EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that Fifth Season has pink slipped less than 20 staffers in its overall 160 employee count. We understand at the end of the day, it’s around a 10% trim.
Sources tell us that Fifth Season remains in good financial standing, and the reductions are more about staff realignment.
A rep for Fifth Season had no comment.
The news of cuts comes in the wake of the September news of Chris Rice departing Fifth Season as co-CEO. Rice’s longtime partner, fellow co-CEO Graham Taylor , became Fifth Season’s sole CEO. Rice inked first look production deal with Fifth Season, and remains an advisor to the company.
In 2017, the WME and IMG’s film and scripted TV finance and sales operation led by Rice and Taylor was spun off into Endeavor Content. The company changed it

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