Michael Davies (television producer)
Michael Davies (born 3 March 1966) is a United States-based British television game shows producer.
Davies wrote a blog about the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2006 FIFA World Cup for ESPN.com.
Contents
- 1 Early years and family
- 2 Career
- 2.1 Men in Blazers
- 2.2 Emb*y Row
- 3 Personal life
- 4 Filmography
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Early years and family
Davies grew up in Blackheath, London and attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, graduating from the University of Edinburgh. He is the younger brother of opera singer Rebecca de Pont Davies and screenwriter William Davies.
Career
Men in Blazers
Beginning in 2011, Davies and co-host and ESPNFC.com writer Roger Bennett, brought the Men in Blazers podcast to Grantland.com. The weekly podcast includes *ysis of recent matches in the Premier League as well as coverage of the UEFA Champions League and various international fixtures, specifically the United States men's national soccer team games.
The duo were invited to provide *ysis and humorous segments for ESPN live from Rio de Janeiro during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, especially from Bob Ley's "Panic Room". The duo did a live show from Portland, Oregon for the 2014 MLS All-Star Game, interviewing the likes of Clint Dempsey and Alex Morgan while raising money for MLS Works and the Wounded Warrior Project.
In September 2014, they conducted a New York City FC exclusive interview with Frank Lampard after Lampard joined NYCFC from Chelsea. Fox Sports announced in April 2014 they had cancelled the Davies-produced program Crowd Goes Wild, a daily sports talk show from the national sports network Fox Sports 1.
Ahead of the 2014–15 Premier League season, NBC Sports signed Davies and Bennett from ESPN for its English Premier League coverage and confirmed that Men in Blazers would have its own half-hour television show on Monday nights at 10:pm EST, starting 22 September 2014.
Davies and Bennett host the Men in Blazers channel on EA Sports Talk Radio on the official 2014 FIFA World Cup video game, with Andy Goldstein of TalkSPORT and Darke hosting the only other channel.
Emb*y Row
As president and CEO of Emb*y Row, a New York City-based television production company that is a unit of Sony Pictures Television, he was the executive producer of Wife Swap. He produced ESPN's 2 Minute Drill, VH1's World Series of Pop Culture, CBS's Power of 10, and the GSN originals: Chain Reaction, Grand Slam, and GSN's revival of The Newlywed Game, as well as the US version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
In 2021, Sony appointed Davies to serve as interim executive producer of Jeopardy!, after Mike Richards was let go in light of controversy surrounding Richards' plan to permanently replace the late Alex Trebek as host. On April 14, 2022, Davies announced that he would be taking over the position full-time.
Personal life
Davies splits his time between homes in New York and Los Angeles. He recently divorced his second wife, Claude. He is a fan of Chelsea F.C.
Filmography
References
External links
- Michael Davies at IMDb
- ESPN blog archive of Michael Davies