Speaker Yasmin Rawji
Yasmin Rawji was named Executive Vice President, Unscripted -- Network, of FOX Entertainment, in February 2023. Based in Los Angeles, she is responsible for the development and production of FOX’s entire reality slate. Additionally, and in conjunction with FOX’s in-house unscripted studio FOX Alternative Entertainment, Rawji works on the company’s International Unscripted Format Fund to identify intellectual property for the global market.
Among the programs on which Rawji works are the culture-piercing singing competition MASKED SINGER; Gordon Ramsay’s hit cooking competition series, NEXT LEVEL CHEF, which delivered 16.7 million Total Viewers in its post-Super Bowl LVII Season Two Premiere, becoming the most-watched cooking series telecast in television history; the celebrity social experiment SPECIAL FORCES: THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST TEST, the #1 freshman unscripted series of the 2023-24 season; the guessing game-meets-baking competition CRIME SCENE KITCHEN, hosted by Joel McHale and Summer 2021’s #1 new series; JOE MILLIONAIRE: FOR RICHER OR POORER, a fresh twist on one of the most-watched dating shows in reality history; the classic music game show NAME THAT TUNE, hosted by Tony Award winner and Emmy nominee Jane Krakowski hosts and featuring Grammy-winning producer Randy Jackson as band leader; and the all-new dating program FARMER WANTS A WIFE. Upcoming series set to launch under Rawji’s purview include STARS ON MARS, in which celebrities trade in their possessions, status and glamourous
lifestyles on Earth for an insane and hilarious summer on “Mars,” and the game show SNAKE OIL, hosted and produced by Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated comedian David Spade and executive-produced by Emmy nominee Will Arnett.
Rawji also has worked on FOX’s hit Gordon Ramsay series MASTERCHEF, MASTERCHEF JUNIOR and GORDON RAMSAY’S 24 HOURS TO HELL AND BACK, as well as BEAT SHAZAM, hosted by Jamie Foxx. In addition, she oversaw FOX’s telecast of the 71ST PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS in 2019. Rawji joined FOX in 2017 as a Director of Alternative Programming and was promoted to Vice President the following year and Senior Vice President in 2021.
Prior to joining FOX, she worked in production, serving as a senior producer on “Dancing with the Stars,” for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award, and “America’s Got Talent”; and as a producer on “Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards,” “The Millionaire Matchmaker – Celebrity Edition” and “The X Factor.”
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