Imagine’s Anna Culp will serve as producer alongside Peter Afterman. Imagine Entertainment has partnered with Warner Music for this third season, which will again be executive produced by Imagine’s Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Francie Calfo Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane (MWM Studios) and Sam Sokolow (EUE/Sokolow). Bringing David, Kallman and Warner Music Group on board was very important in that aspect, with the producers currently able to use about 80% of Franklin’s catalog and working to secure the remaining titles. The project had been moving full steam ahead since, with securing access to Franklin’s music considered the one key element that would clinch a green light. The idea of doing a Franklin-centered Genius came together quickly following the music icon’s Augdeath, spearheaded by Imagine’s Brian Grazer. Music mogul and longtime Franklin collaborator Clive Davis as well as Atlantic Records chairman and CEO Craig Kallman also executive produce. Suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright of Topdog/Underdog, will be executive producer and showrunner of the series, from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV Studios. It was announced at TCA in February that the upcoming season of Genius would be devoted to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who died in August at age 76. Sabrina Owens, representative of The Estate, will serve as a producer on the series. The Estate of Aretha Franklin has joined Genius: Aretha, the third installment of National Geographic’s Genius scripted anthology series.
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