- Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett (born 17 July, 1960) is a British television producer. He is known for introducing reality television as a genre to the USA. "Survivor" is the most watched summer series since "Sonny and Cher". Burnett produced the USA version of the series "Survivor" and the "Eco-Challenge". His eponymous production company setup "The Apprentice", "The Restaurant", "The Casino", "Rock Star", "Combat Missions", … - Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. Spelling currently holds the world record as the world's most prolific television producer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits. - Michael Jackson
Michael Richard Jackson (born February 11 1958) is a British television producer and executive. He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC One and BBC Two, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media. He was also the Chief Executive of another major British television station, Channel 4, between 1997 and 2001. - Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years. - Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear (born July 27 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American television writer and producer who produced such popular sitcoms as "All in the Family", "Sanford and Son", "One Day at a Time", "Good Times" and "Maude". - David Letterman
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series 1994 "Late Show with David Letterman"David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an award-winning American comedian, late night talk show host, television producer, philanthropist, and IRL IndyCar Series car owner. His first major success occurred on the long-running NBC television program, "Late Night with David Letterman", … - Joss Whedon
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and "Firefly". He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987. - Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. He is perhaps best known as the host of Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" and for his political satire. Stewart started off as a stand-up comedian but later moved on to television, hosting "Short Attention Span Theater" for Comedy Central. He then went on to host his own show on MTV, called "The Jon Stewart Show". - Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is an actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and singer hailing from Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. - David Milch
David S. Milch (March 23, 1945, Buffalo, New York) is an American television writer and producer. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Yale and won the Tinker Prize in English. He earned an MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. To avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, Mich enrolled in Yale Law School, but was expelled for shooting out a police car siren with a shotgun. - J. J. Abrams
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (usually credited as Jeffrey Abrams or J. J. Abrams), born to a Jewish family June 27, 1966, is an American film and television producer, writer, actor, composer and director. His greatest successes have been the ABC dramas "Alias", which he created; "Lost", co-created with Jeffrey Lieber and Damon Lindelof; and the WB drama "Felicity", co-created with Matt Reeves. - Pamela Anderson
Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-born American actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. For a time, she was known as Pamela Anderson Lee after marrying the drummer for Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee. Anderson is popularly known for modeling and television acting in the 1990s and for her large breast implants. - Bill Cosby
He joined the Navy and served at the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. It was there that he realized the importance of education and he finished his equivalency diploma through correspondence courses. In 1961, he won a track and field scholarship to the Temple University in Philadelphia. There, he studied physical education and was part of the track team and the football team. - Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer is a storyteller whose films have grossed billions and have earned their producer the acclaim and respect of the entertainment industry and moviegoers throughout the world. Bruckheimer has always been a storyteller. He began his career on Madison Avenue producing award-winning commercials including a parody of Bonnie and Clyde, which he created for Pontiac. - Chris Rock
Christopher Julius Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was described by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time. - Stephen J. Cannell
Stephen Joseph Cannell, known professionally as Stephen J. Cannell (born February 5, 1941),, rhymes with "channel", is an Emmy award winning American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor from the United States. Born in Los Angeles, California, his father owned an interior design business. He is married to Marcia and has three children. Noted for sophisticated, character-driven writing within genre formats, … - Jimmy Kimmel
James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American comedian, writer, talk show host and producer. - Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is a American actor, film director, and producer, primarily for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television, who came to prominence in the 1960s as Andy Griffith's son, Opie Taylor, on "The Andy Griffith Show", and later as Tom Bosley's son & Henry Winkler's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on "Happy Days" (a role he played from 1974 to 1980). - Ashton Kutcher
Christopher Ashton Kutcher, (born February 71978) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is an American actor. He came to fame in the late nineties by playing Michael Kelso in the television series "That '70s Show", and is known for the MTV celebrity prank show "Punk'd". He has become a lead actor in Hollywood films, and a television producer and creator of television series such as "Punk'd" and "Beauty and the Geek", as well as others. - Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow (born December 6, 1967, in Syosset, New York) is an Emmy-winning American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for writing and directing successful comedy films "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up". He also is the founder of Apatow Productions, his own production company. He has written, produced, and directed films that have grossed nearly $700 million at the box office. - Jim Henson
Jim Henson, born James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990), was the most widely known American puppeteer in modern American television history. He was the creator of The Muppets and the leading force behind their long creative run in the television series "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show" and films such as "The Muppet Movie" (1979) and "The Dark Crystal" (1982). - Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin spent much of the 1980s in New York as a struggling, largely unemployed actor. He found his passion in writing plays however, and quickly established himself as a young promising playwright. - Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, and television producer. Also known as Marky Mark in his earlier days, he had become famous in his debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He also enjoyed great fame as a sought-after advertising icon. - Chuck Barris
Chuck Barris (born Charles Hirsch Barris on June 3, 1929) is an American game show producer of the 1960s and 1970s and author. - Ken Levine
Ken Levine is a writer, director and producer in the television and film industry. Levine has worked on a number of television shows, including "M*A*S*H", "Cheers", "Frasier", "The Simpsons", "Wings", "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Becker", and "Dharma and Greg". He was co-creator of the series "Almost Perfect". Levine was also the co-writer of the feature films "Volunteers" and Mannequin: On the Move. - Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson is an American writer who has worked on several television series and comic books, as well as on a variety of other projects. She is perhaps best known for her five-year stint (from 1998 to 2003) as a writer and producer on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". - Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned more than 70 Grammy Award nominations, more than 25 Grammy Awards, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of two of the top-selling records of all time: the album "Thriller", by pop icon Michael Jackson, … - Steven Bochco
Steven Ronald Bochco (born December 16, 1943) is an American television producer and writer. He has been involved in a number of popular hits including "Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue". - Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American television personality, jewelry designer, multi-platinum selling singer, and Emmy Award-winning choreographer. In the 1980s, Abdul rose from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team to being a sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a Pop-R&B singer with a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s. - David E. Kelley
David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is a prolific multi-Emmy award winning American writer, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Picket Fences", "Chicago Hope", "The Practice", "Ally McBeal", "Boston Public", and "Boston Legal". He has also written several film scripts. Kelley's shows are renowned for their whimsical, occasionally surreal comedic touches, as well as moments of seriousness. - Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an Emmy Award-winning American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman, serving as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions. He is best known for hosting long-running television shows such as "American Bandstand", five versions of the Pyramid game show, and "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve". Clark was long known for his signature closing catchphrase, "For Now, Dick Clark, … - Greg Daniels
Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. He began his career as a writer on HBO's satirical news show "Not Necessarily the News" before moving to "Saturday Night Live". He spent three seasons at SNL, winning an Emmy Award in the process. Greg then joined "The Simpsons", writing and producing some of the most popular episodes in the history of the series (including "22 Short Films About Springfield", "Homer and Apu", … - Bill Maher
William Maher, Jr., (pronounced:) (born January 20 1956) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He hosted the late-night television talk show "Politically Incorrect" on Comedy Central and ABC, and is currently the star of "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO. On June 1, 2006, he also began hosting an internet-exclusive talk show on Amazon.com entitled "Amazon Fishbowl". Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary. - Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, producer, writer, director and Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. He gained prominence in the starring role of "A Face in the Crowd," before he was better known for his starring roles, playing the title characters in the long-running 1960s sitcom, "The Andy Griffith Show", for CBS and in the long-running 1980s and 1990s legal drama, … - Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American scriptwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of "Star Trek". He would also become one of the first people to be buried in space. - Martin Lawrence
Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence (born April 16, 1965, in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany) is an American actor, comedian, director and producer. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor. - Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. Gervais found mainstream fame with his BBC Two television programme "The Office" and the series Extras which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. - David Hasselhoff
David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland), nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor who is best known for his lead roles on "Knight Rider" and "Baywatch". He also crossed over to a successful music career, primarily in Austria, Switzerland, and most notably Germany. - Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943 in Chicago) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has been nominated for four Oscars for writing, directing and producing during the 72nd and 77th Oscars in 1999 and 2004 respectively. - Eli Stone
"Eli Stone" is an upcoming American television drama created by Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, who also serve as executive producers alongside Ken Olin who directed the pilot, with Melissa Berman producing. Produced by ABC Television Studio, After Portsmouth and Berlanti Television, the series was officially greenlit and given a thirteen-episode order on May 11, 2007, and is currently scheduled to air as a mid-season replacement in 2008.
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