ITV America launches crime prodco

ITV America is launching a crime-focused production arm and has hired the executive producer of Cold Justice to oversee it, while also adding an industry veteran from MGM to its ITV Entertainment staff.

Kathryn Vaughan

Good Caper Content will be devoted entirely to crime and investigative programming, with Kathryn Vaughan named as the shingle’s president.

Vaughan, who executive produced TNT and Oxygen series Cold Justice, will build and run the new unit, reporting to ITV America chief creative officer David Eilenberg.

Existing crime content produced by ITV America’s various production labels will move under the Good Caper banner, including new A&E series Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48, produced by ITV Entertainment, and Discovery’s Killing Fields, which is produced by Sirens Media.

Good Caper Content, which gets its name from law enforcement jargon meaning an especially impressive police action, will also create original programming and is currently in development on projects with Dick Wolf, Marcia Clark (via her production deal with ITV America) and others.

The label already has several projects set up with A&E and Oxygen, and deals with other networks and streaming platforms are pending.

Alex Dundas

Sirens Media co-founder and executive producer Valerie Haselton, creative consultant at ITV America, will be a senior advisor to Good Caper Content.

Meanwhile, ITV America’s non-scripted production group ITV Entertainment has hired Alex Dundas as executive VP.

Dundas will also report to Eilenberg when he joins later this summer to lead creative development at the firm, which is behind the successful Queer Eye reboot for Netflix.

He was most recently senior VP of unscripted development and current programming at MGM Television under Mark Burnett and Barry Poznick, helping to develop and oversee series including Steve Harvey’s Funderdrome (ABC), Signed (VH1) and Total Knockout (CBS).

Dundas was previously creative director and president of UK operations for Burnett’s United Artists Media Group, shepherding hits like The Apprentice UK (BBC) and How’d You Get So Rich? (Channel 4). He also served as head of factual for Reef Television.