Ari Emmanuel’s Growing MSNBC Stable…
Page Six writes that Lawrence O’Donnell has changed agents and has joined Ari Emmanuel’s WME…
Lawrence O’Donnell has jumped ship from CAA to rival WME after being won over by talent honcho Ari Emanuel. The MSNBC anchor, who exec-produced “The West Wing,” told us, “Ari presented me with a way of handling all of my various activities that seemed the most coherent . . . from television-writing to screenwriting to MSNBC and books and other possible ventures. The MSNBC show is now at a point . . . that I can more seriously focus on other things I should be doing as well.” O’Donnell is creating an HBO sitcom he once said was about “rich people in New York in the age of Madoff.”
The joke running around NBC used to be that you couldn’t get anywhere unless you were represented by N.S. Bienstock. But those days, if they ever existed, may be ending. Remember just a few weeks ago there were stories that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were talking to Emmanuel. Now O’Donnell is with Emmanuel.
