Bob Boden is an EMMY® Nominated Executive Producer, network/studio executive and international format consultant who is acknowledged as an industry leader in game show programming. He also possesses an unmatched encyclopedic knowledge of game show history and has worked closely with many of the pioneers of the genre.

Bob first made his mark as a game show EP with GREED, a format he co-created with Dick Clark, which was broadcast in primetime on FOX and was sold to 19 countries. Most recently he was showrunner for the THE CHASE, the US adaptation of the successful ITV quiz format. In addition, he was Co-Executive Producer on the game show series HEAD’S UP, which he originated with Ellen DeGeneres, and the US version of the Israeli format BOOM!

His other producing credits include FAMILY FEUD, DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS, PARADISE HOTEL 2, SOLITARY, CHALLENGE OF THE CHILD GENIUSES, and PICTIONARY. He was also a free-lance writer for JEOPARDY!

In addition to his producing career, Bob has served as a high-level executive for numerous companies, including launching and serving as head of programming for Game Show Network and FOX Reality Channel. His other executive credits include CBS Daytime, ABC Daytime, FX, The Family Channel, Hasbro Studios, Dick Clark Prods., Mark Goodson Prods. and Barry & Enright Prods.

Among the shows that Bob has supervised as an executive are THE PRICE IS RIGHT, MATCH GAME, PYRAMID, WHAMMY!, and LINGO. His concept for the documentary BIG BUCKS stood as the highest rated telecast in GSN history for almost a decade.

Bob has also produced, launched and consulted on game shows in Canada, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Israel, Ireland, Scotland, and the United Arab Emirates.

He has also served as a game show format and production consultant to a wide variety of prominent companies, including Sony Pictures TV International, National Geographic Channel, Endemol Shine USA, Mark Burnett Prods., Fremantle Media, Telepictures, dick clark productions, Talpa Media, Stage 29 Prods., Lionsgate, Ryan Seacrest Prods., Electus, Warner Bros. Animation, ITV Studios, Vin di Bona Prods., Mission Control Media, GSN, Zodiak USA, Bunim-Murray Prods., Core Media, Next Entertainment, Sharp Entertainment, Shed Media, DirecTV, Nigel Lythgoe Prods., Don Mischer Prods., Zone 3 (Canada), 44 Blue, Atlas Media, AMC, Fox Family Channel, Nickelodeon, Univision, Nash Entertainment, USA Network, HBO, WGBH-TV, Columbia Pictures TV, Universal TV and Twentieth TV.

As a consultant, Bob has helped launch several series, including ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER, MATCH GAME, MILLION SECOND QUIZ, and TRATO HECHO (Spanish version of LET’S MAKE A DEAL).

He has co-created over thirty original formats that he is currently developing for a variety of networks and major production companies some of which have been optioned by Fremantle Media, Bunim-Murray Prods., Original Prods., Ryan Seacrest Prods., A. Smith Co., ITV Studios, and Discovery Studios.

Bob was recently named to the prestigious consulting team for the Format People Group, an international television consulting company with clients all over the world, which specializes in format creation, development and doctoring, purchase, sales and distribution strategy; ground-up network infrastructure, up-skilling, original studio design, network brand identity, programming, international market and conference development and implementation.

Speaking on: Game On: 75 Years of Game Shows