at the Toronto International Film Festival and recently played at DocNYC. Corben and Alfred Spellman produced under their Rakontur banner.
“Billy Corben’s wildly entertaining doc is his latest look at a perverse pursuit of the American Dream,...
Acquisition
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to baseball doping documentary “Screwball” and plans a theatrical release to coincide with the start of the Major League Baseball season in April.
The film, directed by Billy Corben (“Cocaine Cowboys”), centers on the Alex Rodriguez/Biogenesis doping scandal, which broke in 2013 when several Mlb players were accused of obtaining performance-enhancing drugs such as human growth hormone from the now-defunct rejuvenation clinic Biogenesis of America.
“Screwball” premiered in September at the Toronto International Film Festival and recently played at DocNYC. Corben and Alfred Spellman produced under their Rakontur banner.
“Billy Corben’s wildly entertaining doc is his latest look at a perverse pursuit of the American Dream,...
- 11/17/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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