Welcome to the first ever Philly Phriday! Each Friday, I'm going to highlight a production company that hails from the Philadelphia area. This week's spotlight is on...
If you don't know Nancy Glass, then you don't know television. Ms. Glass is a 6-time Emmy Award winning television host, producer, and writer. She's done it all and now owns her own company that does some pretty identifiable work. Nancy Glass specializes in non-fiction reality cable programming with current shows gracing the screen on networks like the Cooking Channel, Travel Channel, HGTV, Food Network, Animal Planet, and Nat Geo.
The company's recent success was secured by the execs over at Animal Planet. Charlie Foley, the EVP of Original Content over at Discovery Communications, developed the show concept and passed it over to Glass's team to produce. You should check out Charlie Foley, his resume is absolutely mind-blowing. The guy has a gift.
A bit of industry knowledge: television shows can be developed by in-house network executives and assigned to production companies or by development teams at production companies, who create them and then shop their ideas to various networks.
Anyway, just last week, the series was renewed for a fifth season! This is monumental for Nancy Glass Productions because Animal Planet has seen a tremendous growth in the past two years because of shows like Tanked, River Monsters, and the most anticipated event of the year, every single year: PUPPY BOWL. It now ranks #16 in cable for men 25-54, which is huge for the network and Discovery Communications as a whole.
Fun fact: Discovery Communications is the #1 Pay TV Provider in the world. They're huge. They own 100 channels in more than 180 countries and have 13 networks in the US alone. They're like the Roman Empire- the sun never sets on them.
The momentum keeps rolling for the Bala Cynwyd based company. Philadelphia-native and owner of La Colombe coffee, Todd Carmichael joined forces with Nancy Glass to create Dangerous Grounds. The reality series, which airs on Travel Channel, follows Carmichael as he scours the most exotic places across the globe looking for the best coffee beans. The hour-long episodes wooed audiences, which led Travel Channel to renew the series in 2013, green lighting a second season. The fate of the program is up in the air, as it is waiting for the go-ahead for season three, but I have faith.
Another slam dunk for the company (and the last I'm going to go into detail on because I'm in need of a cat nap) is their yearly RV special that airs on HGTV... and has been since 2008. That's six years, people. Each year, Nancy Glass and her team follow three families as they navigate the US's most extravagant RV expo in hopes of finding their dream RV. Viewers get an inside look at all the fancy and flashy new technology used to make RVs even more luxurious. More than likely HGTV will order RV 2015 as the previous editions have done well.
I should mention that Nancy Glass also has offices in LA, but if you Google her, the Philadelphia address comes up. First in Google's heart is first in my heart... which basically means it's not up for debate.
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