Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorGeorge Stephanopoulos is known at ABC News for his turns co-anchoring “Good Morning America” and the Sunday public affairs program “This Week.” As Hollywood’s streaming wars intensify, however, he may soon be recognized for something else.Stephanopoulos will be at the center of a new political documentary series slated to appear on Hulu that will examine the upcoming midterm election along with important races and key issues.
The program is one among many currently in the pipeline at ABC News Studios, a new effort by the Disney-backed news organization to centralize its efforts to produce documentary programming aimed at fueling the fortunes of Disney properties.“We want to leverage our intellectual property that is generated across the news division in service of entertaining narrative storytelling.
That is an absolute priority for us,” says Mike Kelley, vice president and head of ABC News Studios, in an interview. “We know that is the content that has become the most sticky in the SVOD marketplace.” The new unit intends to deliver more than 100 hours of programming across ABC, Hulu, Disney+, National Geographic and other venues in 2022.
ABC News is the latest of the nation’s mainstream TV-news divisions to launch a formal unit devoted to the production of documentary and documentary-based series.
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