Mark S. Allen

Mark S. Allen Mark S Allen is a four time Emmy Award winning television producer and host and is a writer/producer of the film APParition starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Horror Story) and Kevin Pollak (Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men). He is part of the revolutionary digital first tv morning show MORNING BLEND on ABC10 and host at NOW100.5. He is also executive producer/host of the Emmy Award winning syndicated movie show EXTRA BUTTER TV. His career started at ABC10, hosting the National show SCRATCH with Lisa Ling. He went on to win three Emmy Awards and was host of his own show for two years on Comedy Central. His movie show airs in 27 countries and 168 million homes worldwide both on AFN and TEGNA owned ABC station. His segment on the YouTube channel SMOSH has 38 million views and growing. He's logged over 25,000 hours of live local television as well as visiting the sets of countless blockbusters all over the World. He has been Mark Zuckerberg's guest at the Facebook campus on numerous occasions to host celebrity movie screening Q&As and has done the same for two California governors. He has a Guinness World Record for jalapeño pepper eating, and the local record for most bones broken on local TV; in fact, he defied recent great white shark attacks in the San Francisco Bay by swimming all the way from the Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge on live TV. His book "100 THINGS TO DO IN SACRAMENTO BEFORE YOU DIE" is in bookstores throughout California and is an Amazon certified #1 new release. Mark has returned to his TV home, ABC 10 and is a prominent part of the morning and evening shows. and graduated from Permian High School the school and era in which the New York Times best-selling book "Friday Night Lights" was written. Allen has been quoted as saying he watched a lot of TV, mainly adult shows like The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Bob Newhart Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. These shows later served as inspiration to him in his career. In college, he studied theater arts, transferring from Texas Wesleyan University to California State University, San Bernardino to UCLA and finally to Sacramento State University, where he finished his degree. All the while, he continued working radio jobs, hoping somehow to parlay that into television.