AXN picks up Next Action Star

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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GRB Entertainment has licensed the format for Next Action Star, a
10-episode reality show due to appear on NBC this fall, to Sony Pictures
Entertainment's AXN network.

AXN has also has licensed the movie that will be made with the competition's winners, produced by Joel Silver and titled Hit
Me.

The show's producers are combing the country to find America's next male and
female action stars who will appear in the movie.

AXN, an action and adventure channel, airs internationally in Asia, Brazil,
Israel, Japan, Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.