Who We Are

Thinkfactory Media is a full-service production company that creates content for an array of television networks, streaming and digital platforms. Based in Los Angeles and Nashville, and run by CEO and Emmy-nominated veteran producer Adam Reed, Thinkfactory is revered for its breadth of series and franchises, encompassing bold and unexpected subjects that captivate America’s heartland. The company’s recent series and long-running hits include Toby Keith: American Icon for NBC, splashy formats such as TBS’s Rat in the Kitchen and WEtv juggernaut Marriage Boot Camp, as well as hit docuseries spanning Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels (A&E), Mama June (WE tv), Carole Baskin’s Cage Fight (discovery+) and Addicted to Marriage (TLC).

Thinkfactory’s Marriage Boot Camp empire for WEtv encompasses long-running flagship series and ratings monster Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars, as well as spinoffs Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition and Hip Hop Edition. Meanwhile, Thinkfactory’s other WEtv franchise Mama June – which debuted in 2017 as the highest-rated series premiere in WE tv network history – continues to set new ratings milestones for the network franchise.

The company’s cooking competition for TBS, Rat in the Kitchen, featured comedian Natasha Leggero and renowned chef Ludo Lefebvre – while Thinkfactory’s Discovery+ debut, Carole Baskin’s Cage Fight, followed the Tiger King star on her mission to end the abuse of big cats.

Throughout the last 25 years, Thinkfactory has produced content for nearly every network and streamer with genres spanning docu-series, formats, feature-length documentaries, live and docu-soaps, as well as scripted dramas, movies-of-the-week and concert specials. Additional projects include What’s it Worth? with Jeff Foxworthy, Nature Gone Wild and the two-hour special Dog and Beth: Fight of Their Lives (all for A&E); Million Dollar Matchmaker (WEtv); the Divas franchise (TV One), including Hollywood DivasR&B Divas: Atlanta and R&B Divas: Los Angeles; as well as Dogg After Dark, hosted by Snoop Dogg (MTV); among many more.

Thinkfactory has also produced a range of critically acclaimed scripted hits – from History’s Emmy and Golden Globe-winning mini-series Hatfields & McCoys which was the highest rated mini-series in the history of TV, starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton, to the network’s 10-hour television event Texas Rising and CMT’s original movie Sun Records, which attracted nearly three million viewers and led CMT Originals to its most-watched night in channel history. 

Underscored by its company tagline “Any Story. Any Genre.” – Thinkfactory continues to be a best in class leader in all genres and formats of content, with a deep focus on the spirit of the heartland.