Scarlett Johansson Produces Peacock's 'Assassins' Show — SkimNews
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- Scarlett Johansson is executive producing "Assassins," a new reality competition series ordered at Peacock, marking her entry into reality TV producing.
- The series comes from Sony's B17 Entertainment, with founders Brien Meagher and Rhett Bachner exec producing alongside Johansson.
- Players in "Assassins" are each assigned a target to eliminate before the season ends, with shifting alliances meaning "no one is ever safe" until one winner remains, per the logline.
- The concept is inspired by a real-life campus game popular on college campuses and is essentially a version of tag — a game that itself became Fox's "The Ultimate Tag" in 2020.
- The show joins Peacock's own "The Traitors" on the network's competition slate, with NBC airing "The Traitors: New Blood" and season six of the celebrity edition coming to Peacock next year.
- Johansson joins other A-list stars exec producing reality competitions, including Brad Pitt, who exec produces Fox's "Lego Masters."
Why it matters: The greenlight extends Peacock's strategy of adapting real-world games into reality formats, following "The Traitors" (based on Mafia). Johansson adds marquee producing value, though the Deadline piece concedes it is "not clear how" she attached to the project, leaving her creative stake unspecified.
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