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Mark Burnett (born July 17, 1960) is a British television producer. He is known for introducing reality television as a genre to the United States.
roduced the U.S. version of the series Survivor and the Eco-Challenge. Survivor is the most watched summer series since Sonny and Cher. He has also produced both the U.S. and U.K. versions of The Apprentice, and helped produce the irish version of The Apprentice, The Restaurant, The Casino, Rock Star, Combat Missions, The Contender, Martha Stewart, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, and Pirate Master.
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Mark Burnett (born July 17, 1960) is a British television producer. He is known for introducing reality television as a genre to the United States.
Career
He produced the U.S. version of the series Survivor and the Eco-Challenge. Survivor is the most watched summer series since Sonny and Cher. He has also produced both the U.S. and U.K. versions of The Apprentice, and helped produce the irish version of 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 Spielberg on a FOX show titled On the Lot, which granted one out of 18 contestants an exclusive Hollywood deal with DreamWorks and Spielberg. The show premiered in May 2007.
New series for Mark Burnett in 2008 include Amne$ia and My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad on NBC and Jingles on CBS.
Since 2001, Burnett has been nominated for 48 Emmy Awards and has won two.
In 2004 Burnett was named “Philanthropist of the Year” by the Reality Cares Foundation.
In November 2007 Burnett was elected into the Broadcast and Cable Hall of Fame.
Time Magazine included Burnett in their April 26, 2004 list "100: Our List of the Most Influential People in the World Today".
Mark offered a reality show to Velvet Revolver chronicling their search for a singer to replace Scott Weiland, but they band turned them down.
Other Awards & Accolades
SHOW AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2008 Young Artist Awards Won:Best Family Television Reality Show, Game Show or Documentary: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader
2008 Teen Choice Awards Nominated: Choice TV Game Show: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader
2008 Peoples Choice Awards Nominated: Favorite Game Show: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader
2008 Kids Choice Awards Nominated: Favorite Reality Show: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader
2007 Daytime Emmy Nominated: Outstanding Lifestyle Program: Martha
2007 Family Television Award Win: Reality Show: Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader
2006 Daytime Emmy Nominated: Outstanding Service Show: Martha
2006 Emmy Nominated: Outstanding Reality-Competition Program: Survivor
2005 Emmy Nominated: Outstanding Reality-Competition Program: Survivor
2004 P.G.A. Awards Nominated: Television Producer of the Year Award in Reality/Game/Informational Series: Survivor
2004 Television Critic’s Association Nomination: Program of the Year: The Apprentice
2004 Teen Choice Awards Nomination: Best Actor, Donald Trump Nomination: Best Actor, Bill Rancic Nomination: Best Jackass, Omarosa Stallworth Nomination: Breakout TV Show: The Apprentice
2004 30th Annual People’s Choice Awards Winner: Favorite Reality Based Television Program: Survivor
2003 Emmy Awards - 4 Nominations: Survivor: Thailand & Survivor: The Amazon (judged as one show)
2003 29th Annual People’s Choice Awards Winner: Favorite Reality Based Television Program: Survivor: Thailand
2003 TV Week’s Annual Critics Poll Winner: #1 Reality Show” & “#7 Favorite Show: Survivor
2002 Emmy Awards – 4 Nominations: Survivor: Africa & Survivor: Marquesas (judged as one show)
2002 28th Annual People’s Choice Awards Winner: Favorite Reality Based Television Program: Survivor: The Australian Outback
2001 9th Annual Diversity Awards Winner: Most Diverse Television Ensemble Cast: Survivor: The Australian Outback
2001 Emmy Awards – 6 Nominations Winner: Outstanding Non-Fiction Programming, Special Class Winner: Outstanding Sound Mixing for Non-Fiction Programming (single or multi-camera): Survivor: The Australian Outback
2001 27th Annual People’s Choice Awards Winner: Favorite Reality Based Television Program: Survivor
2001 Family Television Awards given by the Family Friendly Programming Forum (3rd Annual) Winner: Reality/Alternative Programming: Survivor: The Australian Outback
2001 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Recognition Award: Survivor
2001 18th Annual Reggie Awards Gold, Multi-Channel Integrated Promotion Involving Consumer and Trade Special Super Reggie: Survivor
2001 The Publicist Guild of America Maxwell Weinberg Publicists Showmanship Award for Television:Survivor
2000 Sports Emmy Awards Won: Best Program Achievement: Eco-Challenge Morocco
PERSONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2004 Reality Cares Foundation “Philanthropist of the Year”
2004 Time Magazine: “Time 100: 100 Most Influential People in the World Today”
Early life
Mark Burnett was born in London, United Kingdom, and was an only child. From 1978-1982 he served with the Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland and the Falklands War. In 1982, Burnett moved to Los Angeles, U.S., and for the next decade held a variety of jobs, including a nanny in Beverly Hills and selling t-shirts in Venice Beach.
Career Continued
One of the driving forces behind reality television and a true visionary, Mark Burnett has a long history of Executive Producing Emmy Award®-winning television. Burnett’s entrepreneurial spirit pioneered the success of the reality “unscripted” drama series, garnered skyrocketing ratings and introduced millions worldwide to an entirely new television genre.
Burnett began his career in unscripted drama when he created the adventure series Eco-Challenge. He has since served as executive producer on nine Eco-Challenge events and programs. Eco-Challenge: British Columbia earned him a 1996 Sports Emmy Award nomination and a 1997 International Documentary Association Award nomination. In 2000, Burnett received a Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Program Achievement for Eco-Challenge: Morocco, and was awarded the prestigious Banff Rockie Award in the Sports Program Category by the 2000 Banff Rockie Awards Festival. In addition, he received an Emmy Award nomination for Eco-Challenge: Borneo in September, 2001.
In 2000 Burnett broke into prime time television with the hit reality skein, Survivor, now airing its 18th season. Its debut season won two Primetime Emmy’s and earned him six Emmy nominations total in 2001. The series was again nominated for four Emmy’s in 2002 and 2003; five Emmy’s in 2004 and in 2005. In January 2004, Survivor earned the award for Favorite Reality Based Television Program at the 30th Annual People’s Choice Award, with a nomination for the 2005 awards. Survivor: Pearl Islands was nominated for the 2004 Producers Guild Award in the Reality/Game/Informational Series.
Having produced nine worldwide Eco-Challenge races and series, eighteen Survivor series on CBS, and Combat Missions which aired on USA Network in 2002, Mark Burnett continues to break new ground in the “reality” and “unscripted drama” genre. Now airing is the eighth season of The Apprentice (NBC), with Donald Trump again at its helm. Burnett expanded the Apprentice franchise with 2005’s The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. This brilliant move highlights Burnett’s growing partnership with the media mogul, partnering with Stewart for a syndicated daytime show, Martha, which launched in September 2005.
NBC premiered The Apprentice in Spring 2003 and it quickly became the top rated new series of the season, finishing with an average audience of 28 million people. Apprentice earned four 2004 Emmy nominations, was nominated for four Teen Choice Awards, for “Program of the Year” by the Television Critic’s Association, for the 2004 People’s Choice Awards, five Emmy nominations in 2005, and the 2005 Producer Guild Awards for nonfiction programming...
In March 2005, Burnett teamed up with DreamWorks for The Contender airing its first season on NBC in 2005. The Contender, a compelling unscripted drama back dropped against the sport of boxing, focused on a nationwide search for real American heroes and the chance to revitalize boxing, with the second season airing on ESPN in July 2006. The Contender earned two Emmy nominations in 2005 and in 2006. Burnett & CBS collaborated again, this time in a worldwide search for the next greatest rock superstar. In Summer 2005, the goal of the unscripted reality musician competition Rock Star was to find the new front man for super group INXS. In July 2006, Burnett began the search for the lead singer for Tommy Lee’s new band, Supernova, for a second season of Rock Star, which aired on CBS.
Burnett’s newest adventure on the horizon is his upcoming and much anticipated co-production with Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television, On The Lot. His partnership with AOL proved to be, once again, another successful team effort with the online adventure Gold Rush, the first-ever unscripted project produced exclusively for the internet.
Additional reality projects included, Boarding House: North Shore (WB), an unscripted drama about big wave surfing, aired Summer 2003; The Restaurant (NBC), a six-hour unscripted drama, first aired in summer 2003 and its second season in Spring 2004; and The Casino (Fox) in Summer 2004.
Burnett continued to diversify by bringing his story-telling expertise to the “scripted” world of television. Spring 2003 had Burnett partnering with Carsey-Werner-Mandabach to produce Are We There Yet, a scripted sitcom pilot for the WB. Burnett also partnered with Warner Brothers Television on two scripted project: the drama pilot Global Frequency and a scripted comedy pilot, Commando Nanny.
Burnett most recently received the prestigious “Foundation Award” from the International Radio & Television Society. In 2004, he was featured in Time Magazine’s “Time 100 List” of the most influential people in the world today and named one of the “Top 101 Most Powerful People in Entertainment” list by Entertainment Weekly for the last three consecutive years. In addition early 2004 at NATPE, he received the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award recognizing individuals who have a unique passion and vision for television. He is also the latest recipient of the “Philanthropist of the Year” Award, presented by the Reality Cares Foundation. In; garnered the Number One position on TV Guide’s “Most Valuable Players” list; and earned the Number Two position on Access Hollywood’s “Top 10 in Entertainment 2000” list. Burnett was a recipient of a Special Recognition Award for Survivor from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD); was named in the Advertising Age Top 100 for 2001; and is a featured business leader in Variety’s 2001 “A Tradition of Trendsetting.” The Apprentice also won the FRAPA Format Award at the Rose D’or Festival in 2005, along with the Buzz Award in TV Product Placement for their Pontiac participation.
In addition to his producing credits, Burnett has authored two books about Survivor, a third book, DARE TO SUCCEED, and fourth, JUMP IN!, published in February 2005. He received medals for serving with the Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland and the Falklands War. He also served two elected terms on the Board of Directors for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Los Angeles and is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Currently, Burnett serves on the Board of Directors of the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Aids Foundation.
Burnett mentioned in his book that he had pre-sold the idea of an raid type adventure show to MTV Networks but never mentioned in his book how he was able to secure the deal beforehand leaving some to speculate that, in fact, someone else had produced the rights for him.
For the first season of Survivor, Burnett was paid an estimated $10,455,000. He received a staggering $10 million alone from ad revenue and a $455,000 licensing fee. At the close of the first season it was agreed by Burnett and CBS CEO Les Moonves that Burnett would no longer participate in ad revenue sharing but would be given a per episode $1,000,000 license fee. Considering Survivor, on average, has around fifteen episodes, Burnett takes home close to $15,000,000 a season. Survivor is now in its 17th season, making Burnett a very wealthy individual with a net worth in the $300,000,000 - $400,000,000 range.
It was recently announced that Mark Burnett has teamed up with Rap Mogul and Icon Sean "Diddy" Combs to find the hottest solo acts to sign to Diddy's record label Bad Boy Entertainment. Diddy who is known for his hit show Making the Band usually sets his sights on the hottest performers and creating groups but due to Mr. Burnetts overwhleming success and genius has chosen to broaden his horizons. The new show "Starmaker" is set to air this winter on MTV.
TV career
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| Eco-Challenge | 1995 - 2003 | Nominated: 1 Emmy Award
- Outstanding Non-Fiction Program
Won: 2000 Sports Emmy Award
| | Survivor | 2000 - Present | Won: 2 Emmy AwardsOutstanding Non-Fiction ProgramOutstanding Sound Mixing For Non-Fiction Programming
Nominated: 31 Emmy Awards
Nominated: 2004 P.G.A. Awards
- Television Producer of the Year Award in Reality/Game/Informational Series
Won: 2004 30th Annual People’s Choice Awards
- Favorite Reality Based Television Program
Won: 2003 29th Annual People’s Choice Awards
- Favorite Reality Based Television Program
Won: 2003 TV Week’s Annual Critics Poll
- Reality Show (#1)
- Favorite Show (#7)
Won: 2002 28th Annual People’s Choice Awards
- Favorite Reality Based Television Program
Won: 2001 9th Annual Diversity Awards
- Most Diverse Television Ensemble Cast
Won: 2001 27th Annual People’s Choice Awards
- Favorite Reality Based Television Program
Won: 2001 Family Television Awards given by the Family Friendly Programming Forum (3rd Annual)
- Reality/Alternative Programming
Won: 2001 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Won: 2001 The Publicist Guild of America Maxwell Weinberg Publicists Showmanship Award | | Combat Missions | 2002 | | | Are We There Yet? | 2003 | | | Boarding House: North Shore | 2003 | | | The Restaurant | 2003 | | | Commando Nanny | 2004 | | | The Casino | 2004 | | | The Apprentice | 2004 - Present | Nominated: 2004 Television Critic’s Association
Nominated: 2004 Teen Choice Awards
- Breakout TV Show
- Best Actor, Donald Trump
- Best Actor, Bill Rancic
- Best Jackass, Omarosa Stallworth
| | Global Frequency | 2005 | | Martha | 2005 | 2007 Daytime Emmy NominatedNominated: Outstanding Lifestyle Program
2006 Daytime Emmy
| | Rockstar | 2005 - 2006 | | | The Contender | 2005 - Present | | | Gold Rush | 2006 | | | Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? | 2007 - Present | 2008 Young Artist Awards WonBest Family Television Reality Show, Game Show or Documentary:
Nominated: 2008 Teen Choice Awards
Nominated: 2008 Peoples Choice Awards
Nominated: 2008 Kids Choice Awards
Won: 2007 Family Television Award
| | Amne$ia | 2007 | | | Pirate Master | 2007 | | | On the Lot | 2007 | | | MTV Movie Awards | 2007 - 2008 | | My Dad is Better than Your Dad | 2008 | | | Rock Band Battle | 2008 | | StarMaker | 2009 | | Toughest Cowboy | 2009 | |
International Productions
Mark Burnett shows have aired in every country in the world. As well as producing award winning television programs stateside, Mark Burnett has also sold several formats internationally to various media outlets around the world.
His international productions include: Amne$ia , Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader, which has been produced in over 55 foreign countries (it is known as ya Aap Panchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? in India.), The contender-Asia (a Thai kick boxing version of the American Boxing-Competition show), and The Apprentice which has been produced in over 21 foreign countries.
Mark Burnett is pacting with casino and resorts giant Genting Intl. to launch a $20 million joint production venture. Mark Burnett Prods. Asia will produce original content for Asian broadcasters and license those formats in markets around the world, including the U.S. The TV venture, the first for Genting, marks the latest overseas expansion for Burnett.
The new company will be based at Resorts World at Sentosa, a $5 billion mega-resort being built by Genting in Singapore and set to open in 2010. Complex will house a Singapore outpost of the Universal Studios theme park, a marine park and film production studios -- all of which will be utilized by Mark Burnett Prods. Asia.
Partnership has been constructed as a 10-year agreement, with both parties holding equal equity in the venture and agreeing to invest up to $20 million in the project over its life. It covers all parts of Asia save for Japan and the Middle East.
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