TV Producer

Daniel Palladino is one of the producers of the American animated sitcom Family Guy. Palladino is also a former producer and writer for the American dramedy, Gilmore Girls. He is married to television writer and producer Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls.

Mark Burnett (born 17 July, 1960) is a British-American television producer. He is known for introducing reality television as a genre to the USA. He produced the USA version of the series Survivor and the Eco-Challenge. Survivor is the most watched summer series since Sonny and Cher. He has also produced The Apprentice, The Restaurant, The Casino, Rock Star, Combat Missions, The Contender, Martha Stewart, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, and Pirate Master. He collaborated with Steven...

Brian Grazer (born July 12, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an Oscar and Emmy Award-winning American film and television producer who founded Imagine Entertainment with partner Ron Howard. Together they have produced many acclaimed films, including A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13. Grazer also produced the 1994 film The Cowboy Way, the live-action version of the holiday classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2000), Spike Lee's 2006 crime-thriller Inside Man and American Gangster (2007)...

Imagine Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1986 by director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer. Their productions include the television series 24 and Arrested Development and the films A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, and The Da Vinci Code. Karen Kehela Sherwood is co-chair with Grazer and Howard. Michael Rosenberg is the President of Entertainment and Jim Whitaker is President of Production. David Nevins is the current President of Grazer and Howard's...

Christopher Julius Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time. Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. A few years later, they relocated and settled in the working-class area of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. His mother, Rosalie (née Tingman), was...

Bad Robot Productions (formerly known simply as Bad Robot) is a production company owned by J. J. Abrams. It is responsible for the television series Alias, Lost, What About Brian, Six Degrees, and the feature length films Star Trek (2009) and Cloverfield (2008). The Bad Robot shingle was originally part of Touchstone Television, but has moved with J. J. Abrams to Paramount, Universal, Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems and Warner Bros. (for movies and television series, respectively) after his...

Aaron Spelling (April 221923 – June 232006) was an American film and television producer. As of 2007, Spelling holds the record for most prolific television producer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits. Spelling was born in Dallas, Texas, to Polish Jewish immigrant parents. At the age of eight, Spelling lost the use of his legs psychosomatic due to trauma caused by constant bullying from his schoolmates, and was confined to bed for a year. Spelling attended Forest Avenue High...

James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a Northern Irish science historian, author and television producer best known for his documentary television series called Connections, focusing on the history of science and technology leavened with a sense of humour. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland and educated at Oxford, he received his MA in Middle English from Jesus College. Later he moved to Italy where he lectured at universities in Bologna and Urbino as well as at English schools in that country. ...