Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith, the chairman of A. Smith & Co. Productions, is a pioneering veteran of nonfiction television, known for creating and producing some of the longest-running unscripted series in history. Smith was honored as one of Variety's "Titans of Unscripted TV" in 2022, inducted into the Realscreen Awards Hall of Fame in 2021, awarded Broadcasting & Cable's "Producer of the Year" in 2020, nominated for several Emmy Awards, and received dozens of awards. Smith embarked on his career in television at twenty-two at CBC in his native Canada, where he produced three Olympic Games among countless other high-profile events. At twenty-eight, Smith was named the youngest-ever head of CBC Sports. His successful run at the network ended when American broadcasting icon Dick Clark lured him to Hollywood to develop and produce a wide variety of entertainment programming. As the head of programming and production at FOX Sports Net, Smith played an instrumental role in the launch and growth of this massive entity, before the biggest reach of his life--the creation of his eponymous production company that has since thrived for more than twenty years and counting. He lives in Los Angeles.