Name Charlie Parsons Role Television producer | ||
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Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science And Technology Programming Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program TV shows Survivor, Expedition Robinson, The Big Breakfast, Expeditie Robinson, Survivor Philippines Similar People Jeff Probst, Mark Burnett, David Burris, Conrad Riggs, Doug McCallie | ||
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Charles Andrew "Charlie" Parsons is a British television producer who created a number of notable television shows including Survivor. He also created The Big Breakfast and The Word. He first began to sell the idea of the Survivor series format in 1994, and the first version of it was the Swedish 1997 season.
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- the justin root show survivor creator charlie parsons interview
- Expedition Robinson 1997 Frsta avsnittet
- Education
- Life and career
- References
Expedition Robinson 1997 Första avsnittet
Education
Parsons was educated at Tonbridge School, a boarding independent school in Tonbridge in Kent in South East England, and credits the tough boarding school regime he endured there in the early 1970s, which at the time was commonplace, as providing an inspiration for his creation of the series Survivor. He then went to Pembroke College at the University of Oxford, where he studied English Literature and afterwards trained as a journalist. According to a review in 2000,
Life and career
Parsons has won several awards including an Emmy for United States series Survivor in 2001. His life partner is Lord Waheed Alli, who is also his business partner. Their former company, Planet 24, was sold for 15 million pounds in 1999 to Carlton Communications.
In March 2010 the Guardian newspaper reported that Parsons was investing in new independent production company, NERD, and had become the company's Chairman.
