Industry Standard 49: Jon Murray

JONATHAN MURRAY (CEO, OWNER, AND CHAIRMAN OF BUNIM-MURRAY PRODUCTIONS) IS an Emmy award winning executive producer, Widely credited with inventing the modern reality television genre, With the launch of The Real World (MTV) almost 3 decades ago. Together with his partner, the late Mary Ellis-Bunim who passed away in 2004, Murray grew the company from a two-person shop into an industry powerhouse, launching some of the most innovative unscripted entertainment on television. They created and executive produced an incredible array of HIT PROGRAMMING including the first docu-reality series (“The Real World”), the first reality game show (“Road Rules”), the first reality sitcom (“The Simple Life”), and the first reality soap opera (“Starting Over”).  A few of their other seminal television shows that moved the needle were “project runway,” “Making the Band,” “Love Cruise,” and “Bad Girls Club,” as well as the award winning feature films “Pedro” for MTV and “Valentine Road” & “Autism: The Musical” for HBO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.