About The Show

The Game Plane, America's newest and highest flying game show, takes off this fall on a station near you.

The Team

Mark L. Walberg Host

Host Mark L. Walberg started his television career as an assistant at Dick Clark Productions and quickly moved in front of the camera as the announcer for the popular game show Shop Til You Drop and then as host of Burnt Toast, a sports magazine show on ESPN. It was there that the late Brandon Tartikoff noticed his work, and that association produced the nationally syndicated The Mark Walberg Show. Since then, Walberg has hosted and been featured in an array of popular talk, reality competition, and game shows, including the FOX hit The Moment of Truth. He also has hosted home improvement competitions The Mansion and House Rules, knowledge quiz shows Test the Nation and Russian Roulette, and won The Weakest Link as a contestant playing for charity. He also hosted the relationship challenge Temptation Island. Realizing a long-held ambition to produce, Walberg created and produced Sunday Dinner, the first original series for the Odyssey Network, with long-time friend and television personality Mark DeCarlo (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jimmy Neutron).

In addition to his successful television career, Walberg believes strongly in devoting time to create opportunities for young people. Currently he is on the board of directors of Goodwill of Southern California. He's proud to be part of an organization that is instrumental in providing hope and new futures for people who need help. He also is very involved with The Young Americans, a musical performance youth group that tours the world offering music workshops in underserved schools. In addition to Walberg, alumni include actor Tim Bagley (Grimm) and actress Nia Peeples (The Young and the Restless) He has completed production on a feature-length documentary about The Young Americans' work. Says Walberg, "The personal transformation that happens to people when they are given the ability to express themselves through the arts, specifically music and dance, is inspiring."

Walberg and actress-wife Robbi Morgan Walberg make their home in Los Angeles, where they are busy keeping up with their son and daughter.

Alpine Labs Production Co.

ALPINE LABS was founded in 2011 by Kevin Abrams, Patrick Weir and Maury Gallagher.

Alpine Labs is a company designed specifically to rethink and challenge the traditional ways content is produced and distributed by leveraging today’s advancements in digital filmmaking and applied technologies. Whether it’s 100% brand funded long form content, digital CrowdSelling of feature films, defining the new standard of digital education content or reshaping one of the longest running racecar organizations in history, Alpine Labs is transforming the traditional content and distribution model one output at a time.

Jeff Mirkin Executive Producer

Jeff Mirkin is a television producer and writer with three decades of extensive industry experience. He has produced and/or written thousands of hours of domestic and international television programming for broadcast syndication, cable, digital, and interactive platforms.

Before taking off on The Game Plane, Mirkin’s projects included several Relativity Television projects for Tom Foreman: PARKING GAMES (Spike), THE LOAN RANGER (Nat Geo), and THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE (GSN). Mirkin also worked extensively on reality shows ALASKA GOLD DIGGERS (Animal Planet) and JOE SCHMO (Spike) and FAMILY GAME NIGHT (The Hub) – incorporating the game formats based on classic games from the Hasbro catalog of board games such as Trouble, Boggle, Operation and many others.

Mirkin is also currently partnered with WHEEL OF FORTUNE host Pat Sajak in Pat Sajak Games, an interactive and print media gaming company. Mirkin’s other credits include THE DATING GAME and THE NEWLYWED GAME, POKER ROYALE, WHAMMY! THE ALL NEW PRESS YOUR LUCK (GSN), BEAT THE CLOCK (PAX) and CARD SHARKS and FAMILY FEUD (Syndication). His network credits include LET’S MAKE A DEAL (NBC) GREED (Fox), SMARTEST KID IN AMERICA (Fox) and a pilot remake of the original $64,000 QUESTION (CBS) and KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS WITH BILL COSBY (CBS).

Rodney Frazier Executive Producer

Rodney Frazier has been a screenwriter and Producer in Hollywood for more then twenty -years. After film school at Brigham Young University Hawaii, He began his career working in front of the camera as a commercial actor. His career was very successful and he managed to do series of commercials for McDonalds, Budweiser, and Ford just to name a few.

While enjoying working in front of the camera Rodney continued building a career behind the scenes working on movies and television shows with the likes of Director Blake Edwards, Robert Zemeckis, and Debbie Allen. In the mid 90’s he began working closely with Jeff Margolis and his production company JMP, Rodney independently developed and created original content for television, while working on such live television shows as the Grammies, Oscars, and SAG Awards.

Continuing to write screenplays with partner Richard Holland together they optioned scripts to Saban Entertainment, Randal Kleiser and Debra Hill. Rodney has been nominated for an Emmy Award and has won a Telly award for his work on the hit kids show HIP HOP HARRY.

His knowledge of entertainment is vast and skills are varied, Rodney has worked for the top reality house in Hollywood, Mike Fleiss’s (The Bachelor, Bachelorette) Next Entertainment, and launched an 8 million dollar worldwide production for the Discovery Channel.

Currently he is Co-Producing a Feature documentary with Spitfire Pictures (Bob Dylan NO DIRECTION HOME, Billy Joel LAST PLAY AT SHEA ) currently Rodney is on a bit of a roll he has just inked a deal with “Fishbowl Worldwide” (Vin Di Bona and Bruce Gersh) to Produce a Hawaii based reality show and a second deal with 11 television to produce an exciting new game show, both properties being of his creation.

Trifecta Entertainment

Trifecta Entertainment & Media is the creation of the top executive team behind a decade of success at MGM Television.

We are a unique and innovative independent multi-media company engaged in the development, production, distribution, advertiser sales and media sponsorships of programming across a diverse spectrum of media platforms. The vast experience of our partners and staff brings vision, creativity, professionalism, and the ability to take advantage of the constantly changing television and media landscape. Trifecta Entertainment & Media has offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Trifecta Entertainment is experienced in all aspects of television production and finance. We develop and produce all forms of television programming (e.g., scripted and reality series, made-for-television movies and miniseries) for network, cable and first run syndication, as well as direct-to-video motion pictures.

Trifecta Media is responsible for U.S. distribution, advertiser sales, branding strategies and marketing for a rapidly growing portfolio of Trifecta and third party properties in a variety of media marketplaces. Our roster of programs encompasses a strong slate of branded syndicated programming for the upcoming broadcast seasons. Additionally, we are representing alternative entertainment businesses in a wide variety of arenas, including cable, place-based viewing and the Internet.

Where to Watch

Property of Trifecta Entertainment Working List - As of August 26, 2014