Producer/Director Darryl Pitts is an innovator who has created a wide variety of programming featuring such celebrated talent as Halle Berry, Nia Long, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Chris Paul, and Lionel Richie to name a few. He is created with over 100 hours of programming in his career.
Darryl started his network television career at Black Entertainment Television (BET) producing network staples including Comicview in its inaugural season and Teen Summit.
Seizing an opportunity to produce programming outside of BET Darryl created a 30-minute television special on the Negro Baseball Leagues, The Playing Field. The Playing Field aired on CBS affiliates in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami. Darryl was nominated for a regional Emmy.
Riding on the heels of the heels of successful national television programming Chrysler sponsored Darryl’s next program , Dramatic Moments In Black Sports History. This one-hour program profiled seven athletes who impacted American society and created new possibilities in spite of the obstacles facing them. Dramatic Moments initial airings were on TNT after two highly rated NBA games. After the success on TNT, Dramatic Moments went into syndication and was distributed by New Line Television.
Darryl has produced a wide variety of content since those years including Back To School Summer Jam, which became a pilot program for Warner Brother Television and for Toyota/NBA a one-hour special titled Urban Life And Style.
In 2016, Darryl and several industry professionals came together to create a television distribution company and has syndicated at least one documentary per quarter since its launch including a documentary on Eminem and a holiday gospel special.
Since 2018 Darryl has been an Executive Producer of a national television quarterly television series titled Women On The Move (wotmtv.com) This quarterly series heads into Season 4 in February 2021 and airs on a combination of ABC, NBC, Fox, and CBS stations across the country. Darryl also produced a one- hour documentary titled What About Me which features the thoughts and perspectives of Black men in America. This documentary will be released in February 2021.
In addition to the extensive television work, Darryl has created branded content for Toyota/NBA, Allstate Insurance, and Chrysler. With a sponsor line-up of Chrysler, McDonald’s. Allstate, State Farm, Proctor and Gamble, Toyota, and Ford, and a track record of successful programming, Darryl continues finding new ways to bring the voices, history, and legacy of the American experience to the screen.