Knight Enterprises

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Knight Enterprises is an independent television production company based in Ottawa, ON, Canada. Since it began in 1996, Knight Enterprises has produced more than 400 half hours of television.

Knight Enterprises is best known for food television series including "The Great Canadian Food Show," "Table d'Hote," "Cook Like a Chef," and "Licence to Grill," "Junk Brothers," as well as the latest project, "This Food That Wine."

Both "Cook Like a Chef" and "The Great Canadian Food Show" have been nominated multiple times for James Beard Awards. They have also respectively earned several nominations for Gemini Awards. "Cook Like a Chef" was most recently nominated for Best Television Food and/or Drink Show at the World Food Media Awards as well as for a Gemini for Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Program or Series. "The Great Canadian Food Show" was most recently nominated for a Gemini as the Best Lifestyle/General Interest Series.

"The Great Canadian Food Show", which celebrates ethnic and regional influences on Canada's culinary heritage, features cuisine and scenery from every province and territory in Canada. Each episode highlights great Canadian food, as well as the people - from growers to chefs - who bring food to the table. This series has aired on Food Network Canada, CBC, TVA and TVO and has been sold to more than 52 countries.

In January of 2001, Knight Enterprises launched its second food show - "Cook Like a Chef," a series about how to cook. Several of Canada's top chefs show that gourmet food is not difficult to create. Chefs create dishes from the ground up while demonstrating cooking tips, techniques and skills. They cover everything from clarifying butter to how to make the perfect turkey.

"Licence to Grill addresses summer backyard entertaining and barbecue fare such as hamburgers, steaks, kebabs, leg of lamb, sides of fish, and grilled desserts. Knight Enterprises also produced a one hour winter BBQ special spin off from the series.

Junk Brothers is a hip, fast-paced adventure in furniture resurrection and transformation. Brothers Jim and Steve Kelley secretly patrol the streets saving cast off furniture from the refuse bin. They whisk the items away to their workshop and transform the trash into incredible pieces of furniture that maintain at least a hint of their former battered selves. Once complete, our dynamic duo silently returns the restored pieces to their original homes and watch as the homeowners are dazzled and mystified at the surprise restoration before them: they’ve just had a visit from the Junk Brothers. The series currently airs on HGTV in both Canada and the United States, as well as several other markets around the world.

This Food That Wine is the ultimate wine and food pairing experience. In every episode, hosts Angie & Stacey meet up with someone planning a party (birthday, games night, bachelorette party, home coming, etc.). They get together in Angie's kitchen for a day of menu planning, cooking and wine pairing. Then, armed with recipes and a wine list, our "guest du jour" returns to home to cook up a feast and bask in the adulation of his/her happy guests.

While propelling forward with these innovative programs, Knight Enterprises continues to develop new series including multiple new projects for Food Network Canada, Life Network Canada, CTV. The company is also positioning itself to be a leader in content development for the mobile media markets.

Knight Enterprises is a dynamic and creative company, that produces innovative and passionate programs on time and within budget. Our goal is to produce inventive and original television series. We work with an outstanding team of creative and dedicated personnel who are enthusiastic about putting out the very best in independent television production.

The Team:

Chris Knight Executive Producer

Chris is the President of Knight Enterprises, and the Executive Producer of some of the most innovative and intriguing lifestyle programming, seen on television.

His most recent projects include This Food That Wine, and exciting look at the world of food and wine pairing, produced for Food Network Canada and due to air this October. Another one of his series is HGTV hit series Junk Brothers. This exciting new furniture transformation series now airing in Canada, USA, and internationally has just completed its second season which will launch nationally in January 2007.

As Executive Producer, Chris is responsible for the creation of over 300 hours of mouth watering television including the series Table d’Hote. He was nominated for a James Beard and a Gemini award for his series ‘Cook Like a Chef’ & ‘The Great Canadian Food Show’. Chris has also brought back the fun in backyard BBQing with the extremely popular ‘Licence To Grill’ which recently completed its 5th season.

Also a prolific writer, his passion for and knowledge of haute cuisine has led him to write a plethora of food and travel articles that have been featured in some of the most prestigious magazines in the country. He has now penned 3 cookbooks based on his series; the International Gourmand Award winning cookbook ‘Cook Like a Chef’, ‘A Great Canadian Food Show Companion’, and this summers highly anticipated and best selling “Grilled to Perfection” based on his series Licence To Grill.

Chris continues to develop new concepts for broadcast on a variety of networks and platforms around the world. His latest projects include a ground breaking reality series for Food Network Canada.

Kathy Doherty Senior Producer

Since joining the company in 2001, Senior Producer Kathy Doherty has produced, managed and co-written more than 300 half hours of television with Knight Enterprises including the Gemini Award nominated hit series “Cook like A Chef’ and “Licence to Grill”.

In the summer of 2005, Kathy moved into the world of Furniture & Design as co-creator, Producer and writer of the first season of ‘Junk Brothers, HGTV Canada’s run away hit. This furniture transformation series now airing in Canada, the USA & overseas has just completed its second season which will launch across North America in January of 2007.

In 2005/2006 Kathy also acted as Producer for ‘This Food That Wine’ a funky “how-to” Wine & Food Pairing show with a focus on home entertaining for Food Network Canada.

Presently, Kathy is forging ahead on Season III of ‘Junk Brothers with many other projects in the works. According to Kathy, she is driven by the constant creative challenges that lifestyle television provide her with. Her other motivation? working with passionate & imaginative people.

After ten challenging years of working in the television industry Kathy shows no signs of slowing down. She continues to develop new and innovative show concepts to add to the Knight Enterprises repertoire of upscale programming.

Sheldon Speers Head, Business Affairs

Sheldon Speers joined Knight Enterprises as the Head of Business Affairs in May of 2004. Since coming on board, Sheldon has overseen the company’s day to day operations, including broadcast licence and distribution agreements, human resources and public relations.

Sheldon’s extensive experience managing business affairs in the Technology sector, affords him a unique forward thinking approach to the business of television production. Sheldon is consistently researching growth areas for the company including mobile content, merchandising, and branding that enables Knight Enterprises to compete with leading production companies around the globe.

Sheldon’s fearless approach towards putting big projects into place & motivation to push his colleagues to the next level have made him pivotal member of the Senior Staff at Knight Enterprises.

What is it that appeals to Sheldon about the business side of the television industry? New technologies that will allow for growth & development. Sheldon continues to explore unique & interesting ways of branching out for the Knight Enterprises team & the high end programming they are known for.

Support team

Alexis Hamilton - Production Manager

Stayci Keetch - Production Manager

Vanessa Poirier-Ogg - Post Production Manager

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