Entertainment industry veteran and multi-Image Award® winner Jesse Collins has played an integral role in producing many of television’s most memorable moments in music entertainment. Collins is the executive producer of the critically-acclaimed film, The New Edition Story, a biopic on the boy band that aired as a three-part mini-series on BET in January 2017, and posted record ratings for the network and attracted nearly 30 million viewers. Collins and his company, Jesse Collins Entertainment, has also produced award-winning programming, including the BET Awards, BET Honors, UNCF’s An Evening of Stars, ABFF Awards, Soul Train Awards and the BET Hip Hop Awards. Collins is also a consulting producer for the iconic Grammy® Awards and was executive producer of BET’s hit TV series Real Husbands of Hollywood starring Kevin Hart. He is also the executive producer of VH1 shows Dear Mama and Hip Hop Squares with Ice Cube and Netflix’s Rhythm & Flow that will debut in 2019. He has appeared on the cover of Vibe magazine and has been featured in numerous publications including Ebony magazine.

Jesse Collins Entertainment is a full-service television and film production company. The company’s most recent project was The Bobby Brown Story. The mini-series picked up where The New Edition Story left off and chronicled the talented but troubled singer’s exit from the popular ’80s boy band through his solo success, his affair with Janet Jackson and tabloid-fodder marriage to pop icon Whitney Houston. Spanning 30 years of Brown’s life, the series followed his story from the hard streets of Roxbury, where he turned to a life of drug dealing before being given the chance to prove himself as a solo artist. Also a story about redemption, the singer learns to be a better man, husband and father through sobriety — finding love again and remarrying in 2012. It debuted on BET in September 2018 as the highest rated non-tentpole program on BET since The New Edition Story aired the previous year. The company’s next TV series is American Soul, the story about the struggle to make the dream of Soul Train come true. Set in the early 70s, filled with music, dance, fashion and glamour, this is the untold story of the launch of the first nationally-syndicated Black music show and what happened when the music stopped. Battles with record labels for top talent and off-camera drama, as young dancers vie for the spotlight, stand in the way of a 30-something Don Cornelius who is sacrificing all that he loves to follow his dream. The journeys of these characters collide in a racially charged LA with the odds stacked against them. The series will debut on BET in February 2019.