EXCLUSIVE: Justin Hartley has signed a brand new multi-year first-look cope with twentieth Tv by way of his firm, ChangeUp Productions. The settlement marks an evolution from ChangeUp’s authentic pod cope with the studio, which started in 2019, the identical 12 months he launched the prodco.
Below the brand new deal, Hartley will proceed to develop and produce authentic content material throughout broadcast, cable and streaming through ChangeUp, the place Julianna LaRosa serves as Head of Growth.
“Julianna and I are delighted to increase our collaboration with twentieth. Over the previous six years, the studio has championed our initiatives, ensuing within the unparalleled success of Tracker, the #1 present on tv,” shared Hartley. “ChangeUp is ramping as much as ship a powerful slate of upcoming initiatives, and we’re actually lucky to have such distinctive companions in Eric Schrier, Karey Burke, Carolyn Cassidy, Jane Francis and their excellent groups,” he added.
The deal follows the record-breaking success of Tracker on CBS, which Hartley each stars in and government produces. Since its Tremendous Bowl debut in 2024, the action-drama has reached over 100 million viewers so far and have become the primary new sequence to rank because the #1 sequence on TV since 2000. Each seasons ranked because the most-watched broadcast sequence of the 12 months.
Tracker stars Hartley as Colter Shaw, a lone-wolf survivalist pushed by his previous troubles who makes use of his instincts to seek out the lacking and acquire rewards. Supported by lawyer Reenie, his enterprise handler Velma Bruin (Abby McEnany) and tech professional Bobby Exley (Eric Graise), Colter will cease at nothing to get the job performed. The sequence was created by Ben H. Winters and is predicated on the bestselling novel The By no means Recreation by Jeffery Deaver. Season 3 begins manufacturing this summer time.
Earlier than his work on Tracker, he was a part of the ensemble forged of NBC’s critically acclaimed, award-winning sequence This Is Us reverse Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling Okay. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Jon Ortiz. Hartley performed Kevin Pearson, for which he acquired a number of Critics’ Selection Award nominations for Greatest Supporting Actor in a Drama Collection (2019, 2020, 2021). Moreover, Hartley and his forged members received back-to-back SAG Awards for Excellent Efficiency by an Ensemble in a Drama Collection in 2018 and 2019. On the movie aspect, Hartley starred reverse Insurgent Wilson in the summertime action-comedy, Bride Arduous. He’s repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman, and LaRosa is repped by CAA.
ChangeUp Productions continues to construct out a slate of authentic, character-driven initiatives throughout TV and movie.
