John Amodeo

John grew up on Long Island where he cultivated his love of technology especially in film, television and photography. He moved to Los Angeles and started his career as an editor, joining the Editors Guild while working for Johnny Carson on several Carson Productions programs. Soon after, he joined the Director's Guild of America as an Associate Director. Because of his post production and technical expertise, he was asked to join The Reeves Entertainment Group as a production executive. During his time at REG he oversaw a number of prime-time network shows. He eventually went on to Co-Produce the situation comedy, Doctor Doctor, which launched his producing career. John has produced numerous television pilots and series in Los Angeles, New York and Canada. Among his notable shows are Sports Night, for which he designed and oversaw construction of a working video newsroom. He is credited with being the first person to produce a multi camera, High-Definition videotape sit-com when he moved the 20th Century Fox Television series Titus from 35-millimeter film to Sony HDCam. He made his directorial debut on Titus. Over the years, he's managed to receive a number of Emmy nominations, has two Golden Laurel awards from The Producers Guild of America and a Humanitas award as the producer of "Sports Night". John recently completed 9 seasons of the Last Man Standing comedy series for 20th Century Fox Television and is now producing Shifting Gears, starring Tim Allen for 20th Television and the ABC Network.