Hotchkiss Industries’ President, Jon Hotchkiss, a 14 time Emmy nominee, is perhaps, the single most prolific creator of factual entertainment for American Television. Hotchkiss alone is the creator of: My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad (NBC), Punkin Chunkin’ (Science Channel), Invasion of the Christmas Lights (TLC), The Truth About Sex (Playboy TV), This vs That (Discovery International), Bullseye (FOX) and Naked & Afraid (Discovery). His cable pilots include Best In Town (Animal Planet), The Smartest Guy in Town (GSN), Human Animal (Science Channel), Show & Tell (TLC).
Hotchkiss has partnered with the industry’s biggest names, including: Mark Burnett, Reveille, Warner Horizon, Ashton Kutcher, Merv Griffin, NBC, Playboy TV, Comedy Central, NBC, Discovery, TLC, and Science Channel.
When the original Punkin Chunkin’ first premiered, it was the highest rated show on the network until that point in Science Channel history.
Original episodes of My Dad is Better than Your Dad were produced in more than 20 international territories. And This vs That was sold into a dozen foreign territories.
Hotchkiss was interviewed for the premiere of the NBC News magazine, Rock Center, hosted by Brian Williams for the work he did on the fastest way to board an airplane, from his series, This vs That.
Independently, his political series for YouTube, Be Less Stupid, featuring nearly 200 episodes hosted, written, produced, starring and edited by Hotchkiss, has nearly 10 million views.
Hotchkiss has done original reporting on location from more than a dozen Trump rallies, from the US/Mexico border, from the immigrant detention center in Adalento, CA, from the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino the day following the Route 91 Harvest Festival, the site of the most extensive mass shooting in modern American history, and Hotchkiss has done extensive coverage of the migrant workers in California’s Central Valley.
Hotchkiss has also contributed extensively to New York Times best selling books by Bill Maher, Arianna Huffington and Air America Radio.
Hotchkiss also created a 25 minute documentary that raised more than $25,000 for an American soldier who was critically injured in Iraq and facing homelessness.
At present, Hotchkiss is editing a documentary he began during the Covid pandemic that takes an unprecedented look at the Los Angeles homeless crisis.
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