Art Lyons
Co-Founder
Art Lyons Co-Founder of FWRD is an Executive Producer specializing in TV show development and creation. He has created shows for Discovery, Nat Geo, A&E, Lifetime, USA and many more.
Arts an experienced Head Of Development and Executive Producer. He is a skilled team leader who is constantly ideating his own show concepts and guiding a team to take their show ideas to the next level.
He delivers quality, innovative sizzle reels, decks and other sales materials.
He also is an experienced show runner and knows the ins and outs of making a show from concept to final delivery and that experience allows him to not only shoot for the moon with great show ideas, but also to build quality productions that deliver on the promise of the concept, on time and on budget. Art has a ton of enthusiasm for this business and always strive to bring big ideas, buzzy concepts and projects with great access/talent to market.
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Justin A Tucker
Founder / Executive Producer
JustinA.Tucker is an Executive
Producer, Show Creator and
Show runner for some of the largest
cable networks and production
companies in the business.
Justin began his career on the huge Syfy reality show Ghost Hunters. It was there that Justin found his love for the TV world.
Justin has developed, directed, produced and shownrun some of the most highly rated shows of all time like; Duck Dynasty for A&E, Miz and Mrs on USA, Auction Hunters of Spike, Gigolos on Showtime and Big Fix Alaska on Nat Geo.
As a Showrunner and Executive Producer Justin has overseen series and pilots for USA,A&E, Discovery Channel, Nat Geo, DIY, Animal Planet, BIO, G.A.C and Spike.
In 2016 Justin co-founded a full service content creation and production company FWRD Content. In it’s short time FWRD has created and sold series such as Straight Up Steve Austin to USA (14 Eps) and The Holy Fail to the digital platform Fullscreen (5 eps). FWRD also partnered with Wilshire studios to producer The Cromarties on USA (21 eps). In addition FWRD Content has shows in development with Discovery, AMC, A&E and Netflix.
More recently, Justin has positioned FWRD content into the commercial world. Joining forces with long time friend and critically acclaimed Director, Grant Livingston. Together Justin and Grant have produced and directed work for major brands such as Nike and Hasbro.
Under Justin’s guidance and as the new decade begins, FWRD Content will continue to grow it's dominance as an industry leader in the Television and Commercial industries.
FWRD Content is represented by William Morris Agency with point agents being Amir Shakalili and Brandon Currier.
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Chris Cagle
Producer / Director of Development
As Director Development, Chris Cagle is responsible for creating and developing new formats, talent driven docu-series and oversee's as a producer current company projects.
Christopher Cagle Is a well-rounded television, film producer who also spearheads FWRD’s content development in all genres.
Christopher has contributed to several pilots, films and groundbreaking series with several premier production companies and major networks over the past 7 years including NBC, USA, Travel Channel, Lifetime, A&E, Netflix and Amazon.
Having started his career in front of the camera, Chris soon segued into producing with a desire to create the world’s that talent can thrive in.
As Director of Development, Chris is fierce about stepping outside of the box and keeping ahead of the curve in a quickly changing landscape.
Chris is poised to be a major contributor towards the long-term success of FWRD Content.
A Connecticut native, Chris splits his time between the east and west coast.
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