Entertainment industry veteran and multi Image Award® winner Jesse Collins is the executive producer of the critically-acclaimed film, The New Edition Story, a biopic on the boy band that first aired as a 3-part mini-series on BET in January 2017 and posted record ratings for the network and attracted nearly 30 million viewers. Also on the scripted side, Collins executive produced the company’s most recent limited TV series, The Bobby Brown Story. The mini-series picked up where The New Edition Story left off and chronicled the talented but troubled singer’s exit from the popular ’80s boy band through his solo success and tabloid-fodder marriage to pop icon Whitney Houston. It debuted on BET in September 2018 as the highest rated non-tentpole program on BET since The New Edition Story aired the previous year. Previously, Collins was executive producer of BET’s hit TV series Real Husbands of Hollywood starring Kevin Hart that ran for 5 seasons. The company’s current TV series is American Soul, the story about the struggle to make the dream of Soul Train come true. Set in the early 70’s, filled with music, dance, fashion and glamour, this is the untold story of the launch of the first nationally-syndicated Black music show and what happened when the music stopped. The series ended its first season as the #1 new cable scripted drama for African Americans 18-49 and is set to air its second season for BET in 2020.On the unscripted side, Collins and his team have also produced award-winning programming including the BET Awards, BET Honors, UNCF’s An Evening of Stars, ABFF Awards, Soul Train Awards, Love & Happiness: An Obama Farewell, Black Girls Rock! and the BET Hip Hop Awards. Collins is also a producer for the iconic Grammy Awards and executive producer of VH1 shows Dear Mama and Hip Hop Squares, HBO’s Amanda Seales I Be Knowin’, BET’s Sunday Best and its upcoming shows—Netflix’s Rhythm & Flow and Country Music Channel’s Nashville Squares.