Mark BurnettFilmography

Expedition Africa [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: An eight-part series following four explorers as they trace the steps of Henry Morton Stanley in his 19th-century quest to find David Livingstone in Tanzania. ~ Bill Ecklund, All Movie Guide Read More

Shark Tank [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Amne$ia [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Miller

Synopsis: More "reality" fare from producer Mark Burnett (Survivor), Amne$ia was one of several quickly-assembled game shows designed to keep the NBC prime-time fires burning during the TV writers' strike of 2007-2008. Described by some critics as a "friendlier" version of the same network's Moment of Read More

My Dad is Better Than Your Dad [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dan Cortese

Synopsis: One of several reality-based series hastily assembled to fill the breach opened by the TV writers' strike of 2007-2008, My Dad is Better Than Your Dad was a game show in which father-child teams squared off against one another. Put through a variety of athletic, technical and scholastic Read More

On the Lot [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Synopsis: Oscar-winning Hollywood visionary Steven Spielberg teams with reality television pioneer Mark Burnett for an unscripted series in which undiscovered filmmakers compete for the opportunity to win a development deal at DreamWorks -- the production company behind such major box-office hits as Read More

Survivor: Season 14

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: The fourteenth season of the evergreen CBS reality-competition series Survivor is set amongst the Fijian Islands, a tropical paradise occasionally festered with slithery snakes and other such nuisances. This time around, there are nineteen contestants rather than the twenty we've been accustomed Read More

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The premise of this "generation-gap" game show was implicit in its title. Each episode featured adult contestants, who were asked question culled from acutual school textbooks aimed at Grades One through Five. The grownup contestants were expected to know the same things that were presumably Read More

Survivor: Season 15

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: Though it wasn't Survivor: Morocco as previously announced, the 15th season of CBS's league-leading reality series Survivor more than compensated for any audience disappointment by being lensed in its entirety in Mainland China--the first American TV series, in fact, to utilize this fascinating Read More

Pirate Master [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Cameron Daddo

Synopsis: Another Survivor clone from producer Mark Burnett, the CBS reality series Pirate Master was clearly inspired by the extremely popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie franchise. Set during its first season on the Caribbean island of Dominica, the series featured sixteen contestants role-playing as Read More

Survivor: Season 12

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: For the third time in its 12-season history, the CBS reality series Survivor heads to Panama. Though the usual 16 contestants spend 39 days on the usual island for the usual million-dollar prize, a few changes in the format are introduced in this outing. For one, the season begins with the Read More

Rock Star: Supernova

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This CBS reality-competition series was a sequel to the same network's Rock Star, in which a talented newcomer was selected from a huge field of aspirants to perform with the prestigious rock band INXS. In this case, the winner was invited to join a brand-new musical aggregation called Supernova Read More

Rock Star: INXS

Crew: Executive Producer

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Martha Stewart

Synopsis: It was clear at the outset of the 2005-2006 season that the TV career of domestic diva Martha Stewart had not been injured in the least by her recent five-month prison stay. No fewer than two series starring Stewart debuted that year: one of them was the daily, syndicated talkfest Martha; the Read More

Survivor: Season 11

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst, Brandon Bellinger, Danni Boatwright, Margaret Bobonich, Brian Corridan

Synopsis: The eleventh season of the popular reality-game series Survivor is set in the teeming (and extremely muddy!) jungles of Guatemala. Surrounded by crocodiles, howler monkeys and hordes of mosquitoes, and battling heat that goes far beyond intense, the 18 castaways compete to be the "sole survivor" Read More

Martha [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Martha Stewart

Synopsis: Domestic diva Martha Stewart certainly didn't let any grass grow under her feet upon her release from prison after that well-publicized insider-trading scandal. Beginning in the fall of 2005, Stewart was not only headlining a weekly, hour-long reality show based on Donald Trump's The Apprentice Read More

The Contender: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sugar Ray Leonard

The Contender [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Survivor: Palau Reunion

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Inasmuch as Survivor: Palau is regarded as the "healthy comeback" for the hitherto faltering Survivor franchise, it should not be surprising that the audience for the traditional post-game "reunion" special should be one of the largest in the series' history. Certainly the cast is the largest Read More

Survivor: Season 10

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: Set in Palau, a cluster of independently governed islands near Micronesia, the tenth season of Survivor is described at the outset by series host Jeff Probst as "a season of firsts." And indeed it is. For the first time, 20 contestants -- two more players than ever before -- are whisked off to the Read More

The Apprentice [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Donald Trump, Carolyn Kepcher, George H. Ross

Synopsis: Although created by Mark Burnett of Survivor fame, the extremely popular reality series The Apprentice bore the unmistakable signature and imprimatur of its host, billionaire real-estate mogul Donald Trump. Each of the series' 13-episode program cycles found Trump presiding over 16 to 18 young Read More

The Casino [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Boarding House: North Shore [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sunny Garcia, Myles Padaca, Holly Beck, Damien Hobgood, Danny Fuller, Chelsea Georgeson

Synopsis: Assembled by the Survivor team, this weekly reality series would seem to have been inspired by the popular 2002 surfing film Blue Crush. Taped in Oahu, the series brought together seven attractive young women and men as they lived together and trained together for Hawaii's Vans Triple Crown Read More

The Restaurant [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rocco DiSpirito

Synopsis: Produced by Survivor's Mark Burnett, the six-week reality series The Restaurant chronicled the establishment of a trendy new Manhattan dining place, from the purchase of the building to opening night. The eatery was the life's dream of master chef Rocco DiSpirito, who emerged as the "hero" of the Read More

Survivor: Season 07

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: As originally conceived, the seventh season of the popular CBS "reality" game show Survivor was to have been an "all-star" exravaganza, with the winners of the previous seasons' competitions, together with the most popular players, reuniting for another round of challenges and elimations. However, Survivor: All Stars Read More

Survivor: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: Having suffered a profound ratings drop during the third season of Survivor, the series' producers made some significant alterations in the format for season four -- and the result was the property's biggest audience share in two years. It had been planned to film the fourth season in the country Read More

Combat Missions [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The first of the TV "reality" shows to reflect the tenor of America following September 11, 2001, Combat Missions was hosted and overseen by ex-Navy SEAL and former Survivor contestant Rudy Boesch. Each hour-long episode featured a group of "combat specialists": ex-Green Beret and Delta Force Read More

Survivor: Season Two - The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: From Paramount Home Video comes this collection of highlights from the second season of the world's most popular reality television show. Survivor: Season Two -- The Australian Outback: The Greatest & Most Outrageous Moments features host Jeff Probst along with all of the contestants from Debb to Read More

Survivor: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: Season three of Survivor found the 16 latest castaways vying for a one-million-dollar prize in a new location: the Shaba National Reserve, 100 square miles of savanna in north central Kenya (during shooting, public access was completely shut off from this area). Whereas the 16 contestants in the Read More

Survivor: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: After its spectacularly successful first season, Survivor returned on January 28, 2001 (right after CBS' coverage of Super Bowl XXXV), with 16 new contestants -- Americans all -- and an exotic and potentially dangerous new locale: the Australian Outback. More specifically, the 16 "castaways" were Read More

Survivor: Season One - The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: Survivor was that rare television show that grew into a genuine pop-culture phenomenon; it became the highest-rated summer series in the history of American television, and the only program broadcast in 2000 to draw a larger audience than Survivor's final episode was that year's Super Bowl. Read More

Survivor [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A hybrid of game show and reality-based adventure, this CBS series offers 16 candidates the chance to be stranded in a remote locale, with limited resources, in the hopes that one person will outlast the others and secure the show's one-million-dollar prize. Each week, the socioeconomic cross Read More