Video Interview with Mark Gordon 

NEW YORK: Producer Mark Gordon talks to World Screen about the enduring appeal of procedural series, which, even in a television landscape filled with buzzworthy serialized shows, continue to satisfy broad swaths of the audience, in the U.S. and around the world.

Mark Gordon has been the driving force behind dozens of feature film and television projects. Through his label, The Mark Gordon Company, his credits for the big screen include Saving Private Ryan, The Day After Tomorrow and, more recently, Steve Jobs. Gordon has been most prolific as a producer or executive producer for the small screen, selling shows to broadcast networks, basic-cable channels and premium pay services. Among this list are Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice and Quantico for ABC; Army Wives for Lifetime; the Criminal Minds franchise for CBS; Ray Donovan for Showtime; and for this season, Conviction and Designated Survivor for ABC.

Designated Survivor, starring Kiefer Sutherland, is one of the top-rated shows on ABC and one of the few breakout hits so far this season. It is also one of the first shows to come out of the independent production company Gordon formed early in 2015 with Entertainment One (eOne). Under the terms of the agreement, eOne took a stake in The Mark Gordon Company and also set up a new venture, with Gordon serving as CEO, which finances and produces film, network, cable and digital premium content that eOne distributes.

The international market is not new to Gordon, who, as he explains to World Screen, has been financing and producing projects with partners from Europe and Asia for many years.

This interview is available with subtitles in Spanish, Mandarin and French.