George Verschoor is a showrunner, director and writer known primarily for producing unscripted/reality series for television, such as The Real World

The Real World

The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...

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Career

Verschoor developed, produced and directed the first four seasons of MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

’s groundbreaking series The Real World

The Real World

The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...

and the acclaimed special, A Tribute To Pedro Zamora

Pedro Zamora

Pedro Pablo Zamora was a Cuban-American AIDS educator and television personality...

. He then went on to produce and direct other series for MTV, including MTV's Fear, Undressed

Undressed

Undressed is an American anthology series that aired on MTV from July 26, 1999 to September 5, 2002. The series was created and executive produced by British director Roland Joffé.-Synopsis:...

, Now What?, and the original slacker comedy, Austin Stories

Austin Stories

Austin Stories is MTV's first ever prime time situation comedy, which debuted September 10, 1997, and aired Wednesday nights at 10:30 pm. The show aired twelve episodes filmed on location in Austin, Texas....

. He also directed the pilot and multiple episodes of the Howard Stern

Howard Stern

Howard Allan Stern is an American radio personality, television host, author, and actor best known for his radio show, which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style...

 comedy show Son of the Beach

Son of the Beach

Son of the Beach is an American sitcom that aired from 2000 to 2002 on the FX network. The series was a spoof of Baywatch, with much of the comedy based on sexual jokes, innuendo and the like. The studly David Hasselhoff character is instead an average, pot-bellied, out-of-shape bald man but...

In 2001, Verschoor founded Hoosick Falls Productions. As part of Hoosick Falls Productions’ overall deal with Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 Television Studios, Verschoor created and executive produced the first-ever reality/scripted hybrid, Murder in Small Town X

Murder in Small Town X

Murder in Small Town X is an American reality television series created by George Verschoor, Robert Fisher, Jr., and Gordon Cassidy and was hosted by Sgt...

. Verschoor then produced the documentary The Women of K2 for National Geographic, profiling the women who have attempted to climb the world’s deadliest mountain.

Verschoor created and was executive producer / showrunner of the live music competition Nashville Star

Nashville Star

Nashville Star is an American reality television program. It was transmitted during mid-2008 on NBC, following five seasons on USA Network. It premiered on March 8, 2003, and its five seasons on USA made it the longest-running competition series on cable television. In Canada, the show aired on CMT...

for USA Network

USA Network

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/NBC

NBC

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, along with multiple other musical series and specials, including the hip hop comedies Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up and Shwayze, both for MTV. In 2009, Verschoor executive produced the David Lynch Foundation

David Lynch Foundation

The David Lynch Foundation For Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace is a global charitable foundation based in Fairfield, Iowa. It was founded by film director and Transcendental Meditation practitioner David Lynch in 2005....

’s charity concert event Change Begins Within, headlined by Sir Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...

, and featuring Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...

, Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. He is widely considered a cultural icon of alternative rock.He is also involved in soundtrack work and contributes to albums...

, Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld , which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show's final two seasons,...

 and Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...

.

Verschoor’s Hoosick Falls Productions created and executive-produced Scrappers for Spike TV

Spike TV

Spike is an American cable television channel. It launched on March 7, 1983 as The Nashville Network , a joint venture of WSM, Inc...

, which follows a team of Brooklyn-based scrap metal recyclers, which premiered in August 2010.

Verschoor is currently the Executive Producer and Showrunner of the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is a reality television series providing home renovations for less fortunate families and community schools etc...

Productions

Production	Role	Network	Year
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is a reality television series providing home renovations for less fortunate families and community schools etc...	Executive Producer	ABC	2010
Scrappers Scrappers Scrappers is a reality television series about three competing groups of scrappers from Brooklyn, New York who collect and sell scrap metal. The series premiered 3 August 2010 at 10pm on Spike TV.-Scrap crews:...	Creator, Executive Producer	Spike	2010
Shafted (pilot)	Creator, Executive Producer	GSN	2009
Buzzin' Buzzin' "Buzzin" is the first single by alternative hip hop artist Shwayze. The song peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 47 on the Pop 100. There are remixes DJ Skeet Skeet & Cory Nitta which features Wale, will.i.am, Villains, AC Slater, The Knocks, The Rondo Brothers, Classixx, and...	Creator, Executive Producer	MTV	2008
The Smart Show	Executive Producer	AOL/HBO	2007
Brother Baldwin (pilot)	Creator, Executive Producer	Vh1	2007
The Rock Life	Creator, Executive Producer	MTV	2007
Tim Stack's Family Vacation (Pilot)	Creator, Executive Producer	Nick at Nite Nick at Nite Nick at Nite is the nighttime Cable network that broadcasts over the channel space of Nickelodeon on Sundays from 8.p.m.-7.am., Monday through Fridays from 9 p.m.-7 a.m. and Saturdays from 10 p.m.-6 a.m. . Though it shares channel space with Nickelodeon, A.C. Nielsen Co...	2006
Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up	Creator, Executive Producer	MTV	2004
Home James	Creator, Executive Producer	Vh1	2005
Most Likely To(pilot)	Creator, Executive Producer	Vh1	2004
The Women Of K2	Executive Producer	National Geographic Channel	2003
Nashville Star Nashville Star Nashville Star is an American reality television program. It was transmitted during mid-2008 on NBC, following five seasons on USA Network. It premiered on March 8, 2003, and its five seasons on USA made it the longest-running competition series on cable television. In Canada, the show aired on CMT...	Creator, Executive Producer	USA Network	2003
Star Dates	Creator, Executive Producer	E!	2002
Murder in Small Town X Murder in Small Town X Murder in Small Town X is an American reality television series created by George Verschoor, Robert Fisher, Jr., and Gordon Cassidy and was hosted by Sgt...	Creator, Executive Producer	Fox	2001
MTV's Fear MTV's Fear MTV's Fear is an American paranormal reality television series that originally aired from 2000 to 2002 on MTV. The program follows a group of 5 or more contestants being left at an allegedly haunted location and led them on a series of dares over two nights to explore and confirm whether or not the...	Director, Executive Producer	MTV	2000
MTV's Now What? Now What? "Now What?" is the first episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama House. It first aired on September 20, 2010.-Plot:In the aftermath of last season's finale in which House and Cuddy admitted they had feelings for each other, the seventh season opener finds the two exploring the...	Episodic Director	MTV	2000
Son of the Beach Son of the Beach Son of the Beach is an American sitcom that aired from 2000 to 2002 on the FX network. The series was a spoof of Baywatch, with much of the comedy based on sexual jokes, innuendo and the like. The studly David Hasselhoff character is instead an average, pot-bellied, out-of-shape bald man but...	Episodic Director	FX	1999
Undressed Undressed Undressed is an American anthology series that aired on MTV from July 26, 1999 to September 5, 2002. The series was created and executive produced by British director Roland Joffé.-Synopsis:...	Episodic Director	MTV	1999
Austin Stories Austin Stories Austin Stories is MTV's first ever prime time situation comedy, which debuted September 10, 1997, and aired Wednesday nights at 10:30 pm. The show aired twelve episodes filmed on location in Austin, Texas....	Director, Co-Executive Producer	MTV	1997
A Tribute to Pedro Zamora Pedro Zamora Pedro Pablo Zamora was a Cuban-American AIDS educator and television personality...	Creator, Executive Producer	MTV	1995
The Real World: London The Real World: London The Real World: London is the fourth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow and document their lives and interpersonal relationships...	Director, Producer	MTV	1994
The Real World: San Francisco The Real World: San Francisco The Real World: San Francisco is the third season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships...	Director, Producer	MTV	1993
The Real World: Los Angeles The Real World: Los Angeles The Real World: California is the second season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of several diverse strangers living together for several months, as the cameras follow their lives and interpersonal...	Director, Producer	MTV	1992
The Real World: New York The Real World: New York The Real World is the first season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal...	Director, Producer	MTV	1991

External links

• Hoosick Falls Productions on Facebook
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• George Verschoor at the Internet Movie Database
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