Mark Burnett

Born in London, England, on July 17, 1960, James Mark Burnett is a British author, director, TV, and filmmaker. He is the son of Jean and Archie Burnett; both were an employee at Ford Motors factory. He was brought up in Dagenham. He entered in the British Army at the age of 17 and turned into a Section Commander in the Parachute Regiment.

He presented with the third Battalion, Parachute Regiment in C Company and saw activity amid the Falklands War from 1978 to 1982. Burnett shifted to Los Angeles in October of 1982, where he filled in as a caretaker and T-shirt sales representative on close-by Venice Beach.

In the mid-1990s. Burnett thought about the Eco-Challenge, a global outrageous sports competition. It first aired in 1995; the Eco-Challenge TV arrangement highlighted blended sex groups in strenuous multisport games underlining environmental consciousness esprit de corps.

The Eco-Challenge: Morocco gained a Banff Rockie and Sports Emmy Award. He married Dianne J. Valentine and had two sons Cameron and James. Later, he divorced her and married Roma Downey.

Burnett obtained the American rights to Survivor, a European demonstrate that offered, as Eco-Challenge, dramatic race settings and included contenders under difficult conditions in 1998. The show appeared in 2000 and was a quick hit. Many acknowledged it for making the genre of reality TV in the United States.

With Burnett filling in an official maker, Survivor was reliably a standout amongst the most-watched programs in the nation. After a progression of shows that fought to discover audience including The Restaurant in 2003– 04, which chronicled the turbulent existence of a Manhattan diner, Burnett discovered accomplishment in 2004 with The Apprentice.

The program rotated around goal-oriented applicants competing for getting a job with billionaire real-estate magnate Donald Trump Donald Trump, full name Donald John Trump, is an i >> Read More... . In 2008, Burnett made The Celebrity Apprentice, which highlighted certainly well-known performers and other celebrities, for example, columnist Piers Morgan and humourist Joan Rivers Joan Alexandra Molinsky was born on 8th June 1933 >> Read More... , as challengers.

Burnett kept on delivering a large number of shows, including Rock Star: INXS, a scan for the new lead artist of the band INXS in 2005 and The Contender, which took after a gathering of youthful boxers as they went up against each other from 2005 to 2009.

In 2007, the show Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?, facilitated by entertainer Jeff Foxworthy where the participant needed to accurately answer questions run of the mill of grade school; and Sarah Palin's Alaska, which chronicled the outside quest for the 2008 Republican vice presidential competitor from 2010 to 2011. The show Shark Tank Shark Tank is an American business reality TV show >> Read More... highlighted business visionaries contending to secure money related sponsorship from financial specialists in 2009.

The Voice was a singing competition judged by a board of expert artists, including, at different points, Pharrell Williams, Christina Aguilera On 18th December 1980, Christina Aguilera was born >> Read More... , Usher, Cee Lo Green, Gwen Stefani American singer cum fashion designer Gwen Renée St >> Read More... , and Shakira in 2011. Large numbers of the reality programs created by Burnett got Emmy Awards.

In 2016, Burnett delivered the movie Ben-Hur, which was the adaptation of Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ novel. It released on 9 August of 2016 and did not find success on box office. He has won many awards, honors, and affiliations.