Portfolio Archive - Brady Connell

Brady has served as Executive Producer/showrunner and director of The Great Christmas Light Fight series since its inception in 2013, overseeing all creative and production elements of the successful series, including the development of its format, annual casting, nationwide shooting, short-schedule editing, and social media marketing.

Juma Entertainment asked Brady to showrun this successful CBS series that gives celebrities a chance to return to their hometown to gift a renovation to someone who helped them reach success. Celebrities have included Shaquille O’Neal and Elle King.

Brady served as Executive Producer/showrunner of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, delivering over 100 hours of the landmark series over five years.

As Supervising Producer of The Amazing Race under Executive Producer Bertram van Munster, Brady oversaw the creative aspects of the production on the new series, which launched in September 2001.

Brady is the Executive Producer/showrunner and director of this popular spin off from The Great Christmas Light Fight. It follows extreme Halloween “haunts” around the country as they competed for a $50,000 prize and the coveted “Fright Fight” pumpkin trophy.

Brady was brought on as Executive Producer and showrunner for season 2 of the NBC competition series, based on the worldwide athletic brand Spartan.

As Senior Producer of the very first U.S. Survivor, Brady worked closely with Mark Burnett and Co-Executive Producer Craig Piligian, supervising the creative elements during the three months of pre-production and 39 days of production on the island of Pulau Tiga in Malaysian Borneo.

As Executive Producer/showrunner, Brady helped develop the format for this “reality Hunger Games” competition in the wild.

After their experience together on Survivor, Mark Burnett asked Brady to direct his epic endurance competition, Eco-Challenge. It was a perfect match with Brady’s interest in large-scale, multi-camera directing.

Brady served as Executive Producer/showrunner on this dating show referred to as “The Bachelor meets Survivor.”

Brady served as Executive Producer/showrunner of the epic competition shot on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.

Brady served as Executive Producer/showrunner of this international competition series shot on remote locations in Fiji, New Zealand, New Mexico, and Tasmania.

Brady and long-time producing partner Jim Jusko executive produced this fish-out-of-water series about sons and daughters of celebrities who tackle a 20-day cattle drive through the Colorado Rockies.

This ambitious adventure series was Brady’s first Executive Producer/showrunner exploit, along with long-time producing partner Jim Jusko. Fifteen contestants traveled as a group through rugged terrain from Vancouver to the Arctic Circle.

Brady was creator, Executive Producer/showrunner, and director of this international special, where two, everyday people were challenged to prove the popular theory that we are all somehow connected by only ‘six degrees of separation.’

Brady was Executive Producer/showrunner and DGA director on this special that brought together the best skill-based ‘casual’ computer gamers in the world.

Brady executive produced this Discovery docu-competition special that followed two street racers as they legally battled it out on the racetrack.

Brady was the Co-Executive Producer/showrunner and DGA director of this couples’ competition set in and around Las Vegas, Nevada.

Race to the Altar

As the Senior Producer for the Los Angeles/Malibu summer of this annual MTV tradition, Brady worked closely with the MTV VJ talent and visiting guests, which included top bands and well-known celebrities.

For two seasons of this successful syndicated series, Brady produced and directed over 70 re-enactments of critical moments of State Police and Highway Patrol officers.

Brady served as a DGA director on this America’s Funniest Home Videos spin-off. For two seasons he traveled the country, capturing Americans telling jokes, performing skits, doing stunts, and pulling pranks.

Brady was the creative producer/co-showrunner of this 13-episode series based on the Japanese format “Endurance.”

Brady directed a deaf and hearing cast in this video that teaches sign language, and reassures hearing people they can communicate with the deaf.

How to Talk to a Person Who Can’t Hear

Brady documented the massive and dangerous volcanic eruption on the island of Montserrat during its first eruption in 350 years.

Danger Zone

Brady produced and directed this documentary segment covering the highest snowboard base-jump in the world off the 3000’ Kjerag cliff in Norway.

Extreme World Records

Brady directed six, one-hour episodes that addressed prejudice and stereotypes in middle America.

Welcome to the Neighborhood

Brady directed this dangerous, world-first parachute stunt on top of the Rectory spire in the middle of Utah’s Monument Valley.

Brady traveled the world to remote locations to document extraordinary and dangerous encounters with wildlife. As the Senior Field Producer of the series, he produced over 200 animal stories in Africa, Alaska, Australia, Asia.

Consulting Executive Producer of the series Squad Wars featuring viral video personalities The Try Guys.

Brady was hired as Consulting Executive Producer to develop the format and help hire the showrunner for a new home makeover concept that grew out of Vox’s Curbed, their real estate/home website channel.

Discovery hired Brady as Consulting Executive Producer to help develop the format, find locations, and hire the showrunner for its first ever live-broadcast survival show.

Brady and producing partner Jim Jusko were hired as Consulting Executive Producers to develop a new zombie project with Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd. The hybrid concept (combination of scripted and non-scripted) is in development at AMC.

Best known for the Undercover Boss franchise, All 3 Media America and their IDTV team hired Brady to help develop a feel good format along with Jessica Alba’s The Honest Company. The show helped ordinary people get a new lease on life after they hit some bumps in the road.

Brady oversaw the development and pre-production team that included format development, budgeting, location scouting, and casting for a primetime snow-sculpting competition series.

China’s largest privately-owned media company, LIC China, hired Brady and producing partner Jim Jusko to travel to China to develop, scout, and help pre-produce a large-scale reality project involving the Shaolin monks and the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng County, Henan province.

Sony hired Brady and producing partner Jim Jusko to develop a show around the international Hult Prize.

Brady pioneered and directed some of reality television’s first virtual reality/360 content, garnering over a quarter-million views on Facebook, YouTube, and Littlstar.

Brady directed multiple network primetime :30 commercial integrations for The Home Depot.

Brady directed and co-produced this 30-second, award-winning PSA with Danish producer Anders Dalgaard.

Russian Roulette

Brady directed President Bill Clinton in a series of campaign spots and congressional endorsements for The White House.

President Clinton Spots

Brady directed this 17-minute short film. It received the CINE Golden Eagle Award.

HITMAN

Brady directed this 6-minute short film. It received the CINE Eagle Award.

Balloon Boy

Brady and crew documented the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, including working with disaster crisis teams in the Lower 9th Ward and throughout New Orleans.

Brady directed a series of national brand essence 90-second spots promoting the ATV lifestyle.

In addition to Executive Producing and directing The Great Christmas Light Fight for Fremantle, Brady’s company Base Camp Films (with producing partner Jim Jusko) has enjoyed a multi-year development relationship with Fremantle.

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