Paramount Global vet David Nevins has been named CEO of Peter Chernin's global content house The North Road Company, just as the company celebrates its first year of business. Formerly chairman and CEO of Paramount Premium Group and chief creative officer of Paramount+ scripted series, Nevins will oversee North Road's portfolio of brands, including scripted film and TV studio Chernin Entertainment, unscripted house Kinetic Content, nonfiction studio Words + Pictures, and a London-based international division. Chernin will continue to act...
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Chernin kept at his typical M&A and investment behavior this year atop prodco The North Road Company, buying a minority stake in Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions and acquiring Turkish film and TV powerhouse Karga Seven Pictures, on the heels of receiving a hefty $150 million from the Qatar government investment fund back in January. In July, Chernin scooped up David Nevins as North Road’s new CEO, just a few months after the longtime Paramount and Showtime exec exited the Bob Bakish-led company before its major leadership shakeup and rebrand of Showtime to Paramount+ With Showtime. In October, Chernin’s prodco set a JFK limited series in development at Netflix from “Killers of the Flower Moon” co-writer Eric Roth. In November, North Road acquired a stake in Two One Five Entertainment, the production company founded by Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots.
