Geoffrey Darby (born April 15, 1953) is a media executive, television producer, director, and writer. He was the co-creator of children's
sketch comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is ...
''
You Can't Do That on Television'' and was a writer and director for the show's first five seasons.
Career
Darby co-created the
game show
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''
Double Dare'' for
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television television channel, channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its List of assets owned by Param ...
and hosted the unaired
pilot
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.
Some of Darby's other credits include the 1983 American sketch comedy TV show
''Don't Look Now'', ''
UFO Kidnapped
''UFO Kidnapped'' is a 1983 Nickelodeon production created by Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby. It was originally going to be a series and although the pilot aired on Nickelodeon, the series was not picked up. It used many of the cast members fro ...
'', ''
Clarissa Explains It All'', and ''Finders Keepers''.
During his career, Darby has been a Senior Vice-President at
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television television channel, channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its List of assets owned by Param ...
, joining the channel in 1984. He has also been Executive Vice President of Programming for
The Weather Channel, Executive Vice President of
CBS, and President of Production and Convergence for New York-based
Oxygen Media Inc. and has had senior positions at
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.
He has won three
Cable ACE Award
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s, two
Clio Awards, a
Peabody Award
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and a
Dupont Award
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.
Writing credits
References
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1953 births
Algonquin College alumni
American television executives
CableACE Award winners
Canadian male screenwriters
Canadian television directors
Canadian television producers
Carleton University alumni
Living people
Nickelodeon executives
Peabody Award winners