Geoffrey Darby (born April 15, 1953) is a media executive, television producer, director, and writer. He was the co-creator of children's

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'' 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

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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

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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

, 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

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s, two Clio Awards, a

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

and a

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Writing credits

References

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