T.O. Bobe

Founding member of the literary circles Litere (1993-1995) and Central (1992-1993) and of the students' magazine Litere. After obtaining his B.A. degree in Romanian and Latin at Bucharest University in 1995, he worked as a literary secretary for theater. Between 1996 and 2001 we worked as a writer for ProTV and MediaVision, starting with the first and famous morning show of ProTV: "Ora 7, buna dimineata" (It's 7 o'clock, good morning!"). The show's impact on the TV audience was huge, boosting the popularity of the host, Florin Calinescu, due to the quiz-show segment testing audience fidelity for ProTV's programs by funny and intelligent questions inspired by the programs of the day before. The audience awareness campaign continued later on with the weekend show "Te uiti si cistigi" ("Watch and win"). The following years, ProTV launched several quiz and game shows, which proved immensely popular: "Stii si cistigi" ("Know and win"), "Risti si cistigi" ("Jeopardy"), "Pretul corect" ("Price is right"), "Roata norocului" ("Wheel of Fortune"), and even a soccer-inspired show, called "Sut si cistigi" ("Kick and win"). He was the main writer of all of them, sometimes also an assistant producer. He was also involved in all ProTV's anniversary shows, on Dec 1st and on all other events produced by MediaVision and ProTV. Between 1999 and 2001 he was one of the regular screenwriters of Scenario, the script development company of MediaProPictures. Here, he wrote several scripts for "Ministerul comediei", the company's largest and most difficult show (comedy live, 2 to 3.5 hours on Sundays). Between 2002 and 2003 he became one of the regular writers of the series "In familie" broadcast by PrimaTV. Since then, he has been mainly working on his own projects, which brought him several literary fellowships in Germany and Romania. In 2001 he won a Eureka Trans Europe Script Prize with Ana-Valentina Florescu, for their scripts "Getting together" and "Morgan ReCollection". In 1999, his poetry book "Bucla" won the Debut Prize of Univers Publishing House and the National Prize for Poetry Debut.