Drew Levin is an Emmy Award- and Cable Ace-winning producer who has executive produced more than 3,000 hours of critically acclaimed documentary, reality and dramatic television series and specials, movies-of-the-week and miniseries, live events, game shows, and animated and live action children's programming for US networks, cable and satellite outlets and international broadcast venues.

 

Over the course of his illustrious entertainment career, Mr. Drew S Levin has successfully built private and publicly traded media companies in the US and Europe and has raised more than $100,000,000 for his companies and projects. Mr. Drew Levin has extensive reality-based and documentary credits which includes Future Quest for the PBS Network, for which he received an Emmy; Cosmos: A Special Edition, a critically acclaimed miniseries for the Chris Craft Station Group, hosted by the Nobel Prize-winning astronomer, Carl Sagan, and based upon the award-winning PBS series; Shadow Theater, hosted by Robert England (of Freddy Kruger fame), for USA Network; Hollywood Stuntmakers, FX Masters, Superstars of Action, Mysterious Forces Beyond and World's Most Mysterious Places for the Discovery Networks; and Stephen King's World of Horror for MTV. His entertainment series and specials include the long-running BBC hit series,

 

Top of the Pops, which he produced for the CBS Network; A Very Special Christmas, starring Madonna, also for the CBS Network; The Montreux Rock Festivals for the BBC, MTV and Showtime Networks; and the BRIT Awards for the BBC and MTV. Mr. Levin's dramatic-series credits include Total Recall 2070, adapted from the blockbuster feature film and produced for Showtime Networks and Polygram TV for syndication in the US, for Sky TV in the UK and for ProSieben in Germany; his well-received adaptation of Jack London's classic novel, Call of the Wild, for Animal Planet; and MTV Network's first drama series, Live Through This.

 

Among Mr. Levin's numerous movie-of-the-week credits are Earthquake in New York, one of the Fox Family Channel's highest-rated original movies; The Matthew Shepard Story for the MTV Network; and Final Jeopardy for the ABC Network. In his current position as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Initiative Productions, Mr. Drew Levin has aligned his company with exceptional independent producers spanning the globe. He has also been instrumental in developing the company's slate of global documentaries, specialty reality series and primetime network competition programs.

 

Mr. Drew S Levin has spear-headed the launch of the company, Initiative Productions, with new documentary and reality-based productions ready for worldwide distribution in the 2010 and 2011 broadcast seasons. Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses, based on the New York Times bestseller by award-winning author Bruce Feiler, aired during primetime on the 357 member stations of the PBS Network in January 2006, achieving phenomenal ratings in the top 50 metered markets.

 

Initiative Productions' creative team is currently in prinicipal photography in Turkey, Greece, Northern Africa and the Holy Land on the company's historical/archeological/travel eight-hour primetime series The Route to Christianity for the PBS Network.