Ryan Seacrest Scores New Contract With Comcast, On E! Through 2012

Broadcasting & Cable:

Fresh off naming longtime agent Adam Sher to head up Ryan Seacrest Productions, Ryan Seacrest inked an expansive new deal with Comcast Entertainment Group.

The agreement will keep Seacrest on E! Entertainment Television into 2012, and it includes a first-look deal for all of the Comcast networks.

Seacrest will continue to serve as anchor and managing editor of E! News and executive producer and host of E!'s Live from the Red Carpet specials through early 2012.

Comcast Entertainment Group will also get first-look rights to all Ryan Seacrest Productions projects through August 2011, encompassing not just E! and Style, but also G4, Versus, The Golf Channel and the other entertainment-group properties. The previous deal between Seacrest and Comcast only applied to E! and Style.

Seacrest Productions produces Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Denise Richards: It's Complicated for E!, as well as the upcoming Bromance for MTV and Momma's Boy for NBC.

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Comments

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

I think he'd be more at home on the Logo channel......just saying....

[johnnygoodwud]

what show hasn't he been on,,,,,,,,,,,are there any left?

[AmazingChicken]

So pleased this non-news story gummed up my comcast filter....

[susou]

I think for someone his age, he's accomplished so much, and it's incredible how he became so successful with the help of American Idol. You can't help but be proud of him for making the right decisions and becoming this generation's Dick Clark.

Good for him! He deserves all his success!

[wayoutleft]

yes. it's an unrecognized tradition: alan freed, murray the k, dick clark, tom donohue, john peel- now seacrest:- guys who somehow get on the right side of a creative supernova despite the complete unpredictability of such phenomena. they amazingly stay on the right side of all the subsequent waves and trends. there are more local examples of this entrepeneurship around the world too, in addition to these international names.

[marymansour]

He's okay in his innocuous way. With the fripperies he inhabits as host, he can do no harm.

[haleywins]

Why? Talk about your empty suit.