David Jablin Email & Phone Number

David Jablin is a critically acclaimed, award-winning producer & director who was one of the pioneers of original programming for Pay-Cable. He created and produced the gound-breaking comedy anthology series, “Likely Stories” for HBO/Cinemax, which featured the directing debuts of Rob Reiner, Danny DeVito, Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal Penelope Spheeris, and Harry Shearer. Jablin produced Showtime Network's first original movie, “The Ratings Game” which starred Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. The project marked DeVito's feature directing debut, as well as garnering a WGA Award for Best Original TV Comedy Movie, and an International TV Movie Festival Award for Best Comedy. During Jablin's long-term exclusive association with the Showtime Network, he continued to produce and direct unique comedy films and specials that received multiple ACE Awards and achieved both critical & ratings successes for the premium channel. His film, “Public Enemy #2” was selected by Time Magazine as one of the 10 Best of TV for the year. The program was nominated for four CableAce awards including “Best Director” for Jablin. It also won the international “Cine Golden Eagle” award for best television comedy. His production of Larry Gelbart’s “Mastergate” was named the Best Television Movie Of The Year by Entertainment Weekly. The Showtime comedy special, “That Time of The Month” was heralded as a “comedy classic” by the LA Times. The program was nominated for 3 CableAce Awards including “Best Director” for Jablin. Following this string of satirical successes Showtime signed Jablin exclusively to Executive Produce a series of original “National Lampoon” movies for the network. The series was praised by Variety for returning the Lampoon to its former hey-day of biting humor and cutting edge satire.Jablin is currently developing the feature film satire, “High Alert,” to be directed by, Norman Jewison. Jablin also has several new media projects in development as well.

Listed skills include Comedy, Satire, Producing Comedy, Directing Comedy, and 5 others.