Senior Vice President, Production
NBC/Universal Television
With a career spanning 35 years at Universal Television, Richard Ross has served as senior vice president, production, since September 1998, overseeing the production of all first-run syndication strips and weekly series. Since the acquisition of Universal by NBC in 2004, he has overseen over 300 hours of scripted network content and thousands of hours of talk shows by Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, Meredith Vieira, Harry Connick Jr., and Steve Wilkos. Most recent scripted show are La Brea, Young Rock, and Bumper in Berlin. All of which were international productions. He has overseen productions in; Budapest, Morocco, Toronto, Vancouver, Melbourne, Brisbane/Gold Coast, London, Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Jamacia.
Ross joined Universal in 1989 as a financial representative. Three years later, he was upped to production executive, where he oversaw a series of 20 television movies produced for first-run syndication. In 1995, he was promoted to vice president, production, where he oversaw the successful launch of Xena – Warrior Princess and Hercules.
Previously, he was a production executive for Glen Larson Prods., where he contributed to the series The Highwaymen and the NBC two-hour pilot Rhoades Raiders.
He also served as vice president, production, for The Montecito Company in Los Angeles, where he produced the critically acclaimed productions of Otherwise Engaged, The Shadow Box, and the West Coast Premiere of Michael Frayn’s Alphabetical Order. Off Broadway, he produced the Obie nominated play Manuevers.
He began his career in 1977 as a writer and producer for the Jerry Lewis Telethon where he oversaw all interstitials material and all filmed public service announcements which garnered several awards.
Currently, he serves on the Board of the Memphis and Shelby Film Commission and the Playhouse on the Square. This summer he will be overseeing “We Were Liars” for Amazon Prime in Nova Scotia and The Hunting Party in Vancouver for NBC_TV