- Jonathan Murray
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othername = Jon Murray
occupation =Television producer Jonathan Murray (born 1955) is an American
television producer and co-creator ofMTV 's "The Real World ", "Road Rules ", and theOxygen Network 's "The Bad Girls Club ".Biography
Murray attended
Fayetteville-Manlius High School and is currently in their Hall of Distinction. He went on to earn a degree fromMissouri School of Journalism at theUniversity of Missouri inColumbia, MO .Murray founded Bunim-Murray with partner
Mary-Ellis Bunim . Agent Mark Itkin of the William Morris Agency put the two together to develop a scripted soap opera for MTV. When that was too expensive, they decided to try an unscripted soap and the "Real World" was born."We knew within 20 minutes of shooting that we had a show," Bunim said.Murray and Bunim's company,
Bunim/Murray Productions , spearheaded thereality television genre. Among the numerous other reality programs that Murray and Bunim co-created over the years were "Road Rules, Love Cruise, Making the Band, TheReal World/Road Rules Challenge ", the reality feature film "The Real Cancun", the real-life daily syndicated "Starting Over", as well as Fox's smash hit, "The Simple Life.His niece, Hailey Murray, appeared on the daytime reality series, "Starting Over", another show he helped create, during the show's first season, with her mother, Lynnell.
ee also
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Bunim/Murray Productions
*The Real World
*Road Rules
*The Simple Life
*Starting Over
*MTV
*MTV Networks
*New Viacom
*Old Viacom
*CBS Corporation
*National Amusements
*Sumner Redstone *Shari Redstone External links
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* [http://realworld.mtv.com Official Website of The Real World]
* [http://roadrules.mtv.com Official Website of Road Rules]
* [http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/simplelife Official Website of The Simple Life]
* [http://www.bunim-murray.com Official Website of Bunim/Murray Productions]
* [http://www.mtv.com Official Website of MTV]
* [http://www.mtvn.com Official Website of MTV Networks]
* [http://www.viacom.com Official Website of Viacom]
* [http://www.cbscorporation.com Official Website of CBS Corporation]
* [http://www.national-amusements.com/ Official Website of National Amusements]
* [http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/15/news/newsmakers/redstone/ Brent Redstone]
* [http://www.journalism.missouri.edu/ Missouri School of Journalism]Persondata
NAME= Murray, Jonathan
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Television producer
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