Tony Jonas Net Worth is
$4 Million

Mini Biography

Tony Jonas is among the television industry’s esteemed executives. A experienced of over 25 years in the entertainment business, he today minds up his very own production business, Tony Jonas Productions, which currently resides at Disney Studios in colaboration with Touchstone Television. Tony Jonas Productions has produced 4 series since its inception. The foremost is Showtime network’s #1 strike episode, Queer as Folk (2000), considered among television’s “most daring and controversial series.” The business has just started production around the 5th season from the award-winning series. Also for Showtime, Jonas served mainly because Executive Producer from the drama series entitled “Jump Years,” a 20-show order, which tracked six close friends’ evolving relationships more than a fourteen 12 months span. Recently, Jonas offered as Executive Maker for the ABC 2003 mid-season humor, “Lost IN THE HOME,” in which a effective advertising man attempts to reclaim his neglected wife and almost-grown kids. Presently, Jonas acts as Executive Manufacturer of ABC’s much-heralded limited series, “Empire” – six shows about the gladiators and successors to Julius Caesar’s murder. It’s the most expensive crisis series creation in network background and was filmed completely in Rome to fully capture the realities of 44 B.C. As an professional, Jonas lately served as Leader, Warner Bros. Tv, a posture he kept from 1995 through l999. Under his command, Warner Bros. Tv, featured such tasks as “ER,” “Close friends,” “The Drew Carey Present,” “The Western world Wing,” “Third View,” “Whose Range Is It In any case?,” “Living One,” “The Parenthood,” “Jamie Foxx,” and “Murphy Dark brown.” Each year the company managed an extraordinary typical of 22 on-air series and managed its management as television’s leading provider of prime-time tv. Off-network, WBTV created USA cable’s personal strike “La Femme Nikita,” and TNT’s “Bull,” and “Witchblade.” Jonas also led Warner Bros. Tv in the biggest re-negotiation for Television series rights ever sold – securing with NBC a three-year renewal for “ER” which totalled almost one billion dollars. Jonas originally joined Warner Bros. (after that Lorimar Tv) in 1989 as Older Vice President, Episode Advancement. In the years pursuing, the business became the undisputed head of the dilemma series genre in both quality and quantity. He supervised advancement in the Emmy® Award-winning dramas “I’ll Journey Away,” “Homefront,” “Realistic Uncertainties,” “Gabriel’s Fireplace” and “Sisters.” In June of 1991, Jonas was promoted to Professional Vice President, Innovative Affairs, responsible for all series development encompassing comedy, drama and reality programming. Under a mandate to broaden the comedy department, aswell as attract formidable skill behind the camcorder, Jonas supervised advancement that ultimately led to the long-running strikes: “Living One,” “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper,” “Detail by detail” and “Lois & Clark: THE BRAND NEW Activities of Superman.” The next re-signing of maker John Wells, in conjunction with Michael Crichton as well as the retainer of high-profile suppliers Shiny/Kauffman/Crane, Bruce Helford and Aaron Sorkin led to not merely “ER,” “Close friends,” and “The Drew Carey Display,” however the series “Jesse,” “Whose Series Is It In any case?”, “Western world Wing,” and “Third View,” as well as the multiple Emmy-winning strike, “The Western Wing.” Before Jonas joined Warner Bros. Tv, his executive history included 3 years as Vice Chief executive, Advancement at Disney Tv; Senior Executive responsible for Advancement for Winkler/High Productions at Paramount; Vice Chief executive, Dramatic Series and Long-Form Development for MGM/UA Tv Group; Movie director of Dramatic Series for Aaron Spelling Productions and Affiliate Producer, EMI Tv, Inc. In 1984, while at Paramount Tv, Jonas created the ABC action drama, “MacGyver”, for ABC, which Winkler-Rich Productions produced for four years. It became an internationally hit. Jonas is a Plank Movie director of KCET and past-president from the Hollywood Radio and Tv Society. He’s also in the Advisory Plank from the Santa Monica Rape Base and honorary plank person in the Lilli Claire Base.

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