Projects

At Joke Productions, we pride ourselves on putting storytelling first. This has allowed us to make a wide-range of critically acclaimed television and film. Our large-scale reality competition shows, intimate documentaries, crime and paranormal reenactment shows, comedic half-hours and dramatic follow-docs are made with love, passion, and hands-on craftsmanship. Add in our proprietary in-house post-production and visual effects pipeline, and there are simply no storytelling limits at Joke Productions.

 

Operation Undercover (MAX / Investigation Discovery)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Operation Undercover is a brand new Joke Productions true crime series for MAX and Investigation Discovery. It stars legendary former undercover federal agent Lou Valoze. Dive into the invisible stings run by heroic cops who keep us safe with breathless, life and death operations.

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Devil In Suburbia (Investigation Discovery)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Devil In Suburbia is the latest Joke Productions series for Investigation Discovery. This new documentary series examines shocking cases from the point of view of ordinary people who lived through these events, and never-before-seen home video.

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Unraveled from Joke Productions for Discovery+

Unraveled (Discovery+)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Unraveled from Joke Productions is a true crime project, made for Discovery+. The investigative series features true crime journalists Alexis Linkletter and Billy Jensen. It is a hybrid TV series and podcast exploring riveting cases, beginning with a brand new angle on The Long Island Serial Killer. Prepare to be shocked.

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Unmasking a Killer (CNN/HLN)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Unmasking a Killer is a new Joke Productions true crime series made for CNN and HLN. It takes viewers inside the investigation, the case files and the mind of The Golden State Killer – a man believed to be the most prolific uncaught rapist and serial killer in the nation.

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Don't Trust Andrew Mayne from Joke Productions

Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne (A&E)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne is a new kind of reality TV show starring master magician and ultimate prankster Andrew Mayne.

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Deadly Recall with Pat Postiglione from Joke Productions for Investigation Discovery.

Deadly Recall (Investigation Discovery)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Deadly Recall is a new Joke Productions true crime series made for Investigation Discovery. The show is built around acclaimed Nashville detective Pat Postiglione and his amazing crime-fighting tool: a photographic memory.

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Deadly Recall Season 2 (Investigation Discovery)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Deadly Recall returns for an all new season on Investigation Discovery. Pat Postiglione and his incredible photographic memory are back – and the mysteries will astound you.

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Dying to do Letterman (Theatrical Release)

Directors, Executive Producers, Production Company

Award-winning feature film, invited by the International Documentary Association to compete for Academy Award® consideration. When 35 year old comedian Steve Mazan learns he’s dying of cancer, he dedicates his life to living his dream: performing stand-up comedy on The Late Show with David Letterman. Produced, directed, and edited by company owners Joke and Biagio.

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Joke Productions Documentary Series Caged on MTV

Caged (MTV)

Executive Producers, Production Company

MTV’s CAGED is a documentary series that chronicles a group of recent high school graduates looking for a way out of small-town Louisiana. Their escape hatch? MMA fighting. For these modern day gladiators, every day is a fight to break free from the past, and to find their future.

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Three Days to Live (Oxygen)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Three Days to Live is a new Joke Productions true crime series made for Oxygen. Additionally, it is a banner series in Oxygen’s new Crime Timerebrand. The show tells harrowing stories of law enforcement working to save abducted women. Those who don’t return home within three days almost never do. Can police find her in time?

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Joke Productions Reality Series Rhett and Link: Commercial Kings on IFC

Commercial Kings (IFC)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Original reality TV series airing on IFC, Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings has made The Observer’s Very Short List, Huffington Post, and one of the seasons featured spots has over 16 million views on YouTube. The ten-part series involves the two titular filmmakers creating low-budget local commercials with hilarious results.

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True Life Presents: Secrets, Lies and Sex from Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina

True Life Presents: Secrets, Lies, & Sex (MTV)

Executive Producers, Production Company

What if you were living a double life? Two young African-American men expose what it’s like to live life on “the down low” in this revealing documentary from Joke Productions, proudly airing under MTV’s True Life Presents banner.

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Reality Competition Series Scream Queens from Joke Productions on VH1

Scream Queens (VH1)

Executive Producers, Production Company

“The best horror-themed reality show in existence.”
Tribeca Film

In this epic reality television competition show, 10 aspiring actresses vie for a break-out role in Saw VI. Judged by Guardians of the Galaxywriter/director James Gunn, Saw star Shawnee Smith and legendary acting coach John Homa, contestants enter Scream Queen boot camp to chase a life-changing prize.

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Joke Productions Reality Competition Scream Queens Returns to VH1 for Season 2

Scream Queens Season 2 (VH1)

Executive Producers, Production Company

Scream Queens 2: The Sequel! 10 aspiring actresses compete for a break-out role in Saw 3D. Judged by Horror’s bad-boy writer/director Tim Sullivan, acclaimed actress Jaime King, and famed acting coach John Homa, the girls face challenges featuring the mo-cap suit from James Cameron’s Avatar, explosives experts from top Hollywood blockbusters, and even act on the legendary Universal Studios Back Lot.

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Snapped: She Made Me Do It (Oxygen)

Executive Producers, Production Company

The new original crime series from Joke Productions comes to Oxygen under the mega-hit “Snapped” banner. These ladies didn’t pull the trigger…but did they pull the strings?

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She Made Me Do It Season 2 from Joke Productions, Inc.

She Made Me Do It Season 2 (Oxygen)

Executive Producers, Production Company

The hit original crime series from Joke Productions returns to Oxygen for season 2. More shocking stories, incredible access, and exclusive interviews. One crime. Two versions. Who do you believe?

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Joke Productions Reality Series Foody Call on Style Network

Foody Call (Style Network)

Executive Producers, Production Company

A reality television dating format turning food into foreplay. We help struggling relationships go to the next level by transforming duds into cooking casanovas. Hosted by Rossi Moreale and Michele Merkin, this show helps our desperate bachelor clean up his place, gives him a makeover and teaches him how to cook an impressive meal, whether that is to get a girlfriend back, ask her to move in, or pop the big question.

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Ghost Inside My Child Season 1 From Joke Productions

Ghost Inside My Child (BIOGRAPHY)

Executive Producers, Production Company

What would you do if your child told you they missed their “other mom” from a past life? Or remembered intricate details of dying in plane crash in World War II that, upon researching, you learned to be absolutely true?

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Ghost Inside My Child Season 2 (LMN)

Executive Producers, Production Company

After breaking viewership records on BIO, our documentary series Ghost Inside My Child returns for season 2 on LMN.

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Feature Documentary Oh Baby Now What for A&E

Oh Baby, Now What? (A&E)

Executive Producers

This feature length documentary follows a young couple who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant. How does this affect their relationship? What about their friends and roommates? Set in Silver Lake, California, Oh Baby Now What explores how an urban tribe comes together or falls apart when a baby crashes the party. After all, not everyone is ready for a baby in their early twenties.

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Reality TV Series Beauty and The Geek Co-Executive Producers Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina

Beauty & the Geek (The CW)

Co-Executive Producers

In this reality TV social experiment, we pair socially impaired but academically brilliant guys with socially gifted but academically impaired girls. They must work together, teaching each other everything they know. The winning team walks away with $250,000 and will no longer be just Beauty & the Geek.

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Reality TV Special Science of Love from Co-Executive Producers Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina

Science of Love (NBC)

Co-Executive Producers

In this reality TV social experiment, we pair socially impaired but academically brilliant guys with socially gifted but academically impaired girls. They must work together, teaching each other everything they know. The winning team walks away with $250,000 and will no longer be just Beauty & the Geek.

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