Decker Watson

Decker Watson is a multi-Emmy-winning executive producer, writer and director. After nearly two decades documenting blue collar occupations the world over, Watson writes working class characters authentically while rendering their worlds with authority. Watson recently finished the feature screenplay Jones Locker and is developing his next feature film, as well as a tv series and a limited series. Watson is currently finishing postproduction on season one of his forthcoming Netflix offering as creator and executive producer. With a career built chronicling the world's deadliest professions, Watson honed his skills over land, air and sea in remote locales from Alaska's arctic to the Indian Himalayas. As the Executive Producer of Deadliest Catch and others Watson has overseen more than 300 hours of highly rated television typically the most watched of the night broadcast. Season 9 Watson steered the series towards a ratings increase of 12% for the premier (over season 8's inaugural episode). Season 10 debuted to the show's best ratings in three seasons and continued as the #1 cable show for all 16 weeks. Awards won include, multiple EMMYs for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Series, Real Screen Awards for Best Directing and Best Series, Telly Awards for Best Promo, multiple Reality TV Awards for Outstanding Series and Badass Crew, and several more nominations including the Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television, multiple Critic's Choice Awards for Outstanding Documentary or Reality Series, and lastly four EMMY nominations for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Series. Decker Watson was born in Connecticut in 1973. After completing his undergraduate degree at Northeastern University in Boston he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and spent the next decade on Madison Avenue as a copywriter and creative director. There, Watson collected awards ranging from EFFIEs to ADDYs working at agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather and McCann-Erickson (both New York) then his own boutique shop MadScience Creative (also New York). His clients included Budweiser, Sam Adams, Dos Equis, Rolling Rock, Burger King, Microsoft X-Box, SONY P2P, Dennis Publishing (Stuff, Maxim and Blender), Coke, Stella Artois, Caffeine Apparel and Viacom (WNEW FM) with annual budgets from $2M to $400M. In the months following 911, Watson moved to California to make the leap from advertising to Film and Television where he got his start working on a variety of projects for Warner Bros, New Line, HBO, History Channel, VH1, MTV, BET, Bravo and A&E among many others.