LA prodco Anchor Leisure bolsters inventive staff

LA-based prodco Anchor Leisure has appointed Keayr Braxton as SVP of present manufacturing, whereas additionally selling Sam DeVaney to supervisor of improvement, and hiring Dan Baglio as SVP of improvement.

DeVaney will report back to Baglio, whereas each Braxton and Baglio each will report on to firm founder and CEO Ethan Goldman.

In her new position, Braxton is answerable for managing Anchor’s manufacturing slate of collection and documentaries, which incorporates initiatives for MSNBC, AMC and Discovery+.

Braxton beforehand served as showrunner on the primary two seasons of docuseries The Misplaced Kitchen for Magnolia/Discovery+ and the not too long ago launched Mannequin America for MSNBC. Her different credit embody 60 Days In for A&E, Home Of DVF for E!, The Nice Vacation Baking Present for ABC and Launched for OWN.

Baglio, in the meantime, will develop and produce unique collection and have documentaries for streamers and cable networks. He joins from Pulse Movies, the place he served as SVP of unique programming and improvement, engaged on collection and options for VICE, together with Vice Versa: Faculty $ports, Inc, Betraying the Badge, and Too Quickly: Comedy After 9/11.

Previous to that, Baglio spent a number of years at Herzog & Firm as VP of unique programming and improvement, engaged on collection and specials resembling The Historical past of Comedy for CNN, Faculty Soccer 150: The American Sport for ESPN and Soiled John: The Soiled Reality for Oxygen.

DeVaney joined Anchor final yr, engaged on initiatives together with HBO Max’s two-part docuseries Undercurrent: The Disappearance Of Kim Wall. Beforehand, she labored at Vital Content material and at WarnerMedia’s former cult-comedy platform Tremendous Deluxe, the place she developed and produced day by day livestreams with up-and-coming comedic expertise.

Previously housed inside Anchor Worldwide, Anchor Leisure not too long ago launched independently below the path of producer Ethan Goldman. Its slate consists of home-design collection Capturing Dwelling for Magnolia, the four-part collection Mannequin America for MSNBC/Peacock, Look into My Eyes for AMC and Historical past’s Best Heists with Pierce Brosnan for Historical past.

Anchor can also be in manufacturing on a number of initiatives together with the third season of The Misplaced Kitchen for Magnolia and an untitled documentary that revisits the profession of journalist Dan Quite.

“Keayr and Dan are each achieved storytellers whose ardour for his or her craft is central to our continued progress inside the premium area, and Sam has confirmed herself to be a gifted improvement government in her personal proper,” mentioned Goldman. “With this dynamic staff in place, we’re setting ourselves up for even better success as we head into the corporate’s subsequent chapter.”