Debra Weeks

Debra Weeks
Born	Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Residence	Hollywood, California
Occupation	Executive Producer/Producer Journalist
Years active	1982–present
Children	1
Website	Debraweeks.com

Debra Weeks is an American television producer, executive producer, director, and journalist. She is noted for her role in the development and direction of reality television.

Weeks began her career as journalist in 1982 with a degree in Broadcast Journalism from California State University Northridge. She wrote copy and read the news on radio stations in southern California and Nevada. Weeks began in television as a “weather girl” at KOLO-TV in Reno, NV, and later worked in Texas and New Mexico as a television news reporter, anchor, producer and managing editor.

Weeks returned to Hollywood as part of the startup team for Paramount Pictures’ tabloid television magazine series, Hard Copy. She ultimately became the series' Supervising Producer and Managing Editor, working with Peter Brennan and Burt Kearns.

While at Hard Copy, Weeks covered and/or managed the teams reporting on entertainment as well as hard news stories, which included the 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson, the Waco siege, the Northridge earthquake, the LA riots, and the 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck.

Moving into executive slots, Debra developed and produced multiple reality television projects for network and cable as the surge of reality programming began.

Debra joined with Nash Entertainment, to manage the development and production of NBC’s "World's Most Amazing Videos". The series continued production for NBC’s Spike TV.

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