J.J. Jamieson

As division chief at Scripps, J.J. created a brand-specific franchise of TV Movies for Ion—Christmas romcoms wrapped around a central crime story—and launched them under his marketing campaign “Ion this Christmas: It’s the most wonderful crime of the year!” These films were all massive ratings hits (besting all 52 competing networks with the sole exception of Hallmark) AND the most profitable programs in the history of the network. His movies were SO successful, in fact, that Hallmark immediately started imitating them.

Before joining Scripps, Jamieson spent years working as a TV producer, writer and executive. He created/EP’d/wrote/co-wrote/re-wrote: TV movies for CBS, TBS, Lifetime and Hallmark (including CHRISTMAS AT GRACELAND, their 5th highest-rated movie ever); an unscripted series for MTV; a talk-show pilot for TBS; and a 2-hour documentary for Turner. As an executive, he ran a joint-venture of Lionsgate and Televisa as well as PODs at Warner Bros., Hamden, Fremantle and Fox TV Studios. Back under his own Triple J Media banner, he is currently writing series & movies and developing both scripted & unscripted projects.

Jamieson began his career at NBC as a Page, worked in News, Late Night and Specials, then joined NBC’s TV Movie & Miniseries Department. Recruited into NBC’s management training program, he quickly rose through the ranks as a creative exec overseeing dozens of hit longform projects in every conceivable genre... and writing the original stories for four hit movies. He is a published essayist (his series of articles about raising triplets was published at MomReady.com), a journalist (for BRNTWD Magazine & MEDICALIFE Magazine), a produced songwriter, and has worked as a celebrated professor of Film & Television at Chapman University and at Columbia College.

A native of Princeton, NJ, Jamieson graduated with Honors from Dartmouth College after attending the Lawrenceville School and studying “A” Levels at Marlborough College in Wilshire, UK. He lives in Santa Monica, CA, with his wife, producer & A+E Studio chief Tana Nugent Jamieson.