EXCLUSIVE: The New York Post is looking to get into the TV game with a first-look unscripted deal with producer Asylum Entertainment Group.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid is looking to adapt its stories into documentary features, limited series and docuseries. The move will see Asylum’s production labels Texas Crew Productions, Audity, and The Content Group (TCG), along with Big City TV and Breaklight Pictures, look for stories to adapt for the small screen.
It marks the latest newspaper group to eye up television projects; the New York Times has a deal for New York Times Presents with FX and Hulu, while The Washington Post recently struck a similar deal with Imagine Entertainment.
It comes after Breaklight Pictures partnered with the paper to turn Post journalist Hannah Frishberg’s in-depth reporting on international megachurch Hillsong into Discovery+’s limited series Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed.
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