Ken Basin

Biography

Ken Basin is a veteran business affairs and operations executive with leadership roles at Riot Games, Paramount Television Studios, Sony Pictures Television, and Amazon Studios. At Riot, he helped launch the company’s in-house film and TV studio and executive produced Season 2 of the Emmy-winning Arcane. Previously, he oversaw major dealmaking at Paramount on series including 13 Reasons Why and Shantaram, and was an early business affairs hire at both Amazon Studios and Sony. Basin is the author of The Business of Television, regarded as a leading industry reference, and has written for Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Puck, and The Ankler. He has taught Entertainment and Media Law at Harvard Law School since 2014 and has also served on the faculties of UCLA and Southwestern Law School. He also was the last contestant on the 10th Anniversary Special of the U.S. version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (on August 23, 2009). Unfortunately becoming the first person in the U.S. to miss the $1,000,000 question, thus losing $475,000 and leaving with $25,000.