Wheelhouse simply discovered a manufacturing firm that’s in it’s, properly, wheelhouse. So it purchased it.
Wheelhouse has acquired Anomaly Entertainment, which was based in 2017 by producers and former Discovery Channel commissioners Matthew Kelly and Michael Sorensen. Anomaly has produced 40 Shark Week exhibits (Shaq Does Shark Week, Nice White Abyss, Jaws Awakens, Legend of Deep Blue, Jackass Shark Week, Shark Journey: Eat, Pray, Chum, and so on.) over the earlier 9 years; along with Discovery, Anomaly has created content material for TLC, ID, HGTV, Meals Community, Netflix, HBO Max, ESPN+ and NFL Movies.
Anomaly is at the moment producing KPop Shark Heroes starring Ken Jeong (Group) and Rei Ami (KPop Demon Hunters). Its non-shark programming contains Rob Riggle: International Investigator, Thriller at Blind Frog Ranch, Caught!, The Guests, Code of the Wild, Battle of the Beards, McEnroe’s Locations and Extraordinary Tales Behind On a regular basis Issues.
“Few folks in our world have had the success that Matt and Mike have on both sides of the aisle, buyers and sellers,” mentioned Wheelhouse CEO Brent Montgomery. “We see not only a nice cultural match, particularly with their broad work with athletes, entertainers and creators, however additionally new muscle tissue dropped at the Wheelhouse ecosystem.
“Anomaly was looking for a partner that could help us scale and grow strategically for the future, and for us to land at Wheelhouse is a full circle moment,” Kelly and Sorensen in a joint assertion. “We’ve known Brent a long time and, for us, not only did he and Wheelhouse recognize the value of the business we’ve created, but they also saw synergy in our vision, which is to produce content that elevates talent, especially today’s leading creators and sports figures, and tell their stories in exciting, authentic ways. We’re thrilled to be part of the Wheelhouse family and eager to expand Anomaly across new platforms, while offering even greater capabilities to our clients and collaborators.”
Throughout their time as patrons and producers at Discovery, Kelly and Sorensen oversaw hit sequence like Gold Rush, Amish Mafia and Skywire Reside with Nik Wallenda. Additionally they oversaw the event of By means of the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, Bering Sea Gold, Killing Fields, Coopers Treasure and Yukon Males.
Anomaly is at the moment in manufacturing on sequence for Discovery, TLC, HGTV and Meals Community, and is in improvement on potential sequence elsewhere.
Wheelhouse and its subsidiary labels have produced Netflix’s Million Greenback Secret, King of Collectibles, Unknown Quantity: The Excessive Faculty Catfish, America’s Sweethearts, A&E’s Duck Dynasty and different sequence.
