James DuBose

James DuBose
Born December 4, 1969 (age 47)
Education Wake Forest University (1990)
Occupation Film producer, television producer
Years active 1996-present
Notable work WAGS Atlanta, The Start Up, From The Bottom Up, Centennial Olympic Games, The Michael Vick Project, Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is, Keyshia Cole: All In, Frankie & Neffe, Monica: Still Standing, Tiny and Toya, Trey Songz: My Moment, The House of Boateng, BET Comic View
Home town Greensboro, North Carolina
Title CEO & founder, executive producer
Board member of Winston-Salem Foundation I Reed For Hope Foundation

James DuBose is an American television producer, filmmaker and entertainment industry executive.[1] Credited as a pioneer of unscripted programming,[2] DuBose is regarded for the development and navigation of original show concept towards record-breaking network numbers,[3] realizing top-ranking Nielsen ratings.[4] He is an avid supporter of the Oakland Film Office.[5]

Having served as executive producer for original series including: Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is,[6] Monica: Still Standing,[7] The Michael Vick Project,[8] Frankie & Neffe,[9] Trey Songz: My Moment,[10] the North Carolina native is credited for helping navigate BET Networks up the ranks.[2][11]

Reports reveal the Wake Forest alum remains active on a grassroots level, returning to campus to engage "Journeys to Success" talks with students while sharing his career experiences.[12] He is reported to have future plans to launch a television production camp for children of low-income families.[13]

WFU deaconship

DuBose's journey to becoming a "Rising Star"[14] of Wake Forest University[15] began after the former defensive lineman for the school's historic Demon Deacons football team[16] accepted a WFU football scholarship[17] – an offer presented to fewer than 3% of first year applicants.[18] It is noted that DuBose earned his Broadcast Communications degree under communications mentor, Professor Mary Dalton.[19]

Early career

Reports reveal DuBose led a brief NFL career, drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1990.[20] Considering the obvious sports ingredient, clearly prevalent in early productions led by DuBose—including, Season of the Tiger—it would seem that his release from playing the NFL's defensive line merely applied to just that; just ask Michael Vick.

A call for DuBose's hand in the live sports broadcast[9] of the Centennial Olympic Games[21] led the producer to relocate to Atlanta. During his service to the International Olympic Committee[22] as an NBC producer,[23] DuBose connected with Solid Gold creator Brad Lachman, who DuBose credits as a "mentor".[24]

DuBose Entertainment

DuBose founded DuBose Entertainment in 2006,[25] seeing the Los Angeles production company to grow to house 45 employees just in its first few years of operation.[12] By 2009, DuBose[26] joined forces with rapper MC Lyte and launched DuBose Music Group.[27] On August 27, 2009, Lyte took to her blog to announce the merger to her fans and colleagues.[9] "There is no doubt that James DuBose is a prolific producer of reality programming", she wrote.[9] "Who has become the go to guy for some of today's biggest names."[9] Two-years later, the pair signed dancehall reggae artist Beenie Man to the music label.[28] That same year, R&B singer Tweet joined the growing artist roster of DuBose Music Group.[29] In 2013, Tweet released a five-track EP, “Simply Tweet,” under the DuBose brand.[29]

Personal life

DuBose's timeline began on December 4, 1969. Despite the southern locale he journeyed during his childhood, the mass-associated "southern hospitality" cultural factor was undeniably null and void from the producer's collective coming of age experience. For, both the time and place of his birth happened just as the 1969 Greensboro Uprising against Jim Crow laws of the south ignited.[30] In fact, the city scope of mainstream racism, discrimination, and segregation is proven to have been so profound, Human Rights watchdogs of Greensboro moved to engage federal authorities to endorse the city's Audit of Housing Discrimination.[31]

During DuBose's early years, his single mother worked tirelessly at a Greensboro factory job[32] as she struggled to raise DuBose during the city's noted "desegregation and integration" era.[33][34] With his being exposed to the societal trauma and toxicities from early childhood, the journey experienced by DuBose as a boy clearly defines a sharp contrast to that which the producer's children experience.[35] That's because DuBose successfully navigated his path above the societal traps he was exposed during his youth, landing permanent escape from inner city housing project living.[13] Today, the father of two is well regarded for consistent winning results of the often deemed controversial DuBose productions, all of which convey "a focus on people at their darkest hour trying to rebuild their lives".[36]

Collaborations

Filmography

Year Title Network Role
2017 WAGS Atlanta E! Networks, Comcast Executive Producer[47]
2016 From The Bottom Up BET Networks Executive producer[48]
2015 Keyshia Cole: All In BET Networks Executive producer
2014 Keyshia & Daniel: Family First BET Networks Executive producer[49]
2014 Toya: A Family Affair BET Networks Executive producer[50]
2013 ComicView 14 BET Networks, Viacom Executive producer[51]
2012 Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is BET Networks Executive producer[52]
2012 Being Bobby Brown Bravo, NBCUniversal Executive producer[53]
2010 Monica: Still Standing BET NEtworks Executive producer[54]
2010 Tiny & Toya BET Networks Executive producer
2010 The Michael Vick Project BET Networks Executive producer[55]
2009 Frankie & Neffe BET Networks Executive producer[56]
2009 Inside DTP BET Networks Executive producer[57]
2009 Trey Songz: My Moment BET Networks Executive producer[58]
2007 We Got To Do Better BET Networks Director[59]
2005 Super Agent Spike TV, Viacom Executive producer[60]
2005 Run's House MTV, MTV2, BET Producer[61]
2005 P. Diddy Presents: The Bad Boys of Comedy HBO, Time Warner Executive producer[62]
1999 Tarzan in Concert With Phil Collins Time Warner Producer[63]

References

  1. ↑ "James DuBose eyes scripted series". The Hollywood Reporter.
  2. 1 2 "BET Networks' 2009-10 record-setting season was the best in its history". Target Market News. October 5, 2010.
  3. ↑ "BMF Story To Hit The Big Screen". K97.5 FM.
  4. ↑ "Reality Roundup: BET Networks Picks up Three New Original Unscripted Series". Business Wire. August 11, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Oakland Film Office Film-Ography".
  6. ↑ "Keyshia Cole Gets A New Reality Show On BET". Atlanta Black Star. May 3, 2012.
  7. ↑ "R&B Singer Monica 'Still Standing' After Tragedy, Struggles". NPR. November 3, 2009.
  8. ↑ "Michael Vick to star in docu-series". Los Angeles Times. October 9, 2009.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Lyte, MC (August 27, 2009). "DUBOSE ENTERTAINMENT".
  10. ↑ "Bobby Brown Steps Back Into Reality TV". WPGC CBS Local. September 10, 2012.
  11. ↑ "BET Networks Announces More Hours of Original Programming Than Ever Before". Business Wire.
  12. 1 2 "Life is reality kick for alum".
  13. 1 2 "Stay tuned for more from TV producer". News & Record.
  14. ↑ "Rising Star award". Wake Forest University. June 2, 2009.
  15. ↑ "Wake Forest University celebrates Founders’ Day". Wake Forest University. February 26, 2009.
  16. ↑ "James DuBose". College Football Statistics and History.
  17. ↑ "James DuBose Visits Wake Forest". Wake Forest Sports. December 6, 2010.
  18. ↑ "Merit-Based Scholarships". Wake Forest University.
  19. ↑ "Wake Forest in the News".
  20. ↑ "DuBose turned passion for communications into L.A. production company: Life is a reality kick for WFU alum". Winston-Salem Journal. November 19, 2010.
  21. ↑ "The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games Atlanta 1996" (PDF).
  22. ↑ "Global Games".
  23. ↑ "BET producer finds Atlanta beats L.A. as place to do shows". The Denver Post. October 31, 2007.
  24. ↑ "Reality - Check: Producer Re-Writing The Reality TV Rules". November 30, 2009.
  25. ↑ "Reality Check: Producer Re-Writing The Reality TV Rules". EuroWeb.
  26. ↑ "BMF's Big Meech approves biopic rights". Getty Images.
  27. ↑ "MC Lyte Named Executive VP Of DuBose Entertainment". Hip Hop DX.
  28. ↑ "Beenie Man signs US rapper". The Star.
  29. 1 2 "R&B singer Tweet explains why it took her a decade to release a new album". Los Angeles Times. February 25, 2016.
  30. ↑ "In the 1960s and 1970s Greensboro/Winston-Salem was the premiere region of NC".
  31. ↑ "HUD/FHEO - FHAP Partnership Audit of Housing Discrimination Greensboro" (PDF). U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sills Consulting, LLC. October 2012 – via Human Relations Department of the City of Greensboro.
  32. ↑ "Stay Tuned For More From TV Producer". News & Record. November 7, 2007.
  33. ↑ "Desegregation and Integration of Greensboro’s Public Schools, 1954-1974". Civil Rights Greensboro.
  34. ↑ "James DuBose Biography". IMDB.
  35. ↑ "James DuBose, IMDB".
  36. ↑ Deggans, Eric (2007). THE REALITY MAN: Producer Helps BET Get Real. Ebony Magazine: Johnson Publishing Company. p. 222. ISSN 0012-9011. The soft-spoken native of Greensboro, N.C., has a flair for tapping into the African American experience that has made him the go-to man for BET when officials want to break away from the pack," says Robyn Lattaker-Johnson, BET vice-president of development. "He's a solid producer.
  37. ↑ "The Newest Princess of R&B Reveals Her Soul in BET's Original Docu-Drama, KEYSHIA COLE: THE WAY IT IS". BET Press.
  38. ↑ "Bobby Brown Lands BET Reality Show". Essence Magazine.
  39. ↑ "From The Bottom Up Cast and Characters". TV Guide.
  40. ↑ "BET Networks Turns up the Heat This Summer with a Diverse Slate of New Original Premieres and Returning Favorites!". The Globe and Mail.
  41. ↑ Terrace, Vincent (2003). Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937–2012. McFarland. p. 139. ISBN 1476602492.
  42. ↑ "BET Slates 'Inside the Label' Premiere". Billboard Magazine. April 18, 2016.
  43. ↑ "Grammy-award nominated, multi-platinum singer/songwriter, producer, singer/songwriter, producer, business entrepreneur and reality TV show superstar Keyshia Cole releases new single "You" featuring Remy Ma and French Montana". Epic Records. January 27, 2017.
  44. ↑ "BET Adds 2 New Original Movies + New Series, and More to Its Summer Lineup". Shadow and Act. April 20, 2017.
  45. ↑ "P. Diddy Presents the Bad Boys of Comedy. Rising urban comics perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.". TV Guide. 2005.
  46. ↑ "CAU takes Central Role in Hit Series " Drumroll: SWD"".
  47. ↑ "E! Greenlights ‘WAGS Atlanta’; Sets ‘WAGS LA’ & Miami Premiere Dates". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. May 4, 2017.
  48. ↑ "BET Unveils 2015-2016 Slate Additions: New Original Scripted & Unscripted Series, Movies, News Specials & More". IndieWire. Penske Media Corporation.
  49. ↑ "R&B singer Keyshia Cole returns to BET in new docu-drama, ‘Family First’". The Los Angeles Sentinel.
  50. ↑ "BET Favorite Antonia "Toya" Carter Makes a Comeback With Her Own Original Series "Toya: A Family Affair"". Viacom.
  51. ↑ "BET Renews 'The Game,' 6 More; Orders Sunday Talk Show". The Hollywood Reporter. April 2, 2013.
  52. ↑ "BET OKs Keyshia Cole Reality Series". Deadline Hollywood.
  53. ↑ "Bobby Brown gets real in new BET project". Los Angeles Times.
  54. ↑ "Monica 'Still Standing' After Trying Times". Billboard.
  55. ↑ "Michael Vick 'documentary' is an exercise in hero worship". The Baltimore Sun.
  56. ↑ "BET Announces New Reality Show Spin Off FRANKIE & NEFFE".
  57. ↑ "BET Goes 'INSIDE DTP'". Viacom.
  58. ↑ "Trey Songz: My Moment - Season 1, Episode 9".
  59. ↑ "People Being Themselves, and Other Sorry Tales". The New York Times.
  60. ↑ "Review: ‘Super Agent’". Variety.
  61. ↑ "Run's House (2005) Full Cast & Crew".
  62. ↑ "P. Diddy Presents the Bad Boys of Comedy".
  63. ↑ "Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins (1999 TV Special)".
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