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Reese Witherspoon and Mediawan to buy back Hello Sunshine

Reese Witherspoon is teaming with Mediawan Partners to take her TV production company back from Candle Media; more details are still to come.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorReese Witherspoon is buying back Hello Sunshine, her TV production company, from Candle Media, with help from a firm called Mediawan Partners.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorShe's bringing her company home. I'm so happy I could cry into a casserole.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI'm already crying, and I'm doing it into two casseroles.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwo? Fine, but she needs a character witness. Who vouches that she's the rightful owner of her own company?

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHello Sunshine will vouch. It's been waiting by the window for years.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd it has never once been sworn in.

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