Lloyd Braun

Co-owner
BermanBraun

Braun is co-owner, with Gail Berman, of the Santa Monica, Calif.-based media company BermanBraun. Founded in 2007, BermanBraun has three divisions–television, digital media and feature film. It has strategic alliances with NBC and Microsoft to create and distribute creative content for television and digital platforms. That includes MSN's Wonderwall, a celebrity site, as well as women's lifestyle destination Glo. On NBC, BermanBraun's "The Cape," just got picked up for the 2010/2011 television season. It also is making "Decoded" for the History Channel for this fall, as well as three new series to be produced with "Mythbusters" stars Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage for Discovery Channel. BermanBraun also makes "Swords for the Discovery Channel and "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" for MTV. Prior to BermanBraun, Braun served as head of the Yahoo! Media Group and, before that, was chairman of the ABC Entertainment Television Group. During his tenure with the ABC, Braun initiated and oversaw the development of such successful programs as "Alias," "Lost," "Desperate Housewives," "Grey's Anatomy," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and "The Bachelor." And, yes, Larry David named the crazy Lloyd Braun character in "Seinfeld" after Braun, who was once David's lawyer.

Posts With Lloyd Braun

Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie’s Whiskey Media

Kara Swisher in Media on March 15 at 9:30 am PT

Can’t we all just get along? Yes! Hollywood grabs a piece of Silicon Valley content tech.

BermanBraun to Launch Three Non-HuffPost Sites — Including Weather — for AOL

Kara Swisher in Media on December 15, 2011 at 8:27 am PT

In a rare partnership, Arianna Huffington makes way for some fancy Hollywood online content producers.

Viral Video: BermanBraun Doesn't Just Make Web Sites ("The Cape" on NBC Debuts Soon)

Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

Here is a teaser trailer for a midseason replacement television show on NBC called “The Cape.” It’s from Hollywood multimedia production company BermanBraun, which is known in tech for the handsome content sites it makes for Microsoft’s MSN, such as the celebrity-focused Wonderwall. “The Cape” is about a good cop who is framed and has to turn himself into a crime-fighting hero to regain his old life and family. With a cape, natch.

The Top 10 List for New Yahoo U.S. Head Ross Levinsohn–the BoomTown Rules

Kara Swisher in News on October 28, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Dear Ross: Perhaps more than anyone, BoomTown is thrilled to have you back in the Internet ops game, after several years on the sidelines. Besides introducing an exciting new character and plotline into the daily digital drama set in Sunnyvale, Calif.–kind of like when one of Alexis Carrington's ex-husbands returned after a bout with amnesia on "Dynasty"–it's clear you are not going to be a shrinking violet.

First Ben Silverman Online Program–"Ready, Set, Dance!"–Debuts on Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2010 at 7:31 pm PT

Yahoo and Electus, the multiplatform content studio headed by former NBC entertainment head Ben Silverman, debuted its first original, branded entertainment programming tonight with “Ready, Set, Dance!” The site, which is now live on Yahoo Music and sponsored by State Farm, merges the candid-camera phenomenon with reality television and “aims to tap into the pop culture interest in television dance shows and dance videos on the Web….” The site is relatively spare right now, with only one episode, titled “Magic Sparkle Chunk and Frisky Ris.”

Exclusive: BermanBraun Strikes Big Ad Deal with Starcom

Kara Swisher in News on August 17, 2010 at 5:57 pm PT

In an interesting move for premium online content, Hollywood’s BermanBraun has signed an advertising deal with Starcom MediaVest Group, the media agency unit of advertising giant Publicis Groupe, sources said. As part of the deal, Starcom gets a “first look” at all of the online properties created by the innovative production company headed by Lloyd Braun (pictured here) and Gail Berman. BermanBraun produces both digital and mainstream content.

Hollywood’s Steve Levitan and Lloyd Braun at D8: The Full, Uncut Video

Beth Callaghan in D8 on July 8, 2010 at 5:54 pm PT

Full D8 Video: Hollywood's Steve Levitan and Lloyd Braun

Kara Swisher in D8 on July 8, 2010 at 4:40 pm PT

As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Today, we check in with BermanBraun’s Lloyd Braun and Steve Levitan, co-creator of television hit “Modern Family.” The topic in their interview was where content was headed in the digital age and how the entertainment industry is coping.

Making Fun of Prince Is Easy–Figuring Out How Talent Thrives in a Digital Age, Not So Much

Kara Swisher in News on July 7, 2010 at 12:55 am PT

So, yes, the quote Prince said about the Internet being “completely over” made him sound like a Luddite idiot. But–after spending several days here in Los Angeles this week, talking to execs, talent and others who toil in the entertainment industry–I can’t say what I am hearing is that much different in terms of the continuing frustration with the lack of decent business models to replace the ones that have worked for so long and been so lucrative for the entertainment and media industry.

Lloyd Braun and Steven Levitan Live at D8

Peter Kafka in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 4:08 pm PT

Lloyd Braun is a one-man convergence story: He ran ABC, then Yahoo’s media group, and now makes up half of BermanBraun, which makes movies and TV shows and Web stuff. Steven Levitan, meanwhile, makes good old-fashioned TV shows like “Frasier” and “Just Shoot Me.” But he earned digital bona fides this spring, when his hit show “Modern Family” used the iPad as a plot device. Time to compare and contrast!