EXCLUSIVE: Following Lionsgate’s acquisition of eOne, Lionsgate Television has moved in to retain the top TV creator on eOne’s roster, Alexi Hawley, signing a premium overall deal with the creator/executive producer of two of eOne’s three ongoing premium scripted series, The Rookie on ABC, starring Nathan Fillion, and The Recruit on Netflix, headlined by Noah Centineo, as well as a hot new drama Lionsgate has out in the marketplace, The Envoy.
Hawley had emerged as the most prolific creator at eOne where he had two back-to-back overall deals, the most recent of which, signed in 2022, carried over to Lionsgate after the merger.
In addition to The Rookie, which is headed to its seventh season, and The Recruit, going into Season 2, he also was behind spinoff The Rookie: Feds, which aired on ABC for one season, a run that was cut short at least in part by the strikes.
Lionsgate TV, which in February cut 70% of the overall and first-look deals across the combined company after the acquisition of eOne, already has Hawley working on a high-profile new project in development, The Envoy, a hostage recovery series based on Adam Ciralsky’s Vanity Fair story about Roger Carstens and his team at the State Department who have brought home 70 American hostages over the last four years.
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