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Barry Poznick and John Stevens
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Barry Poznick & John Stevens
Founders and CEOs of Zoo Productions

Is there such a thing as too much reality TV? Not according to Barry Poznick and John Stevens. "It's kind of like asking is there such a thing as too many magazines on the newsstands," Poznick says. "If people want it, we'll make it." Since 1994, Zoo Productions' diverse roster of programming has included everything from the internationally syndicated Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Girls Behaving Badly and Speeders Fight Back to How'd You Get So Rich?, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best and the No. 1 show on the Hub, Family Game Night. The common thread among them is humor. "Everything we do has to have a sense of humor and a personality," Poznick says. That includes It's Worth What?, their new summer series with Cedric the Entertainer, as well as 40 episodes of the game show Lingo, in production for GSN. Then there are the four reality pilots in the works for Disney, CMT, Spike and MTV. "Yes, we work 16-hour days, edit around the clock and come up with new ideas 24 hours a day," Poznick says, "but this is our dream, to make TV shows. I have no patience with people who complain about anything who do what we get to do for a living."

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