Company type | Division |
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Industry | Production company |
Founded | April 2018 |
Founders | David Greenbaum Matthew Greenfield |
Headquarters | Burbank, California, U.S. |
Parent | Searchlight Pictures |
Searchlight Television, LLC is an American television production company that is a division of Searchlight Pictures, part of The Walt Disney Company. Founded in April 2018, broadening the variety of projects produced under the namesake Searchlight Pictures film banner. It is headed by David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield.[1][2]
Both original material and adaptations of Searchlight's existing film library will be produced for cable, streaming and broadcast television, in the form of documentaries, scripted series, limited series and more. In April 2019, the Hulu streaming service ordered The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried from Searchlight Television and 20th Television.[3] The studio is also developing an adaptation of the City of Ghosts novel with ABC Signature and an adaptation of N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy with Westbrook Studios.[4][5] In October 2021, Hulu ordered a sequel series to the Mel Brooks film History of the World, Part I from Searchlight Television and 20th Television.[6]
Year | Title | Network | Notes | Ref. |
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2022 | The Dropout | Hulu | with Elizabeth Meriwether Pictures, Semi-Formal Productions, and 20th Television | [7] |
2023 | History of the World, Part II | with Good at Bizness, Inc., 23/34, Brooksfilms Limited and 20th Television | [6] | |
The Full Monty | FX on Hulu (U.S) Disney+ (U.K) |
with Little Island Productions, New Wave Films and FX Productions | [8] | |
TBA | Anything Factory | Max | [9] | |
La Máquina | Hulu | with La Corriente del Golfo and 20th Television | [10] | |
Razzlekhan: The Infamous Crocodile of Wall Street | with Vox Media Studios | [11] | ||
Untitled City of Ghosts series | TBA | with ABC Signature | [4] | |
Untitled Inheritance Trilogy series | with Westbrook Studios | [5] |
A subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. | |
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Lists of films | |