EXCLUSIVE: Maverick TV, the All3Media-backed production company behind series such as Netflix’s American Barbeque Showdown, is adding a new reality series to its roster and a new head of development.The company is developing a new docuseries with five-time NBA champion and former LA Laker Derek Fisher.It has also hired Helga Eike as Head of Development.
Eike joins from Westbrook’s Red Table Talk Productions and she was also previously President of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo producer Authentic Entertainment.The Derek Fisher project will follow the basketball star and his wife, reality TV veteran, Gloria Govan, who previously starred on the Basketball Wives franchise, as well as their extended family.
It will look at the drama of co-parenting in the public eye, high-profile exes and demanding teenagers as Fisher, who retired in 2014 before becoming head coach of the New York Knicks until 2016, is looking at life outside of basketball.Filming is currently underway, and a pilot presentation will be taken out to networks in the coming weeks.Eike was President of Red Table Talk, part of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook that produces its eponymous Facebook Watch series.
She joined in October 2020, having previously run Banijay-owned Authentic, which was also behind series such as Toddlers & Tiaras.The hire is part of the move by Simon Knight, CEO, Maverick TV USA, who moved from the UK to oversee the U.S.
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