Searchlight Television, LLC is the television arm of Searchlight Pictures, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios, a sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company. Founded on April 11, 2018, it seeks to broaden the variety of projects produced under the namesake Searchlight Pictures film banner. It is headed by Matthew Greenfield.
Both original material and adaptations of Searchlight's existing film library will be produced for cable, streaming and broadcast television, in the form of documentaries, scripted series, limited series and more. In April 2019, the Hulu streaming service ordered The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried from Searchlight Television and 20th Television. The studio is also developing an adaptation of the City of Ghosts novel with ABC Signature and an adaptation of N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy with Westbrook Studios. In October 2021, Hulu ordered a sequel series to the Mel Brooks film History of the World, Part I from Searchlight Television and 20th Television.
Filmography Year Title Network Notes 2022 The Dropout Hulu with Elizabeth Meriwether Pictures, Semi-Formal Productions, and 20th Television 2023 History of the World, Part II with Good at Bizness, Inc., 23/34, Brooksfilms Limited and 20th Television The Full Monty FX on Hulu (U.S) Disney+ (U.K) with Little Island Productions, New Wave Films and FX Productions 2024 La Máquina Hulu with La Corriente del Golfo and Nine and a Half Fingers, Inc. 2026 Furious with Composition 8, Elizabeth Meriwether Pictures and 20th TelevisionTBA Anything Factory HBO Max Razzlekhan: The Infamous Crocodile of Wall StreetHulu with Vox Media Studios Untitled City of Ghosts series rowspan="2" with 20th Television Untitled Inheritance Trilogy series with Westbrook Untitled Sundance Institute series Hulu with 51 Entertainment, Truckstop Media, Proximity Media and Loveless and Monroe
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