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Brian Volk-Weiss (born May 28, 1976, in Queens, New York) is the president of production at New Wave Entertainment, running their production, development, management, distribution, and music departments. New Wave is currently the largest producer and distributor of one-hour comedy specials in the United States (Aziz Ansari, Jim Gaffigan, Katt Williams, Chelsea Peretti, Craig Ferguson, Bill Burr, Dennis Miller, etc.) and has four TV shows (''It Takes A Sister'' on Oxygen, ''StevieTV'' on VH1, ''Forever Jones'' on BounceTV, and ''Hogs and Hammers'' on History Channel) on the air, and 5 pilots in production, including the scripted drama ''The Novice'' for USA Network. In November 2013, Volk-Weiss spearheaded the development and production of NWE's first feature film; ''Redstone'' (horror), and in December, two albums he produced (Craig Ferguson and Bob Saget) were nominated for Grammy Awards. == Background == Volk-Weiss has overseen the New Wave Entertainment-produced TV series ''StevieTV'', which aired on VH1, as well as Comcast Bounce's ''Forever Jones'', and ''Naked But Funny'' for FOX. Volk-Weiss also produced ''Dane Cook's Concert Special:Isolated Incident'' on Comedy Central as well as all of Cook's movies ''Employee of the Month'', ''Good Luck Chuck'' (starring Cook and Jessica Alba), and ''My Best Friend's Girl'' (2008) as well as produced all five of Cook's albums, two of which went double platinum and one went gold. Currently in post production is ''Buying For Billionaires'' for E!, which was set to air on December 26, 2013. In the past he has produced ''The Next Best Thing'' for ABC, ''Vicious Circle'' and "Tourgasm" for HBO, ''U.S. of ANT'' for MTV, ''The Ron White Show'' for Comedy Central and ''Long Distance Relationship'' for Sony TV. In December 2009, Variety's ''Dealmakers That Are Up Next'' special profiled Volk-Weiss and nine other Hollywood executives.〔(Variety )〕 Volk-Weiss is currently overseeing production of LOGO's ''Skin Deep'', MTV2's ''Crash Test Dummies'', VH1's ''StevieTV'', Discovery ID's ''True Grime: Crime Scene Cleaners'', pilots for MTV, VH1, Sundance Channel, CMT, WEtv, and History Chanel as well as multiple one-hour comedy specials for HBO, Comedy Central, Showtime, and Netflix, including Aziz Ansari, Jim Gaffigan, Katt Williams, Dennis Miller, Bill Burr, DL Hughley, Tom Papa, Jim Norton, Kevin Nealon, and Craig Furguson. Volk-Weiss graduated from the University of Iowa in 1998 and in 2012 published his first work of fiction, ''Roman and Julia'', with co-author Ian Roumain. In the same year they produced ''That Guy...Who Was In That Thing'', a feature-length documentary about working actors that premiered on Showtime in October 2012. Two sequels are currently in production, ''That Gal'' and ''Trek Guy'', both for Showtime, which were scheduled to premiere in 2014. In November 2012, Volk-Weiss was picked by ''Daily Variety'' as part of its Impact Report in the "Tube Titans" section that recognizes major contributors to comedic television production. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Volk-Weiss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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