Benjamin Noah Silverman (born August 15, 1970) is an American media executive. He is the co-CEO and chairman of the entertainment production company Propagate.

From 2007–2009, Silverman served as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios.Josef Adalian. "Silverman named NBC co-chair," Variety, May 29, 2007. He is also an Emmy, Golden Globe, Peabody, and NAACP-winning executive producer of such shows as The Office, Jane The Virgin, Ugly Betty, Marco Polo, The Tudors,The Biggest Loser, Stick, and Best Medicine.Silverman is a New York Times Best Seller author of Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of the Office—The Definitive History of the Landmark TV Show, and The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin. Silverman also produced CW's praised No Tomorrow and Apple's first television show Planet of the Apps. On July 10, 2014, The Banff World Media Festival presented Silverman with the Award of Excellence in Digital Innovation. As of the fourth quarter 2016, Silverman's most recently released feature film Hands of Stone starring Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro and Usher, and was released theatrically in North America on August 26, 2016 through The Weinstein Company. Silverman Executive Produced a number of documentaries including the Hillary for Hulu in 2020; Untold sports documentary series for Netflix; I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not for CNN; The Last First: Winter K2 for Apple; LFG for HBO Max; and Jerry West: The Logo for Prime Video.

Life and career Silverman was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He was raised in a Reform Jewish family in Manhattan where he attended Rodeph Sholom School.Malone, Michael. Silverman Searches Globe for Next Trend, Broadcasting & Cable, November 14, 2005. Silverman is a 1992 magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University, where he majored in history and belonged to the Epsilon Theta chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity. His mother, Mary (Delson) Silverman, was an actress and programming executive whose career included employment at the Disney Channel, BBC, USA Network, Lifetime Television, and Court TV. His father, Stanley Silverman, is a music composer/arranger.

He had summer internships at Warner Bros., and after college in 1993, worked at CBS and then worked for Brandon Tartikoff at New World Entertainment. He worked for the William Morris Agency starting in 1995; Silverman was in charge of the international packaging division, where he was the company's youngest division head, packaging more than 25 television series, including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Weakest Link, Big Brother, and Queer as Folk. He worked for William Morris Agency until 2002, when he left to found Reveille.

In 2007, Silverman received the P.T. Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment. Silverman is involved with multiple philanthropic endeavors, including Seeds of Peace, a group helping to foster peace among young people from adversarial cultures. In addition, Silverman sits on the Cedars-Sinai Hospital board of governors. Silverman also serves on the board of directors of Best Buddies, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing guidance and integrated employment."Ben Silverman: The Washington Scene," The Hill.

In 2008, Silverman received an Honorary Rose for lifetime achievement the Rose d'Or ceremony.

In 2009, Silverman received a Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award.

Silverman married Jennifer Cuoco, a real estate agent, in December 2010.

Reveille Silverman is the founder of Reveille, a television, film, and theater production and distribution company now owned by Shine Limited under News Corporation. He founded Reveille in 2002 in order to exploit international formats by selling them in the United States. Through his work at Reveille, he is the executive producer of such shows as NBC's The Office, The Restaurant, The Biggest Loser, and ABC's Ugly Betty, as well as several cable shows, including Nashville Star, on USA Network, 30 Days on FX, MTV's Parental Control and Date My Mom, Blow Out on Bravo, and House of Boateng on the Sundance TV."The Whole World Is Watching, and Ben Silverman Is Watching Back" , New York Times, September 17, 2006.

Journalist Michael Wolff wrote a 2001 profile of Silverman in New York Magazine a year before he founded Reveille. "In some sense, he's like those boy geniuses of the eighties and nineties who invented new financial instruments -- junk bonds and derivatives and whatnot. The discovery and marketing of a new format is really like that. It's creating something that is negotiable and transferable and that people believe in deeply -- it solves all their problems. Now, obviously, there is a certain obsolescence to these formats (with junk bonds you had inevitable bankruptcies). And Ben, of course, is already searching the world for new formats. Variety shows might be a possibility," Wolff wrote."The Missing Link", New York Magazine, June 4, 2001.

NBC

Silverman was named co-chairman of NBC Entertainment in 2007 (along with Marc Graboff), succeeding Kevin Reilly. That same year, Silverman was the first producer since Norman Lear, 34 years earlier, to have two shows nominated for an Emmy in the best comedy category (The Office and Ugly Betty)."Silverman the peacock at NBC-Uni's pre-Emmy party" He is credited for his role in saving the critically acclaimed but low-rated NBC drama Friday Night Lights by striking an innovative deal with DirecTV."Ben Silverman, 'Friday Night Lights' Savior: Saved Show By 'Yelling At A Lot Of People'" The satellite television provider agreed to take on a substantial amount of the show's production budget in exchange for exclusive first-window airing rights on its 101 channel. NBC would then repurpose the episodes to be aired on the network later in the season."'Friday Night Lights' Gets 26-Episode Order From DirecTV, NBC"

Electus On July 27, 2009, Silverman announced he was leaving NBC to form a new company, Electus, in partnership with Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, that would produce and distribute programs across media platforms, for television, the Web and mobile devices. As part of its inception, IAC partnered Electus with the interactive comedy portal CollegeHumor. In January 2010, Silverman and Electus partnered with Jason Bateman and Will Arnett to launch their sponsor-driven advertising and digital production company DumbDumb."Bateman, Arnett Form DumbDumb" Variety Electus also has partnerships with 5x5 and DiGa. On May 8, 2014, The CW announced a first season order for Silverman's new television show Jane The Virgin."CW Picks Up ‘The Flash’, ‘iZombie’, ‘Jane the Virgin’ & ‘The Messengers’ To Series", Deadline.com, May 8, 2014.

Acting roles Silverman had a cameo appearance in the first episode of the fifth season of the television show Entourage. Silverman read a single line in which he expressed annoyance at Johnny Drama wasting his time.

Silverman appeared in four episodes during the ninth season of the television show The Office, starting with "Here Comes Treble"; he played Isaac, one of Jim's business partners.

Credits + List of Silverman productions Year Production Role 2003–2004 The Restaurant Executive producer 2003–2008 Nashville Star Executive producer 2005–2008 30 Days Executive producer 2005–2011 The Office Executive producer 2005–2011 The Biggest Loser Co-creator / Executive producer 2006–2011 Ugly Betty Executive producer 2007–2010 The Tudors Co-creator / Executive producer 2008–2009 Kath & Kim Executive producer 2010 MacGruber Co-executive producer 2011–2016 Mob Wives Executive producer 2011–2015 King of the Nerds Executive producer 2013 Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls Executive producer 2014 Killer Women Executive producer 2014–2019 Jane the Virgin Executive producer 2014–2016 Marco Polo Executive producer2015 Breaking Greenville Executive producer2016 Hands of Stone Executive producer 2016 No Tomorrow Executive producer 2017 Planet of the Apps Executive producer 2017–2018 Lore Executive producer 2018 November 13: Attack on Paris Producer 2018–2022 Charmed Executive producer 2018–2021 Haunted Executive producer 2019–2022 Blood & Treasure Executive producer 2019–2021 Prank Encounters Executive producer 2019–presentKings of Pain Executive producer 2020 Broke Executive producer 2021-2022 Our Kind of People Executive producer 2021-2022American Song Contest Executive producer 2023 Untold: Jake Paul the Problem Child Executive producer 2024 Reunion Producer 2024 Incoming Producer

References

External links

"TV's Hot Property", Tufts e-news, July 02, 2003

"Meet Ben's Boring Successor"