Frank Hagan

For more than 25 years, Emmy nominated producer Frank Hagan has worked in national and local television producing everything from: morning and nighttime shows in Washington, DC, New York City and Atlanta; nationally talk syndicated shows; prime time reality cable documentaries; worked at an experimental all talk TV station in Atlanta, ran a small cable broadcast network and worked in development in the reality TV area (and occasionally scripted). His reputation for coming up with solid and marketable program ideas stemmed from his years in Talk TV where you had to come up with a new show idea each week, 39 weeks a year! Over time, his contacts and references in TV now runs from top Execs at networks and premium cable to those in the film industry. Frank's core background began in the fast paced national Talk TV world of the 90's. His name appeared on such shows as Morton Downey Jr.; Cop Talk with Sonny Grosso; Everyday with Joan Lunden; Charles Perez; Oprah; Donahue; Danny Bonaduce and he worked for such production companies as Multimedia, Group W, Tribune, NBC, Westinghouse and Harpo. He was nominated for an Emmy for his producing work on Donahue. As the world of 90's talk moved into trash talk, he stepped away and began producing in other areas. He went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to work for Astro TV. When he returned, his scripted series EARTHBOUND (now called DCV Chronicles), a science fiction program was optioned by the animation house Film Roman (The Simpson, Futurama) as their first live action series. He also had options on projects he created including a talk show, a game show, three reality series; a crime clip show and a scripted project called "The Cruisers" based on the 80's film "Eddie and the Cruisers" for which he optioned the book and movie rights. In 1999 he worked for the legendary Woody Fraser as the Co-Executive in Charge of Production for I-BASH, a $20 million dollar, ten-hour live and Internet, two-hour edited for television concert at the MGM Grand starring The Who, KISS, Lee Ann Rhymes, Faith Hill, Tony Bennett, Sugar Ray, Natalie Cole and many other top performers. When he joined Creative Differences, he worked as the Supervising Producer for the pilot Life's Too Short for Discovery Channel and on the reality court series "Second Verdict" for NBC / Paxnet. For Termite Art Productions / Lion's Gate TV, he produced and wrote episodes of The System for Court TV and also worked with GSN where he field directed and produced a number of projects, including ones on the MIT Blackjack Team and NASCAR. In early 2006, Frank took the helm of QTN as Programming Director and General Manager, and was able to institute some changes to the programming schedule on all platforms and create a block of advertiser driven programs. QTN folded due to debt incurred by the previous management so after, he took the publicly traded shell and helped create (as the) VP of Television Production and Development, a new publicly traded company called Circa Pictures and Production Co., Intl. Inc. where he created and is marketed six reality TV programs and two scripted projects along with two feature films that he wrote. This included "Allison Legacy Racing, Real Cars, Real Kids, Real Racing." After Circa, he created and produced a "kids and sports" pilot called "Sports Angels" starring sports legend Pat Summerall then worked with Media Partners to work in the world of 3D production and development of broadcast television and IPTV. Frank is now working development on a variety of projects as co-owner of RRE Media, LLC. Currently with RRE, he has 4 reality shows in development, a TV film and recently "had a lot of fun" as the co-exec producer and co-owner of a one hour talk pilot for Relativity / Bite Sized TV called "Politics is a Drag", a cutting edge, funny and highly political oriented show hosted by Drag Queens Lady Bunny, Coco Peru and Ester Goldberg, that proved the point "there's a lot of talent hiding under that wig!" Most recently, Frank worked with many hats as Production Coordinator, Line Producer and Producer of "The Weekly Show." This innovative new comedy 'talk / news magazine' improv show is a pilot for TV One starring "Groundlings: The Black Experience." Its test run aired August 25th 2015 at 11:00 PM EST. Then he went on to co develop and create Fast Tow with Matt and Froy (reality pilot) - shot in Las Vegas. Currently, he is one of the regular panelists - the "Demons of Decadence" on Outlaw Internet Radio with Magic Matt Alan and is writing and producing a weekly version of Politics is a Drag (three minute video versions) on Facebook that averages 20,000 reaches, 10,000+ viewers per week and 15,000+ on Daily Motion.