Tony Honoree Bill Berloni Will Bring His Broadway Dogs to the Small Screen in New Reality Series

Tony Award honoree Bill Berloni is bringing puppy love to the small screen. The Broadway animal trainer will headline a new reality TV series on Discovery Family Channel beginning in August, Variety reports. The current working title for the series is From Wags to Riches with Bill Berloni.

The program will follow Berloni’s involvement on the Great White Way, as well as his life as an animal rights activist and his home life—with the 25 plus animals he’s rescued and sheltered personally.

This season, pups trained by Berloni can be seen in The Audience and Living on Love. Hs numerous additional credits include Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Bullets Over Broadway, Legally Blonde and Gypsy. He got his start in 1977 when he rescued and trained the dogs for the original production of Annie (he has since served as the animal trainer for both Broadway revivals and the 2014 remake).

Take a look below as Audra McDonald and Berloni audition dogs to play Pepe in last season’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.