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and President of HIP Entertainment Group. She brings to the company over
18 years of entertainment industry experience, having created, developed
and produced over 1,000 half-hours of original, primetime programming
in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Her productions, which have earned
three Emmy awards, have covered a broad range of formats including non-fiction
life style shows, documentaries, game shows, extreme sports shows, entertainment
magazines, docu-dramas, talk shows and specials. This programming has
aired on a broad range of U.S. and international networks including: USA
Networks, Nickelodeon, Fine Living, Travel Channel, BBC, E! Entertainment
Television, Discovery Networks, Fox Sports World, Cosmopolitan TV, Televisa,
TV Azteca, and Globo.
Beatriz has also served as a creative executive with several major television
networks. She was a program development and production consultant for
People and Arts, a cable channel developed jointly by Discovery Communications
and the BBC for distribution throughout Latin America. Beatriz was responsible
for designing and executing the content strategy for this start-up network,
including assembling and producing a slate of original programming. As
part of this process she was also responsible for establishing strategic
relationships with international co-production partners.
Prior to founding her independent production company, Beatriz headed the
production department for TV Azteca's Channel 7 in Mexico, during its
formative stages. In this role, she was responsible for creating 25 hours
of original prime-time programming each week, including the teenage travelogue
Rolando Ando, the movie review show Cinemania, and the late night show
El Show de Jaime Camil, among others. On the basis of these programs TV
Azteca was able to garner impressive ratings for a start-up network, even
beating the market-dominant Televisa networks with the extreme sports
show Rompiendo Récord. The popularity of these programs resulted
in their subsequent prime time cable distribution throughout Latin America
and Spain on USA Networks and the Discovery Channel.
Beatriz began her television career serving as the Executive Producer,
writer and host of En Exclusiva, an award-winning entertainment magazine
show, which aired on Televisa in Mexico and Galavision in the U.S., Europe
and Africa. Subsequently, she spent nearly ten years producing cutting-edge
programming for Televisa's youth-skewing network, Channel 5 in Mexico
City.
Beatriz is a Mexican native and got her start in the entertainment business
at age 8, when she was the host of a kids radio show in Mexico.
Doug Greiff is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of HIP Entertainment
Group. He is an eighteen-year television veteran, who has developed and
produced a variety of programming for such networks as Nickelodeon, Showtime,
TBS, Spike TV, Travel Channel, Fine Living, Discovery Kids, A&E, TV
Land, VH-1, and PBS. Prior to joining HIP, he served as Vice President
of Program Development for Nickelodeon/Nick-at-Nite, where he was responsible
for over-seeing all of the network's live action and animation television
series development, original television movies and specials. While there,
Greiff supervised a bi-coastal development team responsible for launching
such hit shows as SpongeBob SquarePants, Taina, and Brothers Garcia.
Previously, Greiff had been a Producer and Executive in Charge of Production
for Nickelodeon Productions, as well as Vice President of Television Movies
and Specials. He served as Executive Producer on the network's first two
original television movies, Cry Baby Lane and Maniac Magee, as well as
Co-Executive Producer for the Nickelodeon produced Showtime telepicture,
"Doom Runners." In addition, he oversaw the development and
production of the cable channel's six series-based TV movies, including
Kenan and Kel's Two Heads Are Better than None, The Journey of Allen Strange's
Alien Vacation, Cousin Skeeter's New Kid on the Planet, CatDog's The Great
Parent Mystery, Hey Arnold's Arnold Saves the Neighborhood, and Rocket
Power's Race Across New Zealand.
Greiff has created, developed and supervised the production of numerous
pilots, series and specials, including The Playbook and Hella-Novela for
Spike TV, The Hub for Discovery Kids, the first season of the TNN series,
Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors, the international sports series Global GUTS
for Nickelodeon, as well as the specials; And Now This with Rosie O'Donnell,
International Gamefest, Toons from Planet Orange, and Sports Theater with
Shaquille O'Neal. He has also managed Nickelodeon's Worldwide Development
Group, a consortium of international creative executives from around the
world, who developed and produced global programming for the kid's cable
network.
Prior to joining Nick, Greiff was a Producer and Development Executive
at Chauncey Street Productions, a New York-based independent television
production company specializing in comedy and children's programming.
At Chauncey Street, Greiff co-created and produced 20 episodes of Nickelodeon's
first interactive magazine show, U to U. He also developed and co-produced
two seasons of GUTS, and the Sixth Annual Kids Choice Awards, as well
as the A&E special Proctor and Bergman's The Future is Now, and the
TBS special Real News For Kids.
Earlier in his career, Greiff worked as a production and development associate
for both VH-1 and HA! -The TV Comedy Network, and on the premiere season
of the PBS hit series Where in the World is Carmen San Diego.
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HIP Entertainment Group is a Los Angeles and Baja Mexico-based diversified
entertainment company specializing in the development and exploitation
of English and Spanish language content with broad market appeal.
HIP was formed in 1995 to help media companies grow stronger by driving
Hispanic audiences to them through "inclusive" entertainment.
Our broad range of services includes; content creation, program development
and production, motion design, market and audience research, advertising
sales strategy, and business development.
The driver for all of these businesses is HIP TV, consisting of a multi-award
winning team of producers and directors who have created over 1000 half-hours
of original prime time programming for a variety of networks including;
USA Networks, Nickelodeon, Showtime, E! Entertainment Television, Spike
TV, Travel Channel, TV Land, The Discovery Channel, Discovery Health,
Discovery Kids, Fine Living, Fox Sports World, Cosmopolitan Television
Europe, DirecTV, Globo, People and Arts, Televisa and TV Azteca. This
wealth of production activity has allowed HIP to build a substantial television
library with over 800 episodes of original programming and more than 1,000
hours of raw footage which the company currently owns and controls.
Seen in over 150 million households in the USA, Latin America, Spain,
Portugal and the Caribbean, HIP TV combines a proven track record with
new concepts, captivating visuals and high production values to create
breakthrough television.