Cynthia Littleton Business EditorAtlanta-based Gray Television has expanded its investment in indie Swirl Films with a deal designed to provide Swirl with more resources to produce series and made-for-TV movies.Swirl Films, headed by producer Eric Tomosunas, is a prolific supplier of movies to outlets such as BET, Netflix, TV One, Lifetime, Hallmark Channel and Up.
The company has expanded into multi-part series, scripted and unscripted, in recent years with such entries as TV One’s biography series “Uncensored.”The deal with Atlanta-based broadcaster Gray calls for Swirl to work more closely with Gray’s existing Tupelo Honey production banner to help expand the volume and scope of operations for both.
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