Left/Right Productions

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Left/Right Productions is a New York-based American television production company that is owned by The North Road Company and formerly part of German entertainment company Red Arrow Studios. It was founded in 2005 by Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman, the company produces fiction and non-fiction entertainment ranging from reality television to documentary programming to scripted sitcoms.

Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryEntertainment
Founded2005
Founders
  • Banks Tarver
  • Ken Druckerman
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Left/Right Productions
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryEntertainment
Founded2005
Founders
  • Banks Tarver
  • Ken Druckerman
Headquarters,
United States
Key people
Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman
ProductsTelevision/Scripted & Unscripted
Parent
Websitewww.leftright.tv
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History

Left/Right Productions was established in 2005 by Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman to produce factual, reality & scripted programming for American networks such as VH1 and in August 2012, German entertainment production studio Red Arrow Entertainment Group (part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media) had taken a majority stake in Left/Right Productions to increase Red Arrow's American production operations with Left/Right Productions became a subsidiary of Red Arrow Entertainment Group while its co-founders Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman continue to operate Left/Right under Red Arrow Entertainment Group.[1]

In late-January 2019, Left/Right Productions had restructured its senior management team as Mary Robertson had assumed the role of senior VP of current production whilst Pete Ross had taken the role of senior VP of development.[2]

In April 2022 three months before Red Arrow Studios sold Left/Right, Left/Right announced they had restructured its executive team as Anneka Jones who was Left/Rights Productions' executive VP president of development & current production since it was established in 2005 had become CCO of Left/Right while she will continue to oversee development and production at Left/Right as it had appointed Esther Dere to become its executive producer of Left/Right as Michael Mezaros had assumed the role of executive VP of postproduction while continue to lead Left/Right's post-production facility & team and became executive producer of Left/Right's documentary film division.[3]

In July 2022 when Peter Chernin established a global independent and production content studio that would bring his film & television production company Chernin Entertainment and its unscripted production studio Words + Pictures entitled The North Road Company and the two subsidiaries became part of his new company as labels, Left/Right Productions' German entertainment & international distribution parent company Red Arrow Studios exited the American television production industry had sold its American entertainment production operations including Left/Right to Peter Chernin's new global studio The North Road Company had brought the US assets of German entertainment & international distribution company Red Arrow Studios from ProSiebenSat.1 Media, including Left/Right Productions, became a subsidiary of Chernin's new global content company, The North Road Company. At the same time, its newly established international division, North Road International (which is based in London, England), had taken over Left/Right's programming catalogue and would distribute Left/Right's future productions.[4][5][6][7]

Television series

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Title Years Network Notes
True Life1998MTV
I Pity the Fool2006TV Land
The Agency2007VH1
The Salt-N-Pepa Show
3AM2015Showtimeco-production with Showtime Networks and Wolf Films
The Internet Ruined My Life2016Syfyco-production with Atomic Entertainment
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth2016–2023Showtimeco-production with Showtime Networks and Bloomberg Politics
First Family of Hip Hop[8]2017Bravoco-production with Bravo Media Productions and Mad Fusion
Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits & Monsters2018TruTV
The New York Times Presents2019–2024FX
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