Anthony Kling

Anthony Kling is the son of Woody Kling - 7-Emmy nominee and two time winning writer and Executive Producer of All in the Family & Carol Burnett Show - Tony envisioned in the late 1980s the idea of bringing TV to the Internet with a new platform called streaming video. By the late 1990s, Anthony Kling became the first person to bring original television programming to the Internet by creating, writing, and producing programming original network programming online, dubbed "Primetime Online". Ahead of his time, Kling served as Executive Producer of the television series "Muscle Beach" and later "Sitcom, a sitcom". He delivered fifty-two episodes of television programming to the "Television Internet Broadcasting Network" (Television Internet.com) at a time when much of America still had dial-up Internet connection, and years before YouTube or Netflix. Kling appeared in Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and nearly three dozen news publications in a twenty-four month period. He appeared on Television, entered a content partnership with Microsoft for the launch of their then mobile device called the Pocket PC, and led content conferences with tech leaders like Mark Cuban describing the future of television on the Internet. Kling went on to receive the Prix Italia Rai TV award nomination, appeared at Natpe, LA Screenings, and Mip-TV. Kling now heads Heywood Kling Productions, the company his father founded in the 1970s to produce award winning television and theatrical projects including Rainbow Brite, Cabbage Patch Kids First Christmas, and handle projects with the Texaco Star Theatre starring Milton Berle.Under his leadership, Anthony has expanded Heywood Kling Productions from scripted into also unscripted programming.