Geoffrey Darby (born April 15, 1953) is a media executive, television producer, director, and writer. He was the co-creator of children's

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You Can't Do That on Television ''You Can't Do That on Television'' is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that aired locally in 1979 before airing in the United States in 1981. It featured adolescent and teenage actors performing in a sketch comedy format similar to A ...

'' and was a writer and director for the show's first five seasons.

Career

Darby co-created the

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'' Double Dare'' for

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and hosted the unaired

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. Some of Darby's other credits include the 1983 American sketch comedy TV show ''Don't Look Now'', ''UFO Kidnapped'', ''

Clarissa Explains It All ''Clarissa Explains It All'' is an American teen sitcom created by Mitchell Kriegman for Nickelodeon. In the series, Clarissa Darling ( Melissa Joan Hart) is a teenager who addresses the audience directly to explain the things that are happeni ...

'', and ''Finders Keepers''. During his career, Darby has been a Senior Vice-President at

, joining the channel in 1984. He has also been Executive Vice President of Programming for

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, Executive Vice President of

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, and President of Production and Convergence for New York-based Oxygen Media Inc. and has had senior positions at

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. He has won three Cable ACE Awards, two

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s, a

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and a Dupont Award.

Writing credits

References

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