Former Verve Head of Unscripted Bill Thompson Joins Vital Artists Agency
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: After four years at Verve, veteran unscripted television agent Bill Thompson has joined Vital Artists Agency, reuniting with former colleague Phil Irven.At Verve, Thompson launched an unscripted division in 2018 and oversaw that area for the agency.
His departure followed the July hire of former ICM agent Andy Stabile as Verve Partner and Head of Unscripted. Thompson met with a couple of companies and went with upstart Vital, which was launched in late 2020 by Rebel Entertainment Partners’ Irven, April Yuan and Cal Boyington.
They were joined by veteran unscripted executive Nicole Zien earlier this year.During his Verve tenure, Thompson built a department that packaged and sold over 100 hours of programming including Pants on Fire (Disney +) American Dreams (Discovery +) and the upcoming USA series Barmageddon with Blake Shelton.
On the talent side, Thompson brokered Leah Remini’s seven-figure People Puzzler game show deal and a the reboot of Kat Von D’s LA Ink.
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