A pioneer in comedic reality programming and a 35-year entertainment industry veteran, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning executive producer Vin Di Bona captivated television audiences when he introduced America's Funniest Home Videos in 1989. Hosted by Bob Saget for the first eight seasons, the series always has garnered high ratings at ABC—finishing in overall season rankings as high as number five. In Seasons 9 & 10, it was then re-invigorated with hosts Daisy Fuentes and John Fugelsang. In Season 11, Tom Bergeron took over hosting duties of the show, which is currently enjoying immense popularity on network, in syndication and cable as well. Di Bona has just completed producing and directing its 14th season of production for ABC landmarking the show’s 300th episode and making AFV the second longest running primetime show in the history of the network. A full twenty-two episode pick-up has been announced by ABC for fall of 2004. Just completed was principle photography on “The Long Weekend,” a feature film that uses outrageous videos “too hot” for TV as story points. Di Bona serves as an Executive Producer of the film. Also, Di Bona is currently executive producing two pilots, Straight Dates by Gay Mates (Bravo) and Defending Your Date (Comedy Central). For the 2004 syndication season, Di Bona will be Executive Producing eighty episodes of That’s Funny, a comedy clip and hidden camera show.

In 2002, Di Bona executive produced 4 one-hour episodes of The Dating Experiment, which aired in June on ABC. This was preceded by Meet the Marks, a highly innovative reality sitcom for FOX.

Di Bona, adding the element of performance to his concept of spontaneous "grass-roots" humor, created America's Funniest People in 1990. Hosted by Dave Coulier, the series was the only bona-fide hit of the season and ran for four years on ABC. 

After achieving unprecedented success in the reality arena, Di Bona branched into other areas of programming. He has produced three highly acclaimed movies-of-the-week, For the Love of Nancy and Touched By Evil for ABC and NBC’s Voices From Within. He ventured into cable programming with Sherman Oaks, a situation comedy for Showtime and Maximum Drive, a children’s motorized vehicles competition show for The Family Channel. Maximum Drive was nominated for the National Academy of Cable Programming's 16th annual Cable ACE Awards, the industry's top honor in the Children's Programming Series category. 

Di Bona has produced many reality-based specials for ABC including four I Survived A Disaster specials. Di Bona is also executive producer of 155 episodes of Show Me The Funny which premiered in the launch of the Fox Family network in 1998. Other series include The Big Moment, a prime time family game show for ABC, Disney Channel’s game show Off the Wall, Fox Family’s Extraordinary World of Animals and Richard Simmons’ Dream Maker for daytime syndication. 

Prior to founding Vin Di Bona Productions, Di Bona produced the special Papal Spacebridge ’87, which documented Pope John Paul II’s visit to the U.S., as well as the pilot and first season of the Richard Dean Anderson action series MacGyver. From 1981-83, he produced more than 460 daily and weekly editions of Entertainment Tonight, guiding the series toward its status as a syndication icon.

Di Bona, an eight-time Emmy Award nominee, has won four Emmys as a producer: three for the documentaries Down at the Dunbar (for which he also won a Peabody Award), Zoot Suit: The Play and the Promise and Streets of Anger, Streets of Hope; and another for the series Project Parenting.

Di Bona also executive produced Chicken Soup For The Soul in 1999/2000, a series based on the best-selling book for PAX TV.