EXCLUSIVE: Good Walk Entertainment, the production company founded by former top Comedy Central executives Kent Alterman and Sarah Babineau, has signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television.
Under the pact, the duo will develop and produce scripted comedy and drama series for the indie studio, starting with three projects that are already in the works: comedies with writer Jessi Klein, who is under a Sony TV overall deal, and writer Aadrita Mukerji, as well as a drama with director Jonathan Krisel.
Alterman spent two decades at Comedy Central over two stints, rising to President. He departed in November 2019, in the wake of the CBS-Viacom merger. Babineau, one of his top lieutenants who served as co-head of original content at the network and briefly as Head of Comedy Central Content & Creative Enterprises following Alterman’s exit, left at the end of 2020 after six years.
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