Sam Bellikoff

Supervising Producer for 2021-2023 Awards Season – Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, People’s Choice Awards, SAG Awards & Golden Globes. Lead creative team from development through delivery for live red carpet shows including segment creative, game producing, scripting, video producing, devising questions for over a thousand live celebrity interviews, producing talent, and producing live on the carpet for all of E!s award show coverage including Panel Shows and Aftershows

Pop Cultured – (2021) – Showrunner who developed & produced talking head pop culture comedy series. Six half hour episodes, where I developed all content, conducted all on camera interviews & led team in story producing and scripting process of the episodes ● People Now (2019 to Present) – Conduct on-camera interviews & weekly Real Housewives recaps. Produce live and pre-taped celebrity interview segments from start to finish including research, script-writing, host & celebrity prepping, talent & publicist management, post-production & headline-writing ● Chatter (2018) – Showrunner for Daily Live Talk Show with 100+ Episodes. Managed team of 10-15 LA Employees daily. Facilitated Host Hiring & in-ear communication during live shows. Approved celebrity guest & rotating co- host bookings, managed talent, approved &finalized daily show rundown, elements & script consisting of news topics, celebrity interviews & celebrity games. Worked with marketing & sales on sponsorships and social media team on promotion and clips. ● Awards Shows (2016-Present) – Helped spearhead People & Entertainment Weekly’s Red Carpet Shows during my entire time at People in various capacities- including script writing, fact-writing, host prep and communication, and producing from both on the red carpet and in control rooms from New York or locally outside the red-carpet ● Fan Forum: Survivor (2017) – Lead Producer for two seasons of live weekly People TV Survivor aftershow, with celebrity guests & former Survivor contestants breaking down the latest episode of Survivor in front of a live and interactive audience of Survivor fans. Approved Bookings, Wrote scripts, Managed production team, audience, host and celebrity guests, and was in host’s ear during live shows ● Various other projects at people (2015-2017) – Launching and producing numerous People Food, Style, Weddings and Royals Content and Franchises, from live shoots to pre-taped segments in both studio and the field

Devised creative for challenges, location scouted, produced large-scale field shoots with crews of 200 people and 200 plus guests per episode, cast featured extras, supervised and facilitated all department’s needs including production management, story, art department, culinary, lighting, and talent. Coordinated with legal and press. Managed twitter outreach for series casting.

Brainstormed, Researched, Cast, Wrote creative and further developed a slate of potential new reality TV series

Wrote script for 10 hosted marathon wrap segments, developed creative, chose props, selected music, and handled talent.

Research, Brainstorm, and Produce Field Segments/Sketches. Scout and Acquire Locations. Procure props and set decoration for sketches. Participate in on-camera interviews. Work with talent and MTV internal departments. Coordinate with post-production to address network notes. Pull B-Roll for episodes. Write loglines and facilitate selection and delivery of press clips.

Research, Brainstorm, and Produce Field Segments/Sketches. Scout and Acquire Locations. Procure props and set decoration for sketches. Participate in on-camera interviews. Work with talent and MTV internal departments. Coordinate with post-production to address network notes. Pull B-Roll for episodes. Write loglines and facilitate selection and delivery of press clips.

Worked on 15 + seasons Jersey Shore, Real World, and The Challenge franchises and pilots. Screened cuts of all episodes. Acted as liason between MTV departments and third-party productions. Wrote loglines, cast bios, series descriptions. Chose press clips, assisted with promos, programming, online, production management, talent, press, legal, and on shoots.