Michael Schelp


Michael Schelp is an American writer and director, former producer of the 2008 television series Cha$e, and former executive producer of MANswers. Schelp founded the New York-based production company Spark Plug Entertainment in 2006. The company has created several mockbuster direct-to-video CGI films.

Career

Michel Schelp is the senior director of business affairs at Fujisankei Communications International, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings, Inc., Japan's largest media conglomerate. FCI's sister companies include the Fuji Television Network, the Nippon Hoso Radio Network, Dinos Direct Marketing, Fusosha Publishing, Pony Canyon Music & Video, and Sankei Newspaper.
Responsible for developing and selling television content internationally, Schelp executive produced MANswers on Spike TV, Blais Off on Discovery Science, Viking: the Ultimate Obstacle Course on ESPN, Reinventing the Meal on Cooking Channel, and SUPERCHEF KIDS, a web series sponsored by P&G's Bounty. Schelp was a senior producer of CHA$E on SciFi Channel. He co-created, developed, and executive produced TILT 23 1/2, an 86-episode reality TV series that has been licensed in over 120 countries. Schelp sold Iron Chef to the Food Network and manages FCI's business relationship with ABC News, CNN, and other American media organizations.
Schelp is a member of the seven-person International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Committee.

Spark Plug Entertainment

Michael Schelp is the president and chief executive officer of Spark Plug Entertainment, a New York-based studio that produces computer-animated features for the international home entertainment and television markets. In the United States, Spark Plug features on DVD are sold at Walmart, Kmart, and other leading retailers and aired on the Starz premium cable channel. Spark Plug has released fourteen titles: Bug Bites, Operation Dalmatian, Mee Christmas, Car's Life, Plan Bee, Spider's Web, Piper Penguin and His Amazing Flying Machines, Car's Life 2, Toyz Goin' Wild, The Adventures of Scooter the Penguin, Car's Life 3: The Royal Heist and Car's Life 4: Junkyard Blues.

Filmography

Direct-to-video

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