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PROFILE Abby Terkuhle Abby Terkuhle has over 20 years of extensive commercial television promotion, production and series experience. He is the founder and president of Aboriginal Entertainment, a New York firm that produces original programming for film and television, as well as digital content across multiple media platforms. At Aboriginal, Abby developed and currently serves as executive producer for Artstar, an eight-part unscripted high definition series set in the New York art world with Deitch Projects for Gallery HD. Most recently Abby was founder and president of MTV Animation, the network’s full-service production studio. MTV Animation produced such critically acclaimed and commercially successful TV hits as Aeon Flux, Beavis and Butt-head, Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch and the theatrical hit, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, which Abby also produced. As Creative Director at MTV: Music Television, he spearheaded MTV’s award winning, in-house advertising and on-air promotions, establishing MTV as one of the most recognized global brands in entertainment. His interest in new forms of animation changed the look of MTV with groundbreaking station identification and art breaks, short and full length animated programming, beginning with the Emmy Award winning Liquid Television. Earlier in his career, Abby was a film segment producer for NBC’s Saturday Night Live and a producer for Showtime/The Movie Channel. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious television programming, marketing, and promotion accolades including the Emmy, Clio, Cable Ace, Broadcast Design and Promax Awards. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from Loyola University and currently lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. |