George Clooney and his longtime producing partner Grant Heslov are now back in the television world. Their Smokehouse Pictures, which produced Ben Affleck’s Oscar winning Argo, have signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures Television.
As part of the deal, Smokehouse will develop comedies and dramas for Sony for digital and broadcast platforms, the Hollywood Reporter confirmed. The first project under the deal has not been announced.
Smokehouse is one of the most successful production shingles at the moment, having won the Best Picture Oscar for Argo in 2013. Deadline notes that the shingle also produced August: Osage County, as well as Clooney’s Leatherheads and The Ides of March. Sony and Smokehouse also teamed up for The Monuments Men earlier this year.
The company was founded in 2006. It previously had a deal with Warner Bros. TV, producing the TNT series Memphis Beat. In addition to that show, Heslov has executive produced Unscripted and K Street.
As an actor, Clooney got his start on television, starring in ER before his movie career took off. He is set to work with the Coen Brothers again on Hail, Caesar!.
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