Malik Johnson
Producer
About
<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">Malik Johnson is currently the Manager of Music Programming, at Paramount+ & MTV. Malik oversees music development and music acquisitions for nonfiction television and films under Paramount Global, titles he has been across so far are “Mixtape”, Thriller 40”, “Milli Vanilli” “All Up in the Biz” and Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza”. Prior to this role, Malik was part of the documentary and nonfiction teams at Hulu’s Onyx Collective and Freeform. In this role, he managed the strategy, development, and production of all documentary programming. Aired titles include “Summer of Soul,” “The Hair Tales,” “The Deep End,” “Keep This Between Us,” “The Come Up,” and “Love Trip: Paris.”</p> <p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 15px;"> </p> <p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">Before Hulu and Freeform, Malik acted as a development associate of Documentary Programming at Quibi, where he managed the development and production of documentary series and chaptered films. In his independent work, he produced “Live PD,” “The Big Shot with Bethenny,” and “The Sit-In: Harry Belefonte Hosts The Tonight Show,” amongst others. Prior to her role with Quibi, he worked at NBC, where he produced Dateline as well as solo documentary projects for NBC News Studios, a nonfiction production company within NBC News. Outside of his current role at Paramount Global, Malik is producing and financing a short form documentary on food insecurity and EBT/SNAP benefits effecting a West Philadelphia community.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 15px;"> </p> <p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">His goals professionally are to ensure that diverse stories are told, financed and produced from the network/buyer side of the TV and Film industry. Malik is also working on becoming a mentor via Reel Works so that he can mentor NYC youth who have a passion around filmmaking.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
Brands
NBC
Hulu
HBO
Freeform
Quibi
Paramount