Connor Schell and Chernin Leisure’s nonfiction banner Phrases + Photos is preparing for its subsequent purple carpet second – the Oscars preshow on Sunday — by way of Full Day Productions, its fledgling stay leisure and unscripted specials manufacturing arm.
Led by veteran govt producer David Chamberlin, Full Day was created in 2021. Whereas Phrases + Photos develops and produces nonfiction content material targeted on varied matters, Full Day is concentrated on creating stay exhibits, leisure specials, and character-based unscripted sequence similar to “The Oscars Crimson Carpet Present” on ABC earlier than the Academy Awards. Final 12 months, Full Day produced a number of stay occasions and specials together with the “ESPY Awards” and ABC’s “A Very Boy Band Vacation” that includes members of iconic boy bands singing Christmas songs. Within the first quarter of 2022, Full Day produced the “NFL Honors,” simulcast on ABC and ESPN Plus, and can produce the ESPYs this summer time.
Chamberlin has a protracted observe file of manufacturing stay occasion exhibits together with “The ESPYs,” “NFL Honors,” “The Savage x Fenty Present,” Disney’s “Magical Vacation Celebration” and Fox’s “New 12 months’s Eve Dwell With Steve Harvey.” He has additionally produced unscripted sequence for platforms together with Disney Plus, Netflix, ESPN Plus, LucasFilm, NBC and HBO. Chamberlin’s documentary credit embrace “The Innocence Information,” “One Day at Disney,” “Mastering the Craft” and “Being Serena.”
“I’m thrilled to launch Full Day Productions with such unimaginable companions in Connor and Chernin Leisure,” says Chamberlin. “We will’t wait to create the following era of stay occasions, specials, and sequence whereas persevering with to evolve the superb exhibits just like the ESPY Awards that we’re proud to be part of.”
Producer and expertise govt Jen Aiello will be a part of the chief group at Full Day. Aiello has been the lead expertise govt on The ESPY Awards and NFL Honors for a number of years, and was answerable for reserving the friends on “Monday Evening Soccer With Peyton and Eli.”
Chernin Leisure is the only investor of Phrases + Photos. In January Schell, a former ESPN content material chief, introduced that Libby Geist would serves because the manufacturing firm’s govt VP and head of documentaries.