| Joby Harte | |
| Birth Date: | 30 January 1982 |
| Origin: | London, England |
| Occupation: | Television presenter |
| Years Active: | 1998–present |
Joby Harte is a British television personality and talent manager.
He has worked on many television shows including the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. Joby was part of the original production team and played a role in the creation of the worldwide hit reality series Pop Idol along with series producer Ken Warwick.
As a television actor, Harte's credits include "the baker" on the ITV children's show SMTV Live. Before being a warm-up artist, he was a radio presenter and assistant head of music for local UK radio station 97.6 Chiltern FM.
In 2009, Harte created the company Hot Rock Media, Inc. Hot Rock Media acquired offices at the NBC Burbank Studios and partnered with talent managers Paul Cohen and Sheri Anderson Thomas of Cohen Thomas Management. The company became, The Partnership LA, and was representing 22 clients including actors and singers in film and television.
Harte was the host[1] of the Hub Network (now Discovery Family) TV show Majors & Minors, which was produced by Brandy Norwood which premiered on 23 September 2011 and ran for 1 season on Hub. The show was created and cohosted by E.Kidd Bogart.
Harte worked with Columbia Records and Fulwell 73 on the NBC primetime One Direction special where he interviewed the band. From there he met Ben Winston who hired him to work on the then new CBS show The Late Late Show with James Corden. Harte was one of the original production team that launched the series and was awarded an Emmy for his contribution to Carpool Karaoke. Harte left the series in 2018 to focus on his management obligations.
Harte signed and developed many young stars, notably including Amir O'Neil (NBC's Marlon), Amari O'Neil (ABC's The Wonder Years), Ashely Jewel, GoldieBlox, Brandon Perea, (Universal Pictures, Nope), Joshua Bassett (Disney+,), Ricky Garcia (Universal Pictures, Bigger Fatter Liar) Emery Kelly (Netflix, Alexa and Katie) and Disney Channel actor Asher Angel, who was in the WB franchise movie Shazam. Angel played the starring role of Billy Batson in the movie.
In 2018 Harte teamed up with Veteran music manager Johnny Wright to manage the winning act of the ABC primetime series Boyband. The band was named In Real Life and were signed to Hollywood Records where they went on to have short success from 2017 to 2019 and had 9 top 40 hits. They Disbanded in 2020. Harte continues to represent Brady Tutton from the band for Film and TV. Brady Tutton had success with writing on the KPOP platinum album Peaches for KAI. He also represents Chance Perez who most recently portrayed the Black Power Ranger, Javi, in the Netflix reboot.
Harte continued his relationship with Wright and they shared Asher Angel in the music space. They put him with record label Hitco under the eye of musical genius LA Reid. Angels first release with the label was One Thought Away feat Wiz Kalifa which became the number 1 video on YouTube for 3 days. The video was released in April 2019 shortly after the release of the 1st Shazam movie. He would make a few more songs and music videos, several of which debuted on Entertainment Tonight.
Today, along with management, Harte produces motion picture Film and Television through his company Attentive Entertainment.
Note: Unless noted, these roles are behind-the-scenes work.