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The Biggest Loser creator Dave Broome is getting into a new ring.
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Broome and his 25/7 Productions banner is teaming with Jeff Jarrett's new venture Global Force Wrestling to executive produce new matches as well as unscripted programming, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Jarrett founded TNA Wrestling, which has aired on Spike TV for years. He's a third-generation wrestling promoter and an executive producer who has produced shows for Fox Sports, Spike and Endemol. He and his wife, Karen, have been laying the foundation for GFW since January, when their efforts -- along with country singer Toby Keith -- to buy TNA fizzled. (It's unclear what involvement, if any, Keith will have with the new league.)

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The new Global Force Wrestling league, which already has more than 500 performers with additional announcements planned as more deals are finalized, will see Jarrett again bring wrestling to the small screen. Jarrett is considered to be wrestling's second-most-well-known promoter behind Vince McMahon.

GFW will compete with WWE and TNA, with Jarrett and Broome currently shopping TV rights to matches -- which will air both live and live-to-tape -- as well as unscripted fare. So far, Broome tells THR, interest has been high from both major broadcast and cable networks for the new league. The duo is currently meeting with network executives on both the East and West Coast as they shop the league and its likely lucrative TV rights.

"Wrestling pulls in massive numbers, has a huge fan base and networks are realizing that it's great entertainment," he tells THR.

Broome said the plan is to have new GFW content on the air 52 weeks per year as the upstart league looks to compete with more well-known TNA and WWE. The producer behind such live events including NBC's Tsunami AID: A Concert of Hope says GFW will cater to a worldwide audience and feature both well-known wrestlers as well as the best up-and-comers from all over the world.

Broome's deal -- which was set in motion before his overall pact with Sony Pictures Television -- will include live events, unscripted and reality fare.

"It just won't be a bunch of wrestling matches; we have exciting announcements to come. TNA or WWE right now is match after match after match. Global Force Wrestling is not going to do that. There will be matches but there will be a lot more and a lot more variety placed into the actual events that will be really innovative and fresh," he says.

"We're excited to enter this journey with a group as talented as Dave Broome and 25/7," Jarrett says. "They've achieved some great things over the past decade and we feel like they can lend a unique perspective both in and out of the ring."

In addition to The Biggest Loser, which is now in its 15th season on NBC and is broadcast in more than 90 countries around the world, Broome's credits include digital series for AOL and a sports documentary for Netflix.

For more information on GFW, check out their website.

Email: Lesley.Goldberg@THR.com
Twitter: @Snoodit

Stallion Cabana posted:

I want to #JOINTHEFORCE

where do I sign up.

Mr. Carlisle posted:

masato tatanka posted:

somethin BIG is coming this way

Jerusalem posted:

Oh my God please continue the letter

Commissar Ken posted:

The hole should have JUST been his face.

Grant DaNasty posted:

coconono posted:

I wonder many people have tweeted that to them.

Stallion Cabana posted:

Coconono has to have so there's the one.

Grant DaNasty posted:

Jerusalem posted:

This is disgusting and revolting MRT

You need to make it so the bottomless dude with the huge dick and Fabulous balls is wearing a tux on his upper body

SylvainMustach posted:

the Hindenburg disaster immediately came to mind.

The Cosby Mysteries posted:

CopywrightMMXI posted:

There's a photoshop of clouds out there where the clouds look like goatse. Can someone do a Global force version of that and then get Jarrett to tweet it?

Mr. Carlisle posted:

Who knew the company that does zero promotion outside of the occasional spike tv commercial that almost feels like a time filler accident and is known for making terrible twitter decisions even had a P.R. person

Great White Hope posted:

Well if that's the prize for not tweeting, what's the super prize for actually tweeting?

Bard Maddox posted:

Guess who just bought a ticket to an exclusive meet and greet with GLOBAL FORCE WRESTLING SUPERSTARS Jeff and Karen Jarrett?

It also entitles me to one free personalized 8x10 which I will have them sign with #JoinTheForce, naturally.



I don't know if the wrestling tryouts are for GFW but it's funnier that way.

ZenVulgarity posted:

This is a ponzi scheme or something right

triplexpac posted:

I just realized that Jeff Jarrett went through all the TNA bullshit, has seen how it goes, and thought "Hell yes, lets do all that again!!"

rovert posted:

There's a lot to be gained from listening to the actual interview he was talking really fast and slick.

rovert posted:

There's a lot to be gained from listening to the actual interview he was talking really fast and slick.