Biography
Alan Mruvka is the Founder and former CEO of E! Entertainment Television and a film and television producer and writer known for Digging to China, Red Letters, The Legend of Gator Face, Pacific Blue, Embrace of the Vampire and State and Main. The American Entrepreneur is most widely known for his monumental success in revolutionizing and creating a genre of entertainment around celebrity-based television with his founding of pop culture icon E! Entertainment Television in 1984. Now an NBC/Comcast company in its 30th year valued at over $12 Billion USD, the company continues to thrive. He and E! Co-Founder Larry Namer produced and programmed over 20,000 hours of television while there.
At 28, he was the youngest CEO of a major television network in history and guided the channel to the fastest growth of a start-up cable network also in television history. After leaving E!, Mruvka created the popular network, FX Television and sold it to Fox prior to launching it.
Mruvka has also executive produced numerous television shows and movies under his "Ministry of Film", "Filmology Labs" and Filmtown banners, including USA Network's "Pacific Blue," the highest rated one hour drama on basic cable which ran for five seasons (101 episodes); the weekly boxing series "Thunderbox;" and "Confessions," Cinemax's highest rated half hour program that ran for eleven seasons. In addition to his television successes, Mruvka produced numerous successful independent feature films including the winner of the Chicago International Children's Film Festival and the prestigious "Closing-Night-Premier" at the Sundance Film Festival, "Digging to China," starring Kevin Bacon and Evan Rachel Wood, and directed by Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton. He also produced HBO's "Red Letters" starring Peter Coyote, Nastasia Kinski, Fairuza Balk, Ernie Hudson and Jeremy Piven; "The Legend of Gatorface" Showtime's highest rated family film to date; and the critically acclaimed "State and Main," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, William H. Macy and Sara Jessica Parker, and directed by acclaimed writer David Mamet.
Mruvka is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Alan Mruvka Company, a real estate development company with a focus on creating destination projects and urban redevelopment and specializes in self-storage, commercial, and residential development in New York, New Jersey, California and Nevada.
