Mark Burnett is a television and film producer, author, and Chairman of MGM Television. He has garnered twelve Emmy Awards, five Producer Guild of America Awards, seven Critic’s Choice Television Awards and six People’s Choice Awards. Burnett has produced almost 4,000 hours of television programming which regularly airs in more than 70 countries worldwide.
The company Burnett leads currently has 22 original primetime programs, ten original episodes in daytime syndication as well as network television and cable series, including The Voice (NBC); Survivor (CBS); Shark Tank (ABC); Jamie Foxx’s Beat Shazam (FOX); Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader (Nickelodeon) Fargo (FX); Vikings (HISTORY); Lucha Undergrou
Mark Burnett is a television and film producer, author, and Chairman of MGM Television. He has garnered twelve Emmy Awards, five Producer Guild of America Awards, seven Critic’s Choice Television Awards and six People’s Choice Awards. Burnett has produced almost 4,000 hours of television programming which regularly airs in more than 70 countries worldwide.
The company Burnett leads currently has 22 original primetime programs, ten original episodes in daytime syndication as well as network television and cable series, including The Voice (NBC); Survivor (CBS); Shark Tank (ABC); Jamie Foxx’s Beat Shazam (FOX); Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader (Nickelodeon) Fargo (FX); Vikings (HISTORY); Lucha Underground (El Rey Network), Perpetual Grace (EPIX) and The Handmaid’s Tale which won the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series and broke ground for HULU to become the first streaming service to win this honor.
Recently Burnett announced two new series: the re-launch of his first-ever series Eco-Challenge Fiji with Amazon Prime Video, set to take air worldwide in 2020, and Generation Gap with Jimmy Kimmel for ABC.
Burnett is one of the very few producers to have had a renewed series on each of the four major networks and to have multiple series win their time slots on five nights of television in the same week.
Additionally, Burnett and his wife Roma Downey produced The Bible series on History Channel that was viewed by more than 100 million people in the U.S. alone. They also produced the feature film Son of God (20th Century Fox) that stunned the box office when it became one of the highest faith movie openings of all time and Ben Hur (MGM and Paramount). Together, Burnett and Downey have produced many television series, including The Women of the Bible (Lifetime), The Dovekeepers (CBS), A.D. The Bible Continues (NBC); Answered Prayers (TLC). They were also executive producers on the feature films Little Boy (Open Road Films) and Woodlawn (Pureflix).
The Hollywood Reporter named Burnett #1 on their Reality TV Power List – 30 Most Powerful Sellers. TIME Magazine named Mr. Burnett one of the world’s most influential people. He has won BRANDWEEK’S Marketer of the Year Award, The Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award, the PGA Norman Lear Award and the prestigious ROSE D’OR FRAPA Format Award. Burnett was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2010 and honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame in 2009.
