Burt Kearns

Burt Kearns is an American television and film producer, writer, director, journalist and author, known for his influential work in reality television and his controversial 1999 tabloid television memoir, Tabloid Baby.

Television and film production

Writer & Producer

Kearns is in demand as a nonfiction television producer, writer, showrunner and consultant on series and shows as diverse as Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, Guinness World Records Unleashed and True Tori.

He was co-executive producer of the second season of the truTV reality series, Way Out West (premiering March 27, 2015); co-executive producer, writer and showrunner of True Tori: True Confessions, a one-hour special that kicked off the second season of the hit reality series, True Tori on the Lifetime network, and L.A. Hair Confidential, the one-hour reunion and clip show that wrapped the series’ fourth season on WE tv in October 2015. Kearns was consulting producer on Tori Spelling: Celebrity Lie Detector, which aired October 3, 2015 on Lifetime, and Monster Island, a Monster Week special on Animal Planet (aired May 21, 2015).