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Gardner Reed, whose recent credits include Netflix’s King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, has been promoted at Wheelhouse Entertainment. He is now SVP, Development.

EXCLUSIVE: Spoke Studios, the Wheelhouse production company behind series including Netflix’s Buying Beverly Hills, is looking for a new boss after the departure of Pam Healey.

Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse has some new investors.

ACF Investment Bank, which helped with the sale of Pilgrim Studios to Lionsgate and Charlie Brooker’s Broke & Bones to Netflix, has a new majority owner.

McKinley Franklin editor Hulu has ordered a new social experiment competition series “Got to Get Out” from Wheelhouse. The format will showcase participants living in a mansion for 10 days as they vie for a cash prize that increases by $1 each second they’re in the game. As contestants compete in physical and mental challenges, more money will be added to “the pot,” with up to $1 million at stake.

Hulu has ordered Got to Get Out, a competition series from Wheelhouse that was created by Glenn Hugill (Deal or No Deal, The Mole), the president of Wheelhouse’s UK arm.

Ken Goldin is on the hunt for more collectibles.

It’s a wrap for Buying Beverly Hills Season 2 filming. The Netflix occu-series has concluded filming for the second season of the show that follows agents and clients within Mauricio Umansky’s The Agency in Beverly Hills.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Celebrity chef David Chang has signed a production deal with Brent Montgomery and Jimmy Kimmel’s Wheelhouse. Previously under a production agreement with Vox Media, Chang’s banner, Majordomo Media, has set a pact with Wheelhouse, a producer on Chang’s latest Hulu series, “Secret Chef,” to exclusively develop and produce unscripted programming across food, home and lifestyle, among other genres. Wheelhouse and Chang are also focused on creating original content and developing new talent for his new FAST channel, MajordomoTV, co-developed with LG Electronics.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Additive Creative Partners, the digital-focused talent management arm of Brent Montgomery and Jimmy Kimmel’s Wheelhouse DNA, has signed nine top digital content creators as clients, including Lauren Kettering, Legit Tim, YouTube collective TKOR, James Wright and Carrie Berk. Wheelhouse DNA launched last year out of Kimmel and Montgomery’s media company Wheelhouse, as the division focused on digital-first and influencer content. The new talent signed by the company will be repped by Additive Creative managers Michael Senzer and Adden Laughlin. Senzer will continue to run Additive Creative’s day-to-day operations, with Wheelhouse DNA managing director Fanny Baudry will oversee the talent management division.

EXCLUSIVE: Roku has ordered a celebrity cooking show exec produced by Sofia Vergara and hosted by her son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara.

Mauricio Umansky and The Agency are opening the doors for a second season.

EXCLUSIVE: Gary Vaynerchuk, internet marketing expert and Resy founder, has teamed with former CAA agent and Wheelhouse exec Eric Wattenberg and Matt Higgins, who co-founded investment firm RSE Ventures with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen M. Ross, to launch a new production studio.

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Phillippe is throwing himself into the podcast business.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorJennifer Aniston has teamed with Web3 animation studio Invisible Universe to develop a character, Clydeo, inspired by her real-life dog, Clyde.The “Friends” and “Morning Show” star has also participated with a number of other industry boldface names in the $12 million Series A fundraising round for Invisible Universe. The capital campaign for the content banner headed by Tricia Biggio was led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, the private investment firm he co-founded with former Pixar and Reddit executive Katelin Holloway.Invisible Universe is already in business with tennis superstar Serena Williams, who is married to Ohanian.

Courtney White, the former president of Food Network, is partnering with Wheelhouse and CEO Brent Montgomery to create food, home and lifestyle content under the new Butternut hub.

EXCLUSIVE: Portal A, the production company backed by Brent Montgomery and Jimmy Kimmel’s Wheelhouse, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation across all verticals, including scripted, unscripted and podcast projects.

Joe Weinstock, Co-President of Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment label Spoke Studios, has exited to launch a JV with The Masked Singer UK and Netflix’s Hard Cell super-indie Argonon.

EXCLUSIVE: Miami has become the epicenter of the cryptocurrency boom and a new docuseries will follow the bombastic individuals on the frontlines of this digital gold rush.

Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse, actor John Stamos and former ESPN pair Bill Simmons and Connor Schell are among the investors in a $15M funding round for collectibles company Rally.

EXCLUSIVE: Portal A, the production company backed by Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse, has been producing digitally native content for over ten years.

How do you turn the latest crop of social media influencers – many with tens of millions of followers – into traditional television stars? That’s been the question that networks and producers have been asking for years.

Wheelhouse, the company run by Brent Montgomery, the founder of Pawn Stars producer Leftfield, is ramping up its investment division with the hire of Ann Berry.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterWheelhouse, the firm founded by producer Brent Montgomery in partnership with Jimmy Kimmel, has brought on investment and private equity executive Ann Berry as its chief investment officer.

Wheelhouse, the business set up by Brent Montgomery, founder of Pawn Stars producer Leftfield, has launched a division designed to develop content from digital influencers.

Peter White Television EditorKevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud and Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment have inked a co-production deal and have set their first joint project with ride-sharing app Lyft’s fledgling entertainment arm.The two companies are working to develop, produce and distribute a slate of unscripted programming that will showcase new comedy voices and stories.

By Nellie Andreeva

Wheelhouse Group is adding a chief creative officer to its executive ranks, bringing CAA vet Eric Wattenberg aboard.

By Peter White