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Bryce Zabel
Bryce is a prolific writer/producer in TV and film, an author and, recently, the co-host of popular and critically acclaimed Need to Know. His latest feature film, a true WWII story based on a New York Times bestseller, The Last Battle, is scheduled to shoot in Europe in 2026 with Harald Zwart directing a script written by Bryce. Besides the Emmy-winning Dark Skies, Bryce has created four other primetime TV dramas including Fox’s M.A.N.T.I.S. and The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. His film, Official Denial, was the first original movie produced by Syfy. As a writer/producer, he worked on the development teams for the Spielberg series, Taken, and ABC’s Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
Bryce has previously been the elected CEO of the Television Academy (the first writer to hold the position since Rod Serling), an on-air CNN correspondent, an award-winning investigative reporter for PBS, and a USC professor teaching graduate level screenwriting. He has authored three books, including A.D. After Disclosure, a classic in UFO non-fiction. He’s a two-time winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History as well as the WGA award for Outstanding Limited Series. He’s been an Emmy nominee in the Host/Moderator category, and appears as a subject matter expert on national TV newscasts.
Brent Friedman
As a creator, writer and producer, Brent has more than 30 years of experience in entertainment across all platforms. In traditional media, Brent has worked with nearly all the major U.S. studios and networks with a passionate focus on science fiction and fantasy, including projects such as Star Trek: Enterprise, The Twilight Zone, Star Wars Rebels, and the Emmy-winning series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and the NBC alien invasion series, Dark Skies, which he co-created with Bryce.
In the early 2000’s, Brent was a transmedia pioneer with his digital media company, Electric Farm Entertainment, and has since become an expert in world-building for multiple franchises including League of Legends, Walking Dead, and most recently, Batman. In games, Brent has worked as a narrative designer and writer for some of the top companies in the business such as Electronic Arts, Zynga, Telltale, 343 Industries, Capcom and Activision.
He has compiled credits on such games as Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Empires & Allies, Halo 4, Tales from the Borderlands, Resident Evil 2
Remake, Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War, Call of Duty Vanguard, Modern Warfare 3.
Our First Episodes
#1 Party Crasher
#2 Mister Close Encounters
#2 Mister Close Encounters
The Office of Naval Intelligence sends a real Man in Black to crash NBC’s Dark Skies premiere party and offer Bryce and Brent a UFO cooperation deal. It’s Ground Zero for our entire series about the convergence of Hollywood and UFOs and secrecy. The Dark Skies series is our first portal into The Phenomenon.
#2 Mister Close Encounters
#2 Mister Close Encounters
#2 Mister Close Encounters
While praising Close Encounters of the Third Kind as the most influential UFO movie ever, Bryce and Brent tackle rumors that Steven Spielberg took his own deal with the government to get inside information and... Serpo. Brent relays exactly what Dark Skies director Tobe Hooper told him at the end of a day of scouting locations.
#3 Sagan Makes Contact
#4 The Man Who Cried Himself to Sleep
#4 The Man Who Cried Himself to Sleep
Bryce and Brent take on Contact, celebrity astronomer Carl Sagan’s love letter to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and ask if maybe Sagan had a secret life when it came to UFOs. They made him a continuing character on their Dark Skies series, and Bryce even debated UFOs with Sagan in the PBS parking lot.
#4 The Man Who Cried Himself to Sleep
#4 The Man Who Cried Himself to Sleep
#4 The Man Who Cried Himself to Sleep
A discussion about the prescient UFO movie Hangar 18 leads to both hosts recounting more brushes with government insiders. In 1981, Brent was told by a family friend and Reagan insider that aliens are real. And in 2025, a UAP whistleblower asked Bryce to help get Brent’s source to testify on Capitol Hill.
Team SLF
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Stellar Productions
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"When we first heard the story about the real Man in Black who crashed their premiere party, we knew we had to hear the whole story. That's why we ordered 36 episodes."
Our Show
Stellar Productions
iHeart Media
"The concept is simple: Hollywood, UFOs, cover-up. What could go wrong?"
Stellar Productions
Stellar Productions
Stellar Productions
"Stellar stepped up to produce Sound, Light & Frequency because what happened to Bryce and Brent put this company on the radar and defines much of our content."
Bryce Zabel
Brent Friedman
Brent Friedman
Host, Executive Producer
Brent Friedman
Brent Friedman
Brent Friedman
Host, Executive Producer
Nick Johnson
Brent Friedman
Nick Johnson
Executive Producer
Jackie Zabel
Brent Friedman
Nick Johnson
Executive Producer, Stellar
Tyler Stevens
Brad Markowitz
Brad Markowitz
Co-Producer
Brad Markowitz
Brad Markowitz
Brad Markowitz
Consulting Producer
Anna Stumpf
Brad Markowitz
Anna Stumpf
iHeart Podcasts
Ben Bowlin
Brad Markowitz
Anna Stumpf
iHeart Podcasts
Dylan Fagan
Dylan Fagan
Dylan Fagan
iHeart Podcasts
close encounters of the hollywood kind
Aliens Mean Box Office
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