Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz

NICKY WEINSTOCK cut his teeth writing speeches for the president of Newscorp (Rupert Murdoch), running development for the chairman of FOX (Peter Chernin), and running Judd Apatow’s company while developing “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Pineapple Express,” “Step Brothers,” “Get Him To The Greek,” and “Bridesmaids.”  presently, he is the president of invention studios, a film and TV production company currently developing more than a dozen movies at 20th Century FOX, New Regency, CBS films, Lionsgate, and Debmar Mercury’s 10/90 TV division.

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JIM NORTON has emerged as one of the most versatile, unique voices in comedy, and is a 2-time NY Times best selling author, sells out theaters nationwide as a standup comedian, and was a regular contributor on Tonight Show with Jay Leno & guest on The Late Show W/ David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Chelsea Lately, Inside Amy Schumer, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, On the radio, Jim is one of the stars of the popular Opie & Anthony show, does a nightly music show, Obsessed, on Ozzy’s Boneyard, and hosts his own weekly advice show, The Jim Norton Show. He has also appeared as an actor in numerous TV series andfeature films, has had three hour comedy specials, four albums, and created the anti-social comedy tour franchise, which brings together Jim’s headliner comedian friends on the same stage for stand-up shows. 

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ANDREW PANAY of Panay Films is a highly accredited producer who was formerly one of three partners at Tapestry Films, a Beverly Hills-based motion picture finance and production company known for producing hit movies. He is responsible for developing Miramax's "She's All That," co-producing “Serendipity" starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, and producing the monster box office smash "Wedding Crashers" starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, which has grossed over 200 million dollars domestically. Other films Andrew has produced in some capacity are "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" and "Pay It Forward" starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment at Warner Brothers. His latest venture is the groundbreaking and innovative "Earth to Echo.” this is the first “Industry Standard” podcast ever recorded in two parts and feels like a double album with one of Hollywoods most prominent, inspirational, and comedic producers.

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1st Anniversary Show (Industry Standard with Barry Katz with special guest Barry Katz) with Jay Mohr…and featuring Bert Kreischer, Brad Williams, Ben Gleib, John Dimaggio, and Neal Brennan.

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DAVID JANOLLARI has had a career that has spanned almost 3 decades, and has been a high level studio executive, a network president, and a co-founder of a successful production company. he started his career at Fox, moved on to be hired by Les Moonves at Lorimar/Warner Brothers, became president of the WB network, co-ceo of his own company Greenblatt-Janollari, and most recently was the head of programming at MTV. now working in an overall deal with NBC productions with his former partner Bob Greenblatt, David is best known for developing and launching some of the biggest hits on television like “Hanging with Mr. Cooper,” “The Hughleys,” “The Jamie Fox Show,” “Living Single,” “Six Feet Under,” “Awkward,” Supernatural,” and “Friends.”

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JONATHAN MURRAY (CEO, OWNER, AND CHAIRMAN OF BUNIM-MURRAY PRODUCTIONS) IS an Emmy award winning executive producer, Widely credited with inventing the modern reality television genre, With the launch of The Real World (MTV) almost 3 decades ago. Together with his partner, the late Mary Ellis-Bunim who passed away in 2004, Murray grew the company from a two-person shop into an industry powerhouse, launching some of the most innovative unscripted entertainment on television. They created and executive produced an incredible array of HIT PROGRAMMING including the first docu-reality series (“The Real World”), the first reality game show (“Road Rules”), the first reality sitcom (“The Simple Life”), and the first reality soap opera (“Starting Over”).  A few of their other seminal television shows that moved the needle were “project runway,” “Making the Band,” “Love Cruise,” and “Bad Girls Club,” as well as the award winning feature films “Pedro” for MTV and “Valentine Road” & “Autism: The Musical” for HBO.

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QUAN PHUNG is the president of scripted television at slingshot global media, a new independent TV studio based in Los Angeles that develops, produces, finances, and distributes premium scripted content on linear and digital platforms throughout the world. Phung is a veteran TV producer and studio/TV executive who prior to coming aboard slingshot, held various creative roles at bluegrass television (Whitney/Ted), 20th Century Fox TV, Fox Broadcasting Company, and NBC. Among the series he developed are the Emmy award winning shows “House,” “How I Met Your Mother,” and “Arrested Development.”

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MIKE ROYCE is best known as of the executive producers of “Everyone Loves Raymond.” He started as a stand-up comedian in New York City and continued that path for 12 years and became a fixture at the comedy cellar and all the other clubs, appearing on a bevy of television shows, including NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” for several years, he was also the warm-up comedian for a diverse array of shows including “The Dana Carvey Show,” “The Maury Povich Show,” “Viva Variety,” and “Spin City.” in the late nineties, Mike was a staff writer for MTV’s “apt. 2-f” starring the Sklar brothers, and hired by legendary showrunner Bill Lawrence to pen an episode of “Spin City.”  he joined forces with Ray Romano for the first time to help write his new york times bestseller “Everything and a Kite.” later on that year Mike wrote the ‘Sportscenter’ sketch for ray’s “Saturday Night Live” appearance, which was named one of the ‘50 greatest SNL sketches of all time’ by rolling stone.  Mike joined the writing staff of “Everybody Loves Raymond” in 1999 and won the best comedy emmy in both 2003 and 2005.  Post-Raymond, Mike partnered with Louis C.K., serving as executive producer and showrunner of HBO's first ever sitcom, “Lucky Louie”  and in 2008, mike co-created TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” with Ray Romano, serving again as executive producer and showrunner. In addition to glowing critical notices, the show won the prestigious Peabody award in 2011, as well as the TV academy ‘honors award for programming’ that inspires, informs, motivates, and has the power to change lives.” this year mike has been under a development deal at 20th century fox, while executive producing and co-showruning the critically acclaimed Fox comedy “Enlisted.”

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SANDY GRUSHOW is one of a rare breed of entertainment executives who has successfully married his vast experience in traditional media with the explosive world of digital media and technology. For nearly 25 years, Grushow achieved creative, financial, and strategic leadership success as chairman of FOX’s broadcast network and television studio, where his tenure saw the debut of “American Idol,” “24,”House,”Malcolm in the Middle,” and “The OC.” Additionally, he is widely credited as the instrumental leader in the establishment of the new brand identity of the broadcast network and helped launch such signature hits as “The Simpsons,” “In Living Color,” “Beverly Hills 90210,” and “Cops.” when Grushow assumed the presidency of the networks’ entire entertainment operations, he became the youngest executive to ever hold such a post. In that leadership role, he oversaw the development and launch of “The X-Files,” “Melrose Place,” and “Party of Five,” while expanding the network from 4 to 7 nights of primetime programming. in his duties at FOX’s TV studio division, 20th Century Fox Television. Grushow inherited an 8th-ranked studio with just 5 shows on the air. With Grushow at the helm, the studio’s output quickly ballooned to 22 shows, surpassing Warner Brothers Television to become Hollywood’s top-ranked studio. Presently, Grushow has his own advisory company which has worked with the highest level companies working on worldwide digital initiatives …including Alloy Digital, Machinima, Filmaka, Maker Studios, and YouTube.

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DAVID SALZMAN is an entertainment icon whose experiences comprise 4 successful startup companies, 2 magazines, 12 TV stations and more than 15,000 hours of tv productions, plus 3 significant turnarounds as a CEO or CO-CEO.  Salzman co-founded Telepictures, was the CEO of Group W Productions (winning over 100 awards including multiple Emmys), chief for all TV activities at Lorimar, and over his illustrious career, he created, developed and/or supervised more than 200 network and syndicated TV series, specials, movies and miniseries including “Dallas,” “Knots Landing,” “Falcon Crest,” “Full House,” “Alf,” “The People’s Court,”“Love Connection,” and created the Jenny Jones talk show which ran for 12 years.  Additionally, he also produced projects with Sports Illustrated, Life and People Magazines and went on to partner with Quincy Jones to produce numerous respected projects, including the 1993 “People’s Celebration”at the Lincoln Memorial as President Clinton’s first official inaugural event (featuring 650 performers before a live in-person audience of 500,000 and more than 40 million viewers worldwide), the acclaimed “1996 Academy Awards Show,” and the epic 1995 “Concert of the Americas.” Salzman’s executive producer/writer credits include “MADtv” (14 years on Fox), “The Rerun Show” (NBC), “In The House” (NBC and UPN), and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” (NBC). He also co-produced 3 films…“Steel,” “Passing Glory” and the Oscar-nominated short film “Vacuums.” He also produced several Tony award-winning Broadway shows like “Urinetown: The Musical,” “Side Man,” “Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party,” “Legally Blonde,” and “Butley.” His honors include the multiple Emmy Awards, the American Academy of Achievement Gold Plate, the H.E.L.P. Group’s Humanitarian Award, The Tree Of Life Award from the Jewish National Fund, the Christopher Award, the Ace Award, and the Lifetime Achievement and Distinguished Alumnus Awards.

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