Jesse Collins Entertainment Signs With CAA

Denise Petski
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EXCLUSIVE: Producer Jesse Collins’ Emmy-winning eponymous Jesse Collins Entertainment has signed with CAA for representation.

Founded in 2012 by Collins, JCE is probably best known for producing awards shows and specials and will next produce the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards. It has previously produced The American Music Awards, BET Awards, Soul Train Awards, BET Hip Hop Awards, Black Girls Rock!, BET Honors, UNCF’s An Evening of Stars and ABFF Honors, and specials including The Super Bowl Halftime Show, The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama & Oprah Winfrey, A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip Hop, Lil Rel Howery: I said it. Y’all thinking it., CNN’s Juneteenth: A Global Celebration of Freedom, Martin: The Reunion, John Lewis: Celebrating A Hero, Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration, Change Together: From The March On Washington To Today, A Grammy Salute to the Sounds of Change, Stand Up for Heroes, Dear Mama, Amanda Seales: I Be Knowin’, Def Comedy Jam 25, Leslie Jones: Time Machine, The All-Star Nickmas Spectacular and Rip the Runway.

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From its unscripted division it has produced competition/game shows Celebrity Squares, Becoming A Popstar, Rhythm + Flow, Sunday Best, Hip Hop Squares and Nashville Squares, talk shows Yara Shahidi’s Day Off and Face to Face with Becky G and children’s series Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices and unscripted series Oh Hell No! With Marlon Wayans, Cardi Tries, My Killer Body with K. Michelle, DJ Cassidy’s Pass the Mic and Forward: The Future of Black Music and Gabrielle Union: My Journey to 50.

Its scripted series include Real Husbands of Hollywood, American Soul and miniseries The New Edition Story and The Bobby Brown Story.

JCE founder and Chief Executive Officer Collins and Dionne Harmon (President) are the executive producers of all JCE programming and produced the 2023 Golden Globes.  Collins is also an executive producer for the annual Grammy Awards and produced the 2020 Oscars.

Jesse Collins Entertainment has a multi-year, non-exclusive overall deal with Paramount Global and continues to be represented by Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman and The Collins Jackson Agency.

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