Collegium

Television, network relations

Joel Westbrook is executive producer of Interface Media Group in Washington, DC.  Previously, he was president of the television production company Alexandria Productions.  Prior to founding Alexandria, Mr. Westbrook served as Senior Vice President and Executive Producer at Time-Life Television and Video, where he was head of all original production, including serving as Senior Executive in Charge of Production on “The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and Executive Producer of “Time-Life’s Lost Civilizations,” a 10-hour NBC documentary series (and winner of the 1995-1996 Prime-Time Emmy Award, Outstanding Informational Series).  As Executive Vice President of TBS Productions, Turner Broadcasting Systems, he was responsible for all original nonfiction programming, excluding sports. 

Mr. Westbrook has produced nonfiction programming in the following genres: history, environmental, nature, and children’s.  Among them are: “National Geographic Explorer”; “Cousteau’s Rediscovery of the World”; “Rome: Power and Glory”; and “Trials of Life with David Attenborough.” He also has extensive experience producing live and packaged sports programs with Major League Baseball, NBA Basketball, and the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow.  Mr. Westbrook began his career as News Film Cameraman and Film Editor at WRBL-TV in Columbus, Georgia, after receiving an ABJ degree in journalism from the University of Georgia.