Zev Shalev is an Israeli-South African television producer, who has worked predominantly in Canada and the United States.
[2] Born in Israel, he moved with his family to South Africa in childhood, and began his career as a journalist and producer for Radio 702 in Johannesburg.
[1] During his time as producer of that show, he became particularly noted for a feature which saw a man and a woman confined to a loft for one week with only a credit card and the Internet;[3] by 2001 he had expanded the concept into U8TV: The Lofters, which placed a group of young Canadians in a Real World-style communal housing situation while working in television production as hosts of various talk and entertainment newsmagazine series.
[4] After the station cancelled its news programming in 2005, he moved to the Global Television Network to become the founding producer of Entertainment Tonight Canada.
[7] He left CBS in at the end of 2009,[8] and joined Harpo Productions in 2010 to become executive producer of The Nate Berkus Show.