Derek Harvie

Derek Kevin Harvie (nacido el 7 de Abril de 1974 en Deep River, Ontario) es un Canadiense de entretenimiento writer and producer. Harvie grew up en Ottawa, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film and literature. One of the original creators of The Tom Green Show en its original Canadian community canal run, Harvie continued to write and produce the show on The Comedy Network from 1996 to 1998 and on MTV from 1999 through 2003. En 2001, Harvie co-escribió la película Freddy Got Fingered. His especial de MTV documental, The Tom Green Cancer Especial, que named by Time Magazine como "one of the ten best TV programs of the year" en 2001. The show, así que, ¿qué nominated for a Premio Peabody. Harvie has worked briefly on numerous other comedia, espectáculos and pilots including WB's The Skateboard Show de VH1's Hollywood Tonight and NBC's Saturday Night Live. From 2004 to 2007 Harvie lo que the executive producer of Night Calls and all other live programming for Playboy TV. En 2008 Derek Harvie lo co-escritor, el show runner and executive producer of the half-hour comedia Testees on FX Networks in the US and on Showcase en Canada. The show is about two roommates oms prueba experimental de drogas each week and suffer ridiculous side-effects. Both Harvie y co-escritor de Kenny Hotz received 2009 Gemini Award nominations (Canadian Emmy) for Best Comedy Writing and Best Comedy Series. Testees lo que nominated for Best Directing. En 2008 & 2009, Derek Harvie lo que a contributing writer for Kenny vs Spenny which airs on Showcase en Canada and Comedy Central en the US. En 2009 Harvie lo show runner & executive producer of the half hour series Pure Pwnage. The show is a la comedia about the life of a "pro gamer" y premiered on Showcase, en Canadá, en Marzo de 2010. En Septiembre de 2010, Harvie and show creadores de Geoff Lapaire and Jarett Cale received a 2010 Gemini Award nomination for Best Comedy Series. Derek Harvie currently live in New York City where he is working as a escritor y co-productor ejecutivo de the versión americana de Skins on MTV Networks.