Michelle Valentine Media, LLC is a worldwide-reaching television & video production company that creates, develops, and produces multimedia content to promote the tourism and hospitality industries. Michelle Valentine Media, LLC specializes in creating TV series for national television syndication, cable networks, satellite networks, digital streaming, and mobile applications.
Michelle Valentine, CEO, is a 20+ year veteran of the television industry as an award-winning Producer and Celebrity TV Host.
Television programming credits includes the new world travel TV series, “Love Eat Travel” with Michelle Valentine; the nationally-airing “Michelle Valentine Show”; the nationally-airing “The Dating Show”; the award-winning music entertainment show, “Offstage”; the home-shopping show, “Michigan Shopping Network”; a fashion and beauty program “L Vogue”; a pet adoption show, “Pets on Parade”; and an arts & craft program, “Michelle’s Craft Show”.
Infomercial and commercial clients include the industries of medical, educational, hospitality, beverage/wines, fashion, publishing, and more.
TELEVISION SERIES
In Production:
“Love Eat Travel” is an educational and entertaining travel TV show that takes viewers to gorgeous getaways from around the world. Hosted by Michelle Valentine (an award-winning TV Host & Producer, seasoned world traveler, and travel writer), viewers will learn about the history of fascinating locations, unique activities to do while there, and delicious foods & wines of the featured destination. “Love Eat Travel” also showcases fabulous hotels, resorts, and restaurants to help viewers plan their next getaway! The first season of “Love Eat Travel” is a 6-episode series. A half-hour pilot is completed, which features Bilbao, a historic city in Northern Spain. New episodes are continually being shot as Michelle Valentine travels the world!
The “Michelle Valentine Show” originally premiered on Time Warner Communications in Central Florida and grew to national TV airings in 2014, and continues airing today in select U.S. television markets. The Michelle Valentine Show is a half-hour, 8-season/52-episode series that inspires viewers to create happier & healthier life relationships by featuring experts such as doctors, romance novel authors, renowned communication experts, and celebrities, too! Viewers escape each week with Michelle Valentine to romantic destinations around Florida. Viewers learn about exciting romantic adventures while in the area. Adventures include hot air balloon rides, boat rides, parasailing, and more. Cooking segments on the show teach viewers how to cook a healthy and romantic dinner-for-two, plus appetizers and lots of chocolate desserts! Viewers learn beauty & relaxation secrets when Michelle Valentine visits local spas and salons, and features beauty makeovers.
“Healthy Cooking” 5-minute recipe episodes featuring TV Host, Michelle Valentine, has reached a milestone! The episodes are licensed to over 25 PEG television stations – and airing in over half million U.S. households! Each episode features Michelle Valentine introducing the chef, Marlene Spiegel of Wildtree Spices. The chef cooks up healthy dishes such as Shrimp Scampi, as well as healthy versions of chocolate desserts. Sixteen (16) episodes have been produced and licensed by Michelle Valentine Media, LLC. and are continuously being licensed and distributed.
The Dating Show is a nationally-airing, 7-episode half-hour television show, licensed to over 25 USA television stations and on various mobile apps. New TV stations license the show every week. The half-hour episodes feature romantic Florida travel; romantic wining & dining; cooking lessons for romantic dinners for two; interviews with romance novel authors; “Dear Michelle Valentine” advice panel segments, dating games, available singles looking for love, and more! Hosted by Michelle Valentine, B.A. Psychology, an Author and newspaper Advice Columnist, she is known as “Orlando’s Oprah” and has developed a local and international following.
Michigan Shopping Network was a half-hour home-shopping program, which allowed local retailers a new & exciting way to advertise their products on TV. Michigan Shopping network aired on Booth Communications Cable, to 23,000 subscribers each weekend. The program aired up to 30 times each weekend to the most affluent cities in Michigan. Clothing, accessories, fine jewelry, and home products were the most popular items featured. Michigan Shopping Network was exciting, effective, and a profitable TV series for retailers.
Offstage was Michelle Valentine’s award-winning music entertainment TV show. The half-hour program aired on Omnicom Cablevision. Over 13 episodes were produced and aired with many, many reruns over the years. It was an extremely popular, locally-produced TV show seen in nine communities across the Detroit area. The weekly program mixed lively, spontaneous in-studio conversations with clips of musicians performing in nightclubs around the city. As a local musician/singer herself, Michelle Valentine says, “My idea here is to help local bands, to help them get some good exposure. We’re always out scouting (for bands), looking for alternative rock, to country to whatever else is out there.” The program also taped live concerts, festivals, and interviews with international rock stars. Michelle Valentine schmoozed with many rock stars such as Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Metallica, Danzig, Pantera, Dream Theater, and many more. Oh, the behind-the-scene stories Michelle could tell!
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS
PRODUCTION CREW
Michelle Valentine
Television Host, Producer, Writer
Michelle Valentine graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, with a Bachelor of Arts degreee in Psychology. She hosts & produces the new, educational world travel TV show, “Love, Eat, Travel”. Concurrently she is seen on the air on two (2) other television programs: The “Michelle Valentine Show” and “The Dating Show” In addition to her hosting & producing her own TV talk show, Michelle Valentine is a “media darling” and a highly sought-after guest for other TV shows and news programs. She’s been a guest expert on national FOX TVand featured on national PBS titled “The Matchmaker“, a feature biography story about her life, and as a relationship expert on ABC/CBS/NBC news affiliates. She’s provided on-air call-in relationship advice on BBC radio and numerous other radio shows. Michelle Valentine‘s television career started when she was just a teenager, sort of as the “first Martha Stewart“, creating the concept of an arts & crafts TV program titled, “Michelle’s Craft Show“. In her late twenties, she went on to host & produce a music entertainment TV program, “Offstage“, which was voted “Best of Detroit” for entertainment TV show. Other television series Michelle Valentine has created, hosted, and produced: “Michigan Shopping Network” a local home-shopping program; “LVogue” a women’s fashion & beauty program; “Pets On Parade” an animal adoption program; and “Hamtramck’s Future” a community political program.
Lawrence Bakerman
Camera Operator & Editor
Lawrence Bakerman has been working as a recording engineer, record producer, musician/guitarist, video editor and videographer for over 30 years. He has been a musician since he was a child – to date, he has now written over 400 songs – and also at an early age, started filming his own independent horror movies. Lawrence Bakerman has also played in many bands, including his last one, which was signed and managed by famed rock manager Bill Aucoin (Kiss, Billy Idol, Billy Squire, etc.). Soon after his days of being a rock star were over, he opened his own music and video studio in Miami, Florida. His main account was for the television station, Univision, recording audio for much of their television programming. He also worked with local music and advertising companies, (such as Left Field Advertising), filming and editing numerous commercials, music videos, and videos for dozens of websites. Lawrence Bakerman has also recorded and produced many albums such as Distance Zero, Rudy, Electric Piquete, Mel Morman, RoqueZa and recorded many other top musicians such as Matt Kramer of Saigon Kick, Billy McKelvy of Young Turk as well as many of Bill Aucoin’s top artists. Today Lawrence Bakerman continues writing and recording music for publishing, as well as filming and editing for music videos and travel television programming.
Brent Solomon
Camera Operator
Brent Solomon has worked many projects for Walt Disney World, ESPN Wide World of Sports, University of Florida, Miss Florida Teen pageant, and numerous other sports games, beauty pageants, and travel videos. Brent Solomon owns Reel Deal Entertainment, a Costa Rica-based video production company, where he specialized in travel videos in South America. He also provides corporate video production, marketing videos, political campaigns, and demonstration and procedural content.
Charlette Wozniak
Historical Researcher
Charlette Wozniak graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education with a Major in History and a Minor in English. She holds a Florida Educators Certification, as well as being a Certified International T.E.F.L. (Teaching English to a Foreign Learner) Teacher. Charlette Wozniak is an international cruise traveler who has visited over 16 countries. She lives in Tampa, Florida, and has zest & vigor to continue her international travels, learning about the history, culture, and foods from around the world. Her dream is to run off to Italy someday, live in Rome, find & marry a handsome Italian man, and eat pasta every day!