Alex Marengo is a multi-award winning executive producer of blue-chip documentary and drama projects, with a background as a director, writer and producer of numerous high-end films.
He was most recently executive producer of the Netflix multiple top ten hit anthology Trainwreck and of their feature, Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy – a world-wide top ten hit and the year’s most-watched non-crime/celebrity documentary on the service. Also winner of the Emmy for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary and nominated for Outstanding Graphic Design. Before that, Alex exec’d The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker – number one in movies on Netflix in the UK and US and a global top ten hit; and The Most Hated Man on the Internet – also a global top ten hit on Netflix. Previous series for Netflix include Bad Sport, nominated for a Sports Emmy and Killer Ratings, a story of drugs crime and political corruption set in Brazil, where it was a huge ratings success.
In 2017, Alex was an executive producer of real-life drama-doc series, True Horror for Channel 4 and Eleven Film. Before that, he was co-executive producer of one of Netflix’s first high-end specialist factual commissions, Captive for Lightbox Media.
Alex has taken the creative lead on the first runs of several hit shows including Mark Burnett and History Channel’s dramatisation of The Bible – a blockbusting ratings hit and record-selling DVD box set – and C4 / Discovery Channel’s I Shouldn’t Be Alive, which returned for seven series.
Outside specialist factual and drama Alex has had success in other genres such as obs-doc, most recently Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet for Double Act TV which ran for eight seasons as Animal Planet’s top rated show.
Alex spent a year as International Development Lead for BBC TV History, working up co-productions such as the landmark UK / German history series The Celts.
His awards and nominations include Emmys, BAFTA, RTS, Cable Ace, BANFF and a Peabody – for one-offs and series across a range of subject areas from arts, science, history and adventure to feature length drama-docs and live-event broadcasts.