John David Weinroth (born April 20, 1968), known professionally as J.D. Roth, is an American TV producer, actor, voice actor, and game show host, and TV personality. Roth has been involved in numerous TV shows. He is the co-creator of the reality show The Biggest Loser on NBC. He also hosted ABC's fall 2008 series Opportunity Knocks. He served as the announcer of the ABC tv show, Extreme Weight Loss.
Sixteen contestants, ranging in age from 12 to 15, are taken completely off the grid to solve puzzles and overcome physical challenges, with the laws of karma setting the rules.
Release Date:2020-06-18
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:1
Alex Trebek hosts a documentary about television game shows featuring interviews with a number of game show hosts and producers.
Release Date:2018-06-29
Character:Self
Vote Count:8
"Bar Rescue" star Jon Taffer teams up with acclaimed celebrity chef and author John Besh and "Top Chef All-Star" Tiffany Derry on a cross country search for struggling restaurants with incredible potential for success. In each episode, these "diamond in the rough" restaurants will compete head-to-head in challenge based competitions, giving these owners a chance to save their livelihood - their business - and prove to the experts that their restaurant is worthy of an investment.
Release Date:2014-05-04
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:1
Release Date:2013-01-31
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:1
Roseanne's Nuts is a Lifetime reality show/docudrama that aired from July 13, 2011, to September 16, 2011. It featured Roseanne Barr, her partner Johnny Argent and son Jake Pentland as they live on their macadamia nut and livestock farm in Hawaii. Celebrity guests included: Bonnie Bramlett, Michael Fishman, Phyllis Diller and Sandra Bernhard. It premiered on July 13, 2011, with two half-hour episodes. The show received mixed reviews based on its first episode. Its premiere was watched by 1.6 million viewers becoming Lifetime's fourth most-watched unscripted series launch in total viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54. However, by its sixth week it was down to 711,000 viewers and was moved from Wednesdays to Friday nights for its final three weeks; repeats of Dance Moms took its Wednesday slot. On September 21, 2011, it was reported that Lifetime canceled the series.
Release Date:2011-07-13
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:16
Extreme Weight Loss is a television program from ABC in which individuals volunteer to receive training and lifestyle changes from trainer Chris Powell. The show is slightly based on the original concept of Extreme Makeover, where individuals receive life-changing makeovers. The exception is that this show focuses primarily on participants losing massive amounts of weight over one year and receiving plastic surgery to remove the excess skin from their transformations.
Release Date:2011-05-30
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:5
I Used To Be Fat is an MTV reality series that follows overweight teens striving to achieve weight loss through means of diet and exercise. Each episode follows one teenager who is paired with a motivational personal trainer. A trainer teaches them new exercise and eating habits over the next few months while offering emotional support. Documented students share their personal trials and tribulations in the series. Several episodes of the show have covered a high school student's last summer before college. These students expressed a desire for a metamorphosis before they start their new lives away from home.
Release Date:2010-12-29
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:1
Hair Battle Spectacular is an American television series that premiered on the cable network Oxygen on August 10, 2010. The show follows 10 hair stylist as they battle it out in the ring for a $100,000 grand prize and to see who can create the most outrageous hair styles that resemble everything from multilayer wedding cakes to toys with movable pieces. The Hair Battle theme song is "Nobody's Gonna Stop Us" by Taylor Lee and Russell W. The second season premiered on August 15, 2011 and ended October 3, 2011. In the "Final Hairdown," the last three remaining contestants were Kirby "Nostradamus," Ashley "Blondie," and Alejandro "Bossa Nova." Kirby "Nostradamus" took the prize winning $100,000.
Release Date:2010-08-10
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:16
Dad Camp is a docureality show that attempts to transform six irresponsible soon-to-be dads into respectable fathers. Young, unprepared fathers-to-be are asked to embrace their looming responsibility as a parent before it's too late. With their pregnant girlfriends by their sides, the guys move into the same house to face a variety of tough, progressive lessons in parenting, honesty and maturity developed by clinical psychologist and relationship expert Dr. Jeff Gardere. Once the therapy is complete, each girlfriend decides if her relationship is worth saving or if she wants to raise her child alone.
Release Date:2010-05-31
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:9
The OCD Project is an American reality television series that debuted on May 27, 2010. The series follows Dr. David Tolin and his exposure-based treatment of six patients living together in a Southern California mansion. The treatment, called exposure and response prevention, can seem unorthodox but is a recommended treatment for OCD.
Release Date:2010-05-27
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
It's Hammertime in this A&E series that features a peek inside the life of Stanley Burrell, aka M.C. Hammer, who's experienced the exhilaration of selling more than 50 million albums to the despair of bankruptcy. Back on his feet financially, Hammer now spends his days running his music label, performing, juggling speaking engagements and being a family man to his wife of more than 23 years and their six kids, ranging in age from 3 to 21.
Release Date:2009-06-14
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:11
4th and Long is a reality television series hosted by Michael Irvin that premiered on Spike on May 18, 2009. The winner of the show earned a spot at the Dallas Cowboys training camp - with a shot of making the roster. The show pits six wide receivers against six defensive backs. The show was filmed at the Cotton Bowl, with Joe Avezzano as the coach for the receivers and Bill Bates as the coach for the backs. The athletes have varying backgrounds, including national champions, CFL players, arena league veterans, semi-pro players, and those who have tried to make NFL rosters.
Release Date:2009-05-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:10
Opportunity Knocks is a 2008 game show hosted by J.D. Roth, and executive produced by Ashton Kutcher and his Katalyst Productions. It premiered on September 23, 2008 on ABC and Citytv in Canada, but received low ratings, especially in the 18-34 year old age demographic, and was canceled after three episodes. ABC subsequently scheduled the remaining six completed episodes for broadcast on Tuesdays at 8:00 pm beginning on May 26, 2009.
Release Date:2008-09-23
Department:Production
Job:Producer
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Episode Count:9
Groomer Has It is an American reality game television series broadcast on Animal Planet. It features a competition between twelve of America's best dog groomers to see who is the best groomer in America. The prize includes $50,000 and a "mobile grooming salon." The show is hosted by Jai Rodriguez of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fame. Although the entire series is rated TV-PG, one episode has been rated TV-MA. The winner of the first season was Artist Knox, while the second groomer of the year is Huber.
Release Date:2008-04-12
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:25
Vote Count:1
The Pickup Artist is a tale of transformation. Mystery is a best-selling author and ultimate pick-up artist who has the secret to wooing women. He'll guide a group of socially awkward men through the rough waters of romance and help them overcome their biggest fear of talking to women.
Release Date:2007-08-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:18
Vote Count:3
Age of Love is an American reality TV dating series that ran for one season in Summer 2007. The show featured 30 year-old Australian tennis star Mark Philippoussis as he looked for love among a group of women ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 40s. Hosted by Mark Consuelos, the series aired on NBC, and premiered on Monday, June 18, 2007. The last episode aired on August 6, 2007, in which 25 year-old Amanda Salinas was chosen as the winner.
Release Date:2007-06-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:1
SuperGroup was a 2006 reality show on VH1 that followed five well-known hard rock and heavy metal musicians over a 12-day period during which they lived together in a Las Vegas mansion in order to create, plan and perform a live show together. The show, which aired in seven segments, starred band members Sebastian Bach, Jason Bonham, Scott Ian, Ted Nugent and Evan Seinfeld. Doc McGhee, who had previously worked with Bach and his band Skid Row, appeared as the band's manager. Journalist Lonn Friend and photographer Ross Halfin, who were long-time contributors for other VH1 features such as Behind the Music, appeared on the show.
Release Date:2006-06-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:1
Unan1mous is an American reality television program that premiered on the Fox Network on March 22, 2006 and ran for one season. The host of the series was J. D. Roth.
Release Date:2006-03-22
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
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Episode Count:[ 8 ]
Breaking Bonaduce was an American reality television series on VH1, focusing on former child-actor Danny Bonaduce, and how his increasingly unstable lifestyle impacted his then-wife, Gretchen, and their two children. The series premiered in September 2005 and ended in December 2006.
Release Date:2005-09-11
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:19
Vote Count:1
A group of "Beauties" and a group of "Geeks" are paired up to compete as couples for a shared $250,000 and other prizes. Each beauty lives together in a room with her geek during the course of the competition. There are challenges shown each episode, one testing the beauties on a primarily academic subject, and another that has the geeks competing in a more popular/social realm. The winners of the challenges select two teams to compete against each other in a pure "quiz show" type question and answer session: the team with fewer correct answers gets eliminated.
Release Date:2005-06-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:48
Vote Count:10
Endurance is an American reality television children's program, previously shown on the Discovery Kids cable network in the United States and also on networks in other countries. The show's format is somewhat similar to the CBS television series Survivor, though with a teenaged cast. Endurance contestants live in a remote location and participate in various mental and physical challenges, although Endurance contestants compete as pairs, and the outcome of the competitions determines which pair of players is eliminated. In its six-year run between 2002–2008, each season began with a new slate of contestants, who were gradually eliminated as the season progressed until the remaining two teams competed to get all of the Endurance Pyramid pieces. The winning boy and girl received an all-expenses paid vacation package with their parents to an exotic location as the prize. Production ended with the final episode of the sixth season, first aired on March 8, 2008. Reruns of Endurance continue to be televised in the U.S., on Hub Network, Discovery Kids's successor until July 22, 2013. Reruns on the Hub ended on October 14, 2011, until the show was brought back for reruns on April 2, 2012 but was once again cancelled. Spanish-dubbed reruns also air on weekends on Azteca America. Three seasons of Endurance were each nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Children's Series", however the show never won.
Release Date:2002-10-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:
Episode Count:96
Moolah Beach is a reality show in the vein of Survivor but with teenagers competing in competitions in order to not be exiled from the beach and ultimately win $25,000. It aired on Fox as a 30-minute show and Fox Family as an extended 60-minute show in the summer/fall of 2001 for 13 episodes and is the predecessor of the current show Endurance on Discovery Kids. The show was filmed on Pilaa beach near Hanalei on the island of Kauai's North Shore.
Release Date:2001-09-08
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Character:
Episode Count:[ 7 ]
Vote Count:3
Annual Easter parade from Walt Disney World in Florida. Also includes a sneak preview of Walt Disney World's new Wide World of Sports complex and the new high-speed Test Track
Release Date:1997-03-30
J.D. Roth hosts an holiday arts & crafts at Walt Disney World; filmed in 1996 at Disney's MGM Studios.
Release Date:1996-12-01
Character:Himself
Fun House was an American children's television game show that aired from September 5, 1988 to April 13, 1991. Two teams, each consisting of a boy and a girl, played messy games and answered questions to win a chance to run through an obstacle-strewn Fun House at the end of the show. It was hosted by J. D. Roth, who was assisted by cheerleading twins Jacqueline "Jackie" and Samantha "Sammi" Forrest. The announcer on the syndicated version was John "Tiny" Hurley. He was replaced for the Fox version by Michael Chambers, a.k.a. "MC Mike." For its first two years, Fun House aired in syndication, but for its last season it was picked up by Fox Broadcasting Company and renamed "Fox's Fun House." Fun House was produced by Stone Television, in association with and distributed by: Lorimar-Telepictures, Lorimar Television, Telepictures and Warner Bros. Television.
Release Date:1988-09-05
Episode Count:148
Vote Count:4
The Great Ak calls a council of the Immortals to ask that Santa Claus be given immortality. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus. The Ak found an abandoned baby and gave it to a lioness and a fairy to raise, who named him Claus. When Claus grew up, the Great Ak showed him the evil and hardship in the world and Claus decides to live there and relieve some of the suffering. He decides to make toys for orphans, but King Awgwa, the ruler of the valley where Claus lives doesn't want the children to be happy, and there is a great battle among Immortals.
Release Date:1985-12-17
Character:Young Claus (voice)
Vote Count:22
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Make Me a Millionaire is the second television game show of the California Lottery, having replaced The Big Spin on January 17, 2009. Originally contracted for a four-year run, the Lottery cancelled the show after eighteen months, with its last episode telecast on July 3, 2010. On July 9, five unaired episodes were uploaded to the California Lottery's official YouTube page. Contestants received a guaranteed minimum prize of $2,000, while the grand prize was a progressive jackpot of at least $1,000,000.
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series.
Release Date:1996-08-26
Character:Jonny Quest (voice)
Episode Count:26
Vote Count:42
Double Up is an American game show that aired very briefly on NBC Saturday mornings from September 5 to October 17, 1992. J. D. Roth hosted as well as being one of its executive producers. A rap DJ named Disco served as announcer.
Release Date:1992-09-05
Character:Host
Episode Count:7
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.
Release Date:1992-07-08
Character:Jack
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:155
TV 101 is an American drama series that aired on CBS from 1988 until 1989. The series stars Sam Robards, Brynn Thayer, Leon Russom and Andrew Cassese. Other notable cast members include Stacey Dash, Teri Polo, Alex Désert and Matt LeBlanc. The music for this show was created and produced by Todd Rundgren.
Release Date:1988-11-29
Character:Blaine Sheppard
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
During World War II, a passenger ship travelling from Britain to the USA is torpedoed by a German U-Boat. Eleven children survive the wreck and are swept to a small uninhabited island. Miraculously, they are able to establish radio contact with none other than the grandson of the US president.
Release Date:1985-11-21
Character:William
Episode Count:1
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
Release Date:1985-09-27
Character:Boy at Party
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:219
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
Release Date:1985-09-18
Character:Larry Kelly
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:57
Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, works as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board.
Release Date:1984-10-03
Character:Brad
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:64
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
Release Date:1984-09-30
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:79
A talk-and-discussion program.
Episode Count:9