EXCLUSIVE: Keshet Studios, the U.S. division of the Israeli media company behind scripted series including NBC’s La Brea, is moving into unscripted.
The company has hired Banijay Studios North America executives Rebecca Mayer and Benjamin Long to lead this push. Mayer joins as EVP of Unscripted and Benjamin Long as VP of Unscripted.
They are tasked with expanding the company’s unscripted footprint in the States and mining Keshet International’s catalog of international IP as well as creating new projects.
On the non-scripted side, Keshet was responsible for ABC’s Rising Star, which quickly clocked up a slew of international format deals back in 2014, as well as game show Boom!
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