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Fuller planning new company, plus boy band search
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 18 January 2010
Pop and telly guru Simon Fuller has announced he is launching a new entertainment company. He has reached a deal with entertainment giant CKX, which bought Fuller’s 19 Entertainment company in 2005. He will continue to work with CKX and be involved in some of their key TV shows, while also being free to launch his new venture.
Fuller’s recently announced new reality project, ‘If I Can Dream’, which will be based primarily around web-based media, will remain as a 19/CKX production, but with Fuller staying on as the project’s Executive Producer through his newly structured partnership with his former company.
Confirming his new arrangement with CKX, and his planned new venture, Fuller told reporters: “As an entrepreneur I feel I am about to enter my prime years and starting a new entertainment company at this moment fills me with great excitement”.
CKX top man Robert FX Sillerman added: “This new arrangement guarantees that Simon and CKX will be working together for many, many years to come. I’m also delighted that going forward Simon will be free to focus his creative energy on developing new ideas and projects and that CKX has the opportunity to invest in his new business”.
Fuller has also revealed details of another new pop project – he will be teaming up with Perez Hilton to form a new boy band, to be recruited via a telly talent contest to be called ‘Boy Band’. I’m not sure if this venture will be linked to Fuller’s new business venture, the website where wannabe boy banders sign up is operated by a company called Queen & King Productions, LLC.
