Asylum Entertainment

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For other uses, see Asylum (disambiguation).
Asylum Entertainment
Television
Film
Media
Founded 2001; 23 years ago (2001)
Founder Steve Michaels - CEO
Jonathan Koch - CCO
Headquarters Encino, California, United States
Owner Wanda Group
Parent Legendary Television
Website [1]

Asylum Entertainment is a television production company based in Encino, California, United States. It is known for producing reality and scripted television series such as Beyond the Glory and The Kennedys. It was purchased by Legendary Pictures in 2014.[1]

Steve Michaels (son of sportscaster Al Michaels) and Jonathan Koch formed Asylum Entertainment in 2001 when they began producing Beyond the Glory for Fox Sports. The series ran for 5 seasons and was nominated for 10 Emmys.[2] With its success, Asylum went on to produce several other sports programming series such as IN FOCUS, ESPN’s 30 FOR 30, and the Emmy nominated series Fearless. They soon began to expand their programming to include reality beyond sports programming, producing The Locator, Addicted, American Gangster and many more.

In 2011, Asylum crossed over into scripted content with The Kennedys, the highly acclaimed 10-time Emmy nominated[3] eight-part mini-series for ReelzChannel starring Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, Barry Pepper and Tom Wilkinson. After The Kennedys' success, Asylum Entertainment entered into a production deal with ReelzChannel to develop and produce original series for the network,[4] which included The Kennedy Files, Beverly Hills Pawn, Murder in the City of Angels and Hollywood Hillbillies.

The company’s other reality series include Urban Tarzan for Spike TV, Owner's Manual for AMC, Gangsters for Biography, The Lylas for WE tv, Big Fish Texas for National Geographic Channel, Finding My Father for Oxygen and Homegrown Makeover for FYI. In 2014, Asylum partnered with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (Imagine Entertainment) and GE on a signature series for National Geographic Channel entitled Breakthrough. The anthology series, with each hour exploring an innovation in science and made by a different director, debuted in November 2015. Nat Geo has ordered a second season. Asylum is producing another anthology series for the network entitled Origins.[5]

The company has continued to make critically acclaimed scripted content. The film Ring of Fire, starring Jewel as June Carter Cash, debuted on Lifetime TV in May 2013. The four-hour miniseries The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, starring Kelli Garner and Susan Sarandon, aired on Lifetime in May 2015. Both films were nominated for Emmys. Another Lifetime film, Manson’s Lost Girls, aired in February 2016. After Camelot, the four-hour sequel to The Kennedys, starts production in April 2016. Asylum has also made two feature films. A coming-of-age movie starring Christopher Meloni, Small Time, was written and directed by Joel Surnow. The documentary feature Happy Valley, about the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State, was directed by Amir Bar-Lev for A&E Indie Films.

Filmography

Run Type Title Channel Ep. Ref.
2016—present Series Big Fish Texas National Geographic Channel 8 [6]
2016 Series Case Closed with AJ Benza Reelz Channel 8 [7]
2016—present Series Demons in the City of Angels Reelz Channel 8 [8]
2016—present Series Home Grown Makeover FYI 10 [9]
2016—present Series Gangsters: America’s Most Evil Reelz Channel 10 [10]
2016—present Series Master P’s Family Empire Reelz Channel 10 [11]
2016—present Series The Kennedy Files Reelz Channel 10 [12]
2016 TV Movie Manson’s Lost Girls Lifetime [13]
2015—present Series Breakthrough National Geographic Channel 6 [14]
2015—present Series Dr. Feelgood Reelz Channel 8 [15]
2015—present Series Finding My Father Oxygen 8 [16]
2015 Miniseries The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe Lifetime 2 [17]
2014—present Series Hollywood Hillbillies Reelz Channel 31 [18]
2014 Series Treasure King Reelz Channel 8 [19]
2014 Feature Small Time Asylum Films [20]
2014 Series Mansion Hunters Reelz Channel 10 [21]
2014 Documentary Happy Valley A&E Indie Films [22]
2014 Documentary World of Warcraft: Looking for Group YouTube [23]
2014 Series Billy Bob’s Gags to Riches Discovery Channel 7 [24]
2014 Series BAPS Lifetime 4 [25]
2014 Series The Capones Reelz Channel 10 [26]
2013—2014 Series Hollywood Scandals Reelz Channel 20 [27]
2013 Documentary Being: Mike Tyson Fox Sports Net 6 [28]
2013 Series Drugs Made Me Do It Biography Channel 2 [29]
2013 Series How Sex Changed the World H2 10 [30]
2013 Series Urban Tarzan Spike 10 [31]
2013 Series Owner's Manual AMC 8 [32]
2013 TV Movie Ring of Fire Lifetime [33]
2013 Series The Lylas WE tv 8 [34]
2012—present Series 10 Things You Don’t Know H2 26 [35]
2012 Series Bounty Wars Discovery Channel 3 [36]
2012 Miniseries Countdown to the Apocalypse History Channel 6 [37]
2012 Series Natural Born Sellers HGTV 13 [38]
2012 Series RV Kings Travel Channel 3 [39]
2012 Series Travel Unraveled Travel Channel 10 [40]
2011 Series Pawn 90210 Reelz Channel 3 [41]
2011 Series Four of a Kind Lifetime 12 [42]
2011 Miniseries The Kennedys Reelz Channel 8 [43]
2011 TV Movie Secret Access: Super Power History Channel [44]
2010 Series The Peacemaker A&E 5 [45]
2010 Series Addicted TLC 6 [46]
2010 Series Tailgate Takedown TLC 2 [47]
2009—present Series 30 for 30 ESPN 6 [48]
2009 Series Adoption Diaries WE tv 4 [49]
2009 TV Movie Lisa Nichols’ Breakthrough WE tv [50]
2008—2010 Series The Locator WE tv 44 [51]
2007 Series Maui Fever MTV 9 [52]
2006—2007 Series Project My World Channel 101 (DirecTV) 20 [53]
2006 Documentary 30 Most Outrageous Celebrity Feuds E! [54]
2006 Documentary The Chuck Barris Story: My Life on the Edge Game Show Network [55]
2006 TV Movie The Family Makers TLC [56]
2004 Series Love is in the Heir E! 1 [57]
2004—2005 Series Fearless NBC Sports 25 [58]
2001—2005 Series Beyond the Glory Fox Sports Networks 96 [59]

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