Arnold Shapiro is an Oscar and Emmy Award-winning television creator and producer with decades of experience in a myriad of TV genres. Among his 150 awards are 16 Emmys, an Academy Award, and the George Foster Peabody Award. He is a native of Los Angeles and a graduate of UCLA where he has taught more than 55 classes on pitching, producing, writing and selling TV shows through UCLA Extension.

Arnold has produced 28 series, 4 television movies, and more than 90 specials and documentaries -- his most famous being "Scared Straight! for which he received an Academy Award and multiple Emmys. His other notable productions include the CBS series “Big Brother: All Stars,” “Situation: Comedy” on Bravo, “ “The Road to Stardom with Missy Elliott” for UPN, "Rescue 911," for CBS, hosted by William Shatner, and the landmark documentary, "Scared Silent: Exposing & Ending Child Abuse," hosted by Oprah Winfrey, which aired simultaneously on NBC, CBS, and PBS, followed by ABC. It remains the most watched non-news documentary special ever aired on American television. Arnold is currently producing a non-fiction pilot for the ABC Television Network, as well as pitching three other television projects.

At the age of 22, Arnold created and sold his first television show to CBS in Los Angeles, and has been a non-stop producer since then. He has been president of his own production company since 1982, and has worked in local, syndicated and network TV producing shows for all the broadcast networks and 14 cable networks from MTV to HBO.

Arnold's vast experience as an entrepreneur, innovator, risk-taker, and award-winning producer in one of the most competitive businesses in the world will benefit anyone who wants to know the realities of creating, selling and producing your own TV shows. From the television trenches, Arnold tells it like it really is, and in spite of how difficult it is to achieve success, Arnold's message is one of encouragement and optimism.