What Game Shows Teach You About Life | Bob Boden | TEDxSyracuseUniversity

Описание: Hello! I’m Bob Boden, a.k.a. “TV Bob,” a media professional with over four decades experience in the non-scripted/reality TV space, with a concentration on game and competition shows. I have learned a lot about living life from my passion and my work, which I happily share to inspire you. As a producer, writer, executive, professor, husband and father, I thank you all for playing. Emmy® Nominee Bob Boden's career in all forms of non-fiction and unscripted/ alternative TV programming has included senior management and production functions for a variety of television studios, networks and production companies. He is frequently acknowledged as an industry leader in the game and reality genres. Prior to his current role as Executive Vice President, Production & Development for Entertainment Studios and Executive Producer of the daily syndicated comedy celebrity game show Funny You Should Ask, Bob’s other production credits include executive producer of GSN's The Chase (for which he was nominated for an Emmy®), as well as four original series on the HUB family network and 19 series on FOX Reality Channel, and co-creating and executive producing the FOX prime time game show Greed. He also has senior credits on numerous docuseries, competition reality, talk, lifestyle, magazine, variety and hidden camera series and specials.
His executive positions include SVP, Reality & Game Show Development for Hasbro Studios, SVP, Programming, Production and Development for FOX Reality Channel, SVP Programming for Game Show Network, SVP Production & Development for dick clark productions, VP Development and Production for FX Networks and VP, Daytime Programming for The Family Channel, as well as other positions at CBS, ABC and Paramount Television and consulting roles at Lionsgate, Fremantle Media, Sony Pictures TV International and many others. Bob was Governor of the Reality Programming peer group of the Television Academy for the past five years, as well as serving as Chair of the Primetime Awards Committee. He is an adjunct professor for the Los Angeles semester program of Syracuse University’s prestigious S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication, and co-founder of the National Archives of Game Show History, part of the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
Bob graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from UCLA, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre Arts. He is a native of New York and currently lives with his family in Los Angeles. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx