MHP Scores New Production Deals

SAN FRANCISCO, October 18:
Michael Hoff Productions (MHP) has announced that it will produce Chain Gang
Girls for WE tv and Climate
Quiz with Bill Nye for The Weather
Channel, for broadcast in the first quarter of 2008 and the fourth quarter of
2007, respectively.

Shot over a six-week
period in the Arizona desert, Chain Gang Girls is a two-hour observational documentary following
the lives of incarcerated women shackled and working together on an actual
prison chain gang.

Climate Quiz, a series of interstitials, follows Bill Nye, the
“Science Guy,” as he asks climate-related questions to people on the street in
Los Angeles and New York.

“We’re excited to be
working with two solid brands on such diverse subjects as prison and weather,”
said Michael Hoff, the company’s president and executive producer. “The chain
gang stories are amazing and truly show how each of us is only a hair’s breath
away from the wrong side of the law. On the flip side, Climate Quiz presents great ‘water cooler’ information about
the earth and our affect on the environment in a fun and entertaining Q&A
format.”

MHP is also seeing several
productions premiere this fall including Hooked Again: More Monster Fish, Caught Barehanded, and Fishzilla on National Geographic Channel, Green Wheels on VOOM’s Equator HD and Top 401K Mistakes on Fine Living Network.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski