JIM PARATORE
(Executive Producer)

Highly respected television veteran and Emmy® Award-winning producer Jim Paratore serves as executive producer of "The Bonnie Hunt Show." Paratore's production company, paraMedia inc., will be producing the talk show in association with Telepictures Productions. The full-service television production company also has an exclusive overall deal with the Warner Bros. Television Group.

Paratore brings over 20 years of experience in daytime television to "The Bonnie Hunt Show." He successfully launched the Emmy® Award-winning talk shows "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "The Tyra Banks Show" and continues to serve as an executive producer on "Ellen."

Previously, Paratore served as President, Telepictures Productions, since 1992, and as Executive Vice President, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution since 2002. In his post at Telepictures Productions, Paratore is credited with building the non-scripted production division into one of the industry's top producer of first-run, syndicated daily shows and also established itself as a versatile supplier in the network primetime reality business. As Executive Vice President, WBDTD, Paratore expanded his responsibilities to include the day-to-day oversight of one of the industry's largest distribution operations of first-run and off-network programming.

During his time at the helm of Telepictures, Paratore oversaw the development and launch of some of the company's most successful productions, including syndicated series "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," "The Tyra Banks Show," "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," "Extra," "Jenny Jones," "Judge Mathis," "Change of Heart," "elimiDate," "Street Smarts" and primetime series "The Bachelor," "The Bachelorette," "High School Reunion," "Steve Harvey's Big Time," "The Starlet" and "The Real Gilligan's Island." Paratore was also responsible for the launch of TMZ.com.

paraMedia's primary focus is on first-run syndicated programming, produced in association with Telepictures Productions. paraMedia also produces primetime non-scripted reality programs and low-budget scripted series in association with the recently launched Warner Horizon Television, as well as new media content for digital platforms.

While at WBDTD, Paratore's distribution responsibilities included oversight of the station sales activities. These divisions drew from such production entities/libraries as Warner Bros. Television, Warner Horizon Television, Telepictures Productions, Warner Bros. Animation, the Lorimar Television library, feature films from Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Independent Pictures and the Turner Entertainment library, which includes classic MGM and RKO feature films and more.

Prior to being named President, Telepictures Productions, Paratore served for two years as Senior Vice President, Lorimar-Telepictures. Before that, he was Senior Vice President, First-Run Development, Lorimar-Telepictures from 1988 to1990 and Vice President, Production, Lorimar-Telepictures from 1987 to 1988.

Prior to joining Lorimar-Telepictures in 1987, Paratore was Director, Programming and Production at WTVJ-TV (Miami); Program Director at WPLG-TV (Miami); and served as Advertising and Promotion Manager at WJXT-TV (Jacksonville, FL) and at KALB-TV (Alexandria, LA).

Paratore is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Communications.