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Mark Sennet
Mark Sennet is an executive producer of television series, movies, miniseries and
feature films through his company Sennet-Gernstein Entertainment. He recently
completed production with Storyline and CBS on "The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
Story" -- starring Sean Hayes as Jerry Lewis and Jeremy Northam as Dean Martin --
which aired in November 2002. He also executive produced "Inside the Osmonds,"
a television movie for ABC Entertainment, which aired in February 2001.
Sennet also has a number of films in development for television, including two event
films for ABC: "The Go-Go's," a biopic of the '80s girl pop phenomenon, which he
is producing with Jaffe/Braunstein Entertainment, and "Touch the Top of the World:
The Erik Weihenmeyer Story," an account of the first blind mountain climber to reach
the summit of Mt. Everest. In addition, he has in development at USA "The Boston
Strangler," the story of the infamous serial killer Albert DeSalvo, and is executive
producing, with Aretha Franklin, her life story, entitled "The Queen of Soul: The
Aretha Franklin Story," for NBC. Sennet has also just sold and is preparing to
produce Stephen King's "Desperation" as a miniseries for ABC.
He is also currently in preproduction on the feature films "Blood Will Tell -- The
Robert Blake Story"; "Dead Finish," starring Jane Seymour; and "The Secret
Service." Also currently in development are the pilot "Clandestine," based on the
novel by James Ellroy, and the animated series "Alien Quest."
Sennet's other TV projects in development include: "Auntie Mame," starring Bette
Midler; "Letters to Jenny," an adaptation of the novel by acclaimed fantasy author
Pierce Anthony; "Mothers & Daughters," an adaptation of the best-selling
photography book by Carol Saline and Sharon Wohlmuth; "A Child Called It," an
adaptation of the best-selling book by Dave Pelzer; "The Florence Greenberg
Story"; and "The Reagans: A Love Story," which he and former White House deputy
chief of staff Mike Deaver developed with the cooperation of Nancy Reagan.
Before starting Sennet-Gernstein Entertainment, Sennet was based at Merv Griffin
Entertainment. Prior to that, he spent two years at Columbia Pictures Television
and was a producer at The Guber-Peters Entertainment Company.
Sennet began his career as a photojournalist for the Associated Press in New York
in the early 1970s. After joining the London Daily Express, he traveled with and
photographed Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles, and covered Watergate
extensively.
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