The drama is the first scripted project to emerge from the company’s first-look deal at A+E Networks signed earlier this year. OZY Media was set up in 2013 by former CNN and MSNBC anchor Carlos Watson and former Goldman Sachs exec Samir Rao.Meet The Reporter Who Made America Listen To The Children At The Border.
The story is based on reporting from Ginger Thompson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ProPublica reporter and former New York Times Mexico City bureau chief, who broke the story of the conditions of young children at the border, tapes that were played at the White House press briefing and on the floor of Congress and that are thought to have led to President Donald Trump signing an executive order to end child separation policies.
The order comes a month after OZY Media set a pair of projects via its first-look deal. It is developing, in partnership with A+E Networks’ Six West Media, at Lifetime and making one-hour presidential campaign special, “OZY is on the front line of so many stories that need to be told,” said Amy Winter, EVP, Head of Programming, Lifetime, LMN. “This project in particular has perfect synergy with our ‘Ripped From The Headlines’ genre and will greatly resonate with our Lifetime audience.
“We are incredibly excited to be trying something new in the scripted space, and we are so grateful to the terrific folks at Lifetime and A+E, who are the perfect partners to help us bring alive this longstanding dream,” added OZY co-founder and CEO Carlos Watson.
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