John Platt

Award-winning Writer/Producer/Director, John Platt began his showbiz career right out of college as a Video Game Writer/Designer at the San Diego company RDI, which created the hit laser disc games Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. At the same time, he was continuing to write screenplays. Platt and co-writer Roy Langsdon were hired to write their first paid film script on Halloween, 1985...a talking dog movie for producer Chris Whittaker, called Police Dog. That film was never produced, but is believed to have inspired the later Jim Belushi hit K-9. The Police Dog assignment earned Platt & Langsdon their first agent, and the pair went on to write a number of low-budget feature films, including the cult-classic Lambada movie "The Forbidden Dance".

Between screenplays, Platt also went into television, writing and producing shows for E! Entertainment Television and the Sci-Fi Channel. It was on a Sci-Fi project called "Masters of Fantasy" that Platt met later collaborator, producer Jon Kroll, and the two became fast friends.

Kroll pulled Platt into reality TV in 2001. Platt then went on to help produce the second season of The Amazing Race, where he was the only story producer to circumnavigate the globe that season.

Platt was also highly influential in the 'celeb-reality' phenomenon, as a producer on the first season of The Surreal Life, a series that spawned more spin-offs than almost any other show in history.

He became the Co-Executive Producer of "Big Brother" on season 7's …