John Platt

Awardwinning WriterProducerDirector John Platt began his showbiz career right out of college as a Video Game WriterDesigner at the San Diego company RDI which created the hit laser disc games Dragons Lair and Space Ace At the same time he was continuing to write screenplays Platt and cowriter Roy Langsdon were hired to write their first paid film script on Halloween 1985a talking dog movie for producer Chris Whittaker called Police Dog That film was never produced but is believed to have inspired the later Jim Belushi hit K9 The Police Dog assignment earned Platt Langsdon their first agent and the pair went on to write a number of lowbudget feature films including the cultclassic Lambada movie The Forbidden Dance Between screenplays Platt also went into television writing and producing shows for E Entertainment Television and the SciFi Channel It was on a SciFi project called Masters of Fantasy that Platt met later collaborator producer Jon Kroll and the two became fast friends Kroll pulled Platt into reality TV in 2001 Platt then went on to help produce the second season of The Amazing Race where he was the only story producer to circumnavigate the globe that season Platt was also highly influential in the celebreality phenomenon as a producer on the first season of The Surreal Life a series that spawned more spinoffs than almost any other show in history He became the CoExecutive Producer of Big Brother on season 7s All Stars edition and continued to oversee story on that series through Season 11 During his years on Big Brother Platt was also CoExecutive Producer of ABCs highly controversial and critically acclaimed docuseries Brat Camp which was nominated for the Directors Guild of Americas firstever reality TV award Platt also produced ABCs critically acclaimed reality comedy The Family which The New York Times television critic Virginia Heffernan named as one of her Top 10 Programs of the Year Platt was also instrumental in developing CBS groundbreaking yet controversial series Kid Nation considered by many to be one of the best most ambitious reality TV shows ever produced Also a pioneer in online entertainment Platt executive produced Hulus first ever original series If I Can Dream with American Idol creator Simon Fuller as well as Showrunning Bravos Emmy Award winning multimedia dating series The Singles Project Platt was also the Showrunner of AEs longrunning house flipping hit Flipping Vegas and the internationally franchised FYI Series Bride Prejudice among many others Platts teenage love of playing Dungeons Dragons became an asset in 2023 when he was asked to produce over 60 hours of original content to launch the new Dungeons Dragons Adventures FAST Channel for eOne and Hasbro The DD series include Matthew Lillards improv comedy show Faster Purple Worm Kill Kill the video version of the podcast hit Encounter Party and the Dungeons Dragonsthemed cooking show Heroes Feast bringing Platts body of work to well over 500 hours of produced television Platt lives in Sherman Oaks CA with his wife schoolteacher Carrie Wong