Jesse Collins Entertainment has signed a multi-year overall agreement with ViacomCBS Cable Networks.
Under the terms of the agreement, Jesse Collins Entertainment may provide production services for the ViacomCBS cable networks segment — including BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount Network, TV Land and VH1 on the television side. On the theatrical film side, the company also has a first look on JCE’s film development projects which could include Viacom’s film entities such as Paramount Players.
Jesse Collins Entertainment (JCE) is a full-service television and film production company and has played an integral role in producing many of television’s most memorable moments in music entertainment.
Evident of JCE’s decades long relationship with BET, Jesse Collins, founder & CEO of the company, was the executive producer of the critically-acclaimed film, The New Edition Story, a biopic on the boy band that first aired as a 3-part mini-series on BET in January 2017 and posted record ratings for the network and attracted nearly 30 million viewers. Also on the scripted side, Collins executive produced the company’s most recent limited TV series, The Bobby Brown Story. The 2-part mini-series picked up where The New Edition Story left off and chronicled the talented but troubled singer’s exit from the popular ’80s boy band through his solo success and marriage to pop icon Whitney Houston. It debuted on BET in September 2018 as the highest rated non-tentpole program on BET since The New Edition Story aired the previous year. He is currently in pre-production on Uptown, a 3-part original scripted miniseries for BET that will chronicle the story of producer Andre Harrell’s iconic record label, Uptown Records.
The company’s current TV series is American Soul, the story about the struggle to make the dream of Soul Train come true. Set in the early 70’s, filled with music, dance, fashion and glamour, this is the untold story of the launch of the first nationally-syndicated Black music show and what happened when the music stopped. The series ended its first season as the #1 new cable scripted drama for African Americans 18-49 and its second season debuts on BET on May 27, 2020. Previously, Collins was executive producer of BET’s hit TV series Real Husbands of Hollywood starring Kevin Hart that ran for 5 seasons.
On the unscripted side, Collins and JCE have also produced award-winning programming including the BET Awards, BET Honors, UNCF’s An Evening of Stars, ABFF Honors, Soul Train Awards, Love & Happiness: An Obama Farewell, Black Girls Rock!, Sunday Best and the BET Hip Hop Awards. Collins is also a producer for the iconic Grammy Awards and executive producer of VH1 shows Dear Mama and Hip Hop Squares with Ice Cube, CMT’s Nashville Squares, HBO’s Amanda Seales I Be Knowin’ and Netflix’s Def Comedy Jam 25, Leslie Jones: Time Machine and Rhythm & Flow, a music competition show where judges Tip “T.I.” Harris, Cardi B and Chance the Rapper hit the streets to find the next rap superstar. The show will soon begin production on its second season that will air in 2021.
Jesse Collins Entertainment is repped by CAA and Morris Yorn Barnes Levine Krintzman Rubenstein Kohner & Gellman.
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