Skye
Far more than a typical weather site, SKYE offers jaw-dropping photos, must-see videos and compelling features about your weather, your life and the world. The forecast: totally addicting.
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Mom.me
Mom.me offers advice, inspiration—and a sanity break—for moms at every step along the journey of motherhood.
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Mandatory
With everything from women, celebs, viral videos and must-read features, Mandatory.com is the one-stop shop for everything guys love. Welcome to your Internet man cave.
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Polyamory
Polyamory: Married and Dating dives deep into the alternative world of Polyamorous relationships, in which happily married couples also have deep, loving committed relationships with people outside of their marriages.
Learn more at Sho.com
Greetings From Home
"Greetings From Home" is a family comedy about the trials and tribulations of a military family with dad raising two unruly teens while mom is deployed overseas.
Watch Greetings From Home
TASTED
TASTED is a fresh new channel that targets foodies, gourmands, and amateurs alike. Offering more than just recipes and tips, Tasted explores bold new flavors, introduces four-star chefs, and examines the art – and fun – of cooking. Follow us from farm to plate with TASTED!
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3V
Join the 3V community for kick-ass workouts, tips from pro trainers, and real answers to your health questions. Your body will thank you.
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Infamous
Thriller-soap in which a female detective returns undercover to the wealthy family she grew up in – as the maid's daughter – to solve the murder of the notorious heiress who was once her closest friend.
Learn more at NBC
Alphas
Tune into Syfy on July 23rd at 10:00pm for the second season of Alphas, a show that explores ordinary people turned super heroes from the mind of X-Men: The Last Stand and The Incredible Hulk writer Zak Penn and starring acclaimed actor and Academy Award nominee David Strathairn
Learn more at Syfy
Junk Gypsies
In this HGTV series we follow sisters Amie and Jolie Sikes as they scour the Texas landscape for the most unique, salvageable junk that they can find. Their talent turns that junk into "gypsified" treasure for their design clients.
Learn more at HGTV
Rewind
REWIND revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack.
Brad Meltzer's Decoded
Best selling author Brad Meltzer and his hand picked team of researchers set out to investigate the secret history of some of America's enduring mysteries of the past.
Learn more at The History Channel
PawNation
PawNation is a place where pets speak the international language of cute! From alpacas to zebras, we have adorable animal photos and videos, plus expert columnists who inform and entertain.
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Wonderwall Latino
The most comprehensive and interactive site for celebrity news and gossip by MSN Latino and BermanBraun.
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Unchained Reaction
Jamie and Adam serve as judges on this series, which pits two teams of varying backgrounds – artists, rocket scientists, animatronic specialists, engineers and even your average Joes – against each other to build an elaborate chain reaction contraption.
Learn more at The Discovery Channel
Jamie and Adam: Tested
'Tested' covers anything that's awesome, ranging from breakthroughs in science, and discoveries in nature to emerging technologies and new consumer products. Tested is the place where those topics are explored in depth, asking the hows and the whys about the things that excite us the most.
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Glo
Combining the imagery and feel of a magazine with the appeal of a dynamic site, Glo offers an online destination that is neither traditional Web nor print, but a unique escape for women.
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Rentaghost
Based on the classic BBC comedy series. Recently deceased Fred Mumford (played by Ben Stiller) is determined to be more productive as a corpse than he was during his life as a slacker, so he starts up a temp agency for the dead.
Learn more at Variety
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
A romantic comedy based on the best-selling book series Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.
Company Information
BermanBraun is an independent media company with three divisions—television, feature film and digital—which create and exploit entertainment content and advertising solutions across all platforms throughout the world. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company, founded by principals Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun in 2007, has established strategic global alliances with a number of media companies throughout the industry, including NBC Universal Television and Microsoft.
BermanBraun's digital division has created and operates some of the most popular properties online. They include the celebrity news site WONDERWALL, which BermanBraun launched in partnership with Microsoft in February 2009. The site is the primary celebrity destination on the MSN network, and currently ranks FIRST in engagement among all competitive sites in entertainment news. The site has exceeded 10 billion page views since its launch and averages nearly 14 million unique users per month. In April 2010, BermanBraun launched GLO, a site created in partnership with MSN and Hachette Filipacchi Media. GLO features an innovative design that creates a unique "digital magazine" experience for women seeking style, beauty and lifestyle content. GLO currently ranks FIRST in engagement among competitive sites in its lifestyle categories.
In August 2010, BermanBraun announced a multi-year partnership with Starcom MediaVest to create new and compelling world-class digital content and advertising solutions available "first" to SMG clients. SMG is part of Publicis Groupe, the world's third-largest communications group.
In scripted television, BermanBraun is currently producing ALPHAS on the Syfy network. Also in production is the second season of the unscripted series BRAD MELTZER'S DECODED for History Channel, and three new series to be produced with MythBusters stars Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage for Discovery Channel. BermanBraun also produces SWORDS, now in its third season for Discovery Channel.
Partner Bios
Gail Berman
Gail Berman is co-owner and founding partner of BermanBraun. Prior to BermanBraun, Berman was the first and only female executive to hold the top posts at both a major film studio and television network.
Berman became President of Paramount Pictures in 2005 and was responsible for the studio’s annual slate of films, including the acquisition of literary properties, development, budgeting, casting, and the production of motion pictures for Paramount Pictures, MTV Films, and Nick Movies.
Before joining Paramount, Berman served from 2000 to 2005 as President of Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company, where she held the top Fox programming post. At Fox, Berman was in charge of all program development and scheduling, as well as marketing, business affairs, and promotions. Berman took the network to number one, creating such hits as American Idol, 24, House, Arrested Development, Bones, and Family Guy.
Prior to her Fox presidency, Berman served as founding President of Regency Television, the TV studio created in 1998 as a co-venture between Fox Television Studios and New Regency Productions. Under Berman, Regency Television quickly grew into one of the most prolific and respected suppliers of TV entertainment programming, including the primetime hit Malcolm in the Middle, which she developed for Fox.
Berman also served as Executive Producer on both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel. The series are frequently recognized as two of television’s most successful young adult entertainment franchises.
Before assuming the Regency presidency, Berman served as President and CEO of production company Sandollar Television. While there, she had both creative and bottom-line responsibility for all program development and production. During her six years with Sandollar, Berman also served as Executive Producer on the primetime series All American Girl starring Margaret Cho.
Berman began her career as a theater producer after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in theater from the University of Maryland. At 23, she co-produced her first show, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. That show was moved to Broadway and as the original Broadway production, went on to garner seven Tony Award nominations. Berman’s other Broadway productions include Hurlyburly by David Rabe (1984), Athol Fugard’s Blood Knot (1985), and The Nerd by Larry Shue (1987), all of which received Tony Award nominations.
In 2003, Berman was named to FORTUNE Magazine’s list of 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business (#25). That same year, she received the coveted Lucy award, recognizing women who have revolutionized the television industry from Women in Film. In 2004, she was named to FORBES Magazine’s list of 100 Most Powerful Women in the World (#49), reappeared on the FORTUNE list (#25), and received the inaugural Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award from the National Association of Television Production Executives (NATPE). Berman was also awarded Executive of the Year (2004) by the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers and Directors in January 2005. In 2006, Berman became a Paley Center for Media She Made It honoree. Berman is a Member of the University of Maryland Board of Trustees, and in January of 2012, she was appointed a Member of the Board of Governor’s Executive Committee of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Lloyd Braun
Lloyd Braun is co-owner and founding partner of BermanBraun.
Prior to BermanBraun, Braun served as head of the Yahoo! Media Group (YMG) from November 2004 through December 2006. As head of YMG, Braun oversaw all creative and business aspects of Yahoo!'s media properties, including all news, finance, sports, entertainment, games and lifestyle sites.
Prior to joining Yahoo, Braun served as Chairman of ABC Entertainment Television Group from January 2002 until April 2004. He served as Co-Chairman of the division from July 1999 thru December 2001. In this position, Braun had responsibility for all creative, programming and business areas of the division, which encompassed Touchstone Television and ABC Entertainment. During his tenure with the ABC Entertainment Television Group, Braun initiated and oversaw the development of such successful programs as Lost, Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Alias, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and The Bachelor.
Before overseeing the consolidation of Buena Vista Television Productions (BVTP) and ABC's Primetime Division into ABC Entertainment Television Group, Braun served as Chairman of BVTP from April 1998 to July 1999, and was responsible for the Walt Disney Network Television divisions, including Touchstone Television.
Prior to 1998, Braun served as President of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, where he oversaw the company's television, management and motion pictures divisions. While at Brillstein-Grey, Braun initiated and oversaw the development of such successful programs as Just Shoot Me, NewsRadio and The Sopranos.
Braun practiced transactional entertainment law from 1984 until 1994 at the law firms of Silverberg, Rosen, Leon & Behr (1984-1989), and Silverberg, Katz, Thompson & Braun (1989-1994). Braun’s clients included Larry David, David Chase, Cher, Steve Levitan and Joss Whedon.
Braun is a graduate of Vassar College (BA 1980) and Hastings College of the Law (JD 1983). Braun served on the Board of Trustees of Vassar College from 2002 to 2010. Braun and his wife Lauren have 4 children.
News
- Oct 2, 2012 BloombergHollywood meets tech at BermanBraun
Jon Erlichman goes behind the scenes at BermanBraun.
Learn more at Bloomberg - Sep 25, 2012 Deadline HollywoodVuguru and BermanBraun are partnering on the comedy web series "Greetings From Home" that launches on AOL.
The 12-episode series from Vuguru and BermanBraun is a humorous look at a military dad who's raising two unruly teens while mom is deployed overseas.
Read more at Deadline.com - Aug 24, 2012 Today on MSNBCMom.me makes an appearance on the Today Show!
Anne-Marie O'Neill of mom.me reveals the truth behind "mommy myths."
View at MSNBC - Jul 12, 2012 Market WatchRodale Inc. and BermanBraun Launch "Tasted" Food Channel on YouTube
Rodale Inc., and BermanBraun, announced the launch of their second YouTube channel, Tasted, featuring fresh, fun and informative programming on all things food.
Read more at Market Watch - Jun 27, 2012 The Futon CriticShowtime presents "Polyamory: Married and Dating" on July 12th at 11pm Et/PT
The new Showtime docu-series, "Polyamory: Married and Dating", exploring alternative relationship structures, premieres on Thursday, July 12th at 11 PM ET/PT
Read more at The Futon Critic - Jun 22, 2012 DeadlineTop Commercials Helmer Bryan Buckley Makes Feature Debut On "Men Are From Mars, Woman Are From Venus"
Bryan Buckley will make his feature directorial debut on the Reese Witherspoon vehicle Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus at Lionsgate Summit
Read more at Deadline - Jun 20, 2012 Virtual StrategyAOL and BermanBraun launch "Skye on AOL"
AOL, a premier digital media company, and BermanBraun, a well-known and creative innovator, announced the launch of "Skye on AOL", a visually impactful site that brings a new identity to weather on the Web, and appeals to weather fanatics and temperature seekers alike
Read more at Virtual Strategy - May 22, 2012 DeadlineBermanBraun Hires Chris Cowan As Head Of Unscripted Television
Chris Cowan, a former principal of Rocket Science Laboratories and Angel City Factory, has joined BermanBraun as head of unscripted television.
Read more at Deadline - May 10, 2012 VarietyNBC Orders Two Dramas
"Infamous," which was known as "Notorious" during development season, is an opulent soap in which a female detective returns undercover to the wealthy family she grew up in to solve the murder of the heiress who was once her closest friend.
Read more at Variety - Apr 19, 2012 Market Watch Rodale Inc. and BermanBraun Launch Premium Lifestyle Channel on YouTube
Rodale Inc. and BermanBraun today announce the launch of a YouTube channel featuring original fitness and healthy living video programming entitled "3V."
Read more at Market Watch - Apr 12, 2012 Market WatchAOL and BermanBraun Relaunch Pet Site PawNation
BermanBraun and AOL relaunch PawNation, a top-ranked website that provides animal lovers with the latest pet lifestyle, nutrition, training, behavior and grooming news.
Read more at Market Watch - Mar 29, 2012 Market WatchAOL and BermanBraun Partner to Bring Back the Man's Man
Today AOL, a premier digital media company, and BermanBraun, a well-known and creative innovator, launched Mandatory.com, an authentic, relevant and irreverent online destination for men.
Read more at Market Watch - Mar 15, 2012 All Things DBermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie’s Whiskey Media
In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production company BermanBraun.
Read more at All Things D - Feb 14, 2012 THRNBC Orders 'Notorious' to Pilot
The network has picked up to pilot 'Notorious', a Revenge-like soap about a female detective.
Read more at THR
- Jan 30, 2012 DeadlineCBS Greenlights Comedy From Louis C.K., Spike Feresten
CBS has given a pilot order to an untitled multi-camera comedy written by Louis CK and Spike Feresten. The show centers around an ensemble of young people trying to achieve their creative dreams in these tough financial times
Read more at Deadline - Jan 20, 2012 TV by the Numbers'Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman & Adam Savage To Exec. Produce New Discovery Channel Series, 'Unchained Reaction'
Discovery Channel announces 'Unchained Reaction', a new series executive produced by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of 'Mythbusters'. The duo also serve as judges for the six-part series, which pits two teams of varying backgrounds against each other to build an elaborate chain reaction contraption.
Read more at TV by the Numbers - Jan 18, 2012 TV by the Numbers'Syfy' Greenlights Two-Hour Pilot For Time Travel Action Thriller 'Rewind'
Syfy has given a two-hour pilot greenlight to the action thriller Rewind from BermanBraun and Universal Cable Productions, it was announced today by Mark Stern, President of Original Content, Syfy and Co-Head of Original Content for Universal Cable Productions.
Read more at TV by the Numbers - Jan 11, 2012 THRTHR's 2012 Digital Power 50: Content TitansRead more at THR
- Oct 3, 2011 The Next WebGoogle reportedly dishes $100M for new and original YouTube content
BermanBraun partners with YouTube to develop high-quality content for their free online channels.
Read more at The Next Web - May 2, 2011 VarietyBermanBraun in digital push
BermanBraun's digital division is expanding aggressively into original video content for the Web, starting with a "Daily Show"-esque news roundup series that bows today on the company's popular Wonderwall celeb news website.
Read more at Variety - Jan 6, 2011 The New York TimesA Man With a Cape and a City to Salvage
Palm City, the fictional metropolis at the center of “The Cape,” is similarly blighted, but you would never know it from the panoramic shots supplied. The skies are sunny; the tall buildings gleam against the waterfront. There is a culture of food bloggers. You are in San Diego, you say to yourself, or Vancouver, or Orlando relocated to a coast.
Read more at The New York Times - Dec 8, 2010 Deadline.comRussell Brand Haunts 'Rentaghost' Remake
Warner Bros has acquired the rights to the British comedy show RentaGhost and will develop it into a Beetlejuice-style afterlife feature comedy vehicle for Russell Brand.
Read more at Deadline.com - Oct 29, 2010 ForbesNames You Need to Know in 2011
Enter BermanBraun , a three-year-old Los Angeles production company founded by Hollywood heavyweights Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun that has bucked the trend.
Read more at Forbes - Oct 16, 2010 All Things DWonderwall Goes Latino
In an interesting brand extension, the popular celebrity and entertainment site Wonderwall has launched a version aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market called Wonderwall Latino
Read more at All Things D - Oct 6, 2010 The WrapMSNBC and BermanBraun Launch Blog on 'The Celebrity Side of Politics'
BermanBraun and MSNBC announced Wednesday morning that they are teaming up for a new site called BLTWY that will focus on the "celebrity side of politics." In other words, coverage of sex scandals, Washington fashion and plenty of Palins.
Read more at The Wrap - Aug 17, 2010 The New York TimesBermanBraun and Starcom
A four-year deal, which Starcom MediaVest and the production company behind the sites, BermanBraun, plan to announce on Wednesday, opens the door for substantial spending on advertising for new types of digital entertainment
Read more at The New York Times - Aug 5, 2010 The Futon CriticSyfy Gives Greenlight to 'Alphas' Pilot From BermanBraun
Syfy has ordered the action-adventure 90-minute pilot, Alphas (working title) from writers Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand, Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk) and Michael Karnow.. Alphas is executive produced by Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun for BermanBraun
Read more at The Futon Critic
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