David Jablin

Jablin next produced Showtime's first original film, "The Ratings Game," actor Danny DeVito's feature directorial debut co-starring wife Rhea Perlman. The critically acclaimed feature garnering a WGA Award for Best Original TV Comedy Movie and an International TV Movie Festival Award for Best Comedy. Over the last several years Jablin has produced and directed several original comedy films and specials for Showtime that have achieved both critical acclaim and high ratings, including "Public Enemy #2" (1991)-nominated for 4 Cable ACE Awards, including Best Director for Jablin. Starring Dave Thomas in a dual lead role, the comedy won a Golden Eagle Award and was selected by Time Magazine as one of the 10 Best of TV-the only cable production to make the list that year.Jablin then produced "Mastergate" (Showtime, 1992), a political satire adapted from Larry Gelbart's play about the U.S. Senate Watergate hearings. Featuring James Coburn, Dennis Weaver and Burgess Meredith, "Mastergate" was nominated for a Cable ACE Award, a Casting Society of America Award and was named the Best Television Movie of 1993 by Entertainment Weekly. Next, Jablin executive produced and directed the satire "That Time Of The Month," a stinging parody of network news magazine shows. Hailed as a "TV comedy classic" by the Los Angeles Times, the production featured an all-star cast led by Shelley Long, Martin Mull, Dan Hedaya and Nora Dunn. The comedy was nominated for 3 Cable ACE awards, including another Best Director nod for Jablin.After this string of satirical successes, Showtime signed Jablin exclusively to the network to serve as executive producer on a series of original National Lampoon movies. The first, "National Lampoon's Attack of the 5 ft. 2 in. Women" (1994), drew the network's highest ratings for a made-for-cable film to date. Starring Julie Brown in a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbitt's debutante debacles, "Attack" was nominated for 2 Cable ACE awards. Debuting next was "National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins," a comic-trilogy, inspired by the sins of lust, greed and anger. "Lust" starred Denis Leary, "Greed" J Mantegna and "Anger" Andrew Dice Clay. The production was nominated for 2 Cable ACE awards, with Jablin winning for Best Director. He next produced and directed the irreverent mob-comedy, "The Don's Analyst" (TMC, 1997), starring Kevin Pollak, Robert Loggia, J Bologna, Sherilyn Fenn and Angie Dickenson. New York Newsday featured the film on it's Sunday TV Guide Cover and touted its "Pitch perfect Godfather attitude." Jablin was then attached to produce and direct the independent film, "Power Failure," penned by Larry Gelbart and based on the writer's Broadway play.