He is also a partner at entertainment consulting firm, Attentional Inc., which advises major broadcasters, studios and producers on content strategy.
His one-hour pilot Runaways was set up at Fox 21 Television Studios with Gary Randall as the producer.
Shaikh's work in films includes his winning the Writers Guild of America’s Feature Access Project with his screenplay The Ignoble Rise of Lord Rex.
[11][12] In 2010, Shaikh adapted A Matter of Honour, the best-selling novel of renowned British novelist Jeffrey Archer.
In the same year, he co-adapted BBC journalist John Simpson's memoirs Strange Places: Questionable People into the feature film CANNON FODDER, about British mercenary activity in late 1970s Southern Africa.