Producer, TPC Productions

Tim Cherry is an award-winning producer, writer, director and podcast host.

The 1986 Television and Communications Media graduate has spent much of his career working in the Canadian television sphere, often collaborating with his father, the legendary hockey commentator and television personality, Don Cherry.

Tim was a screenwriter and executive producer on the CBC mini-series Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story in 2010, which was nominated for a Gemini Award for best screenwriter in a dramatic production, and Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II in 2012, which was nominated for a Gemini for best mini-series.

Together, spanning eight hours of scripted drama, the two mini-series set a rating record for a CBC drama, which still stands today, with more than 1.3 million viewers. The shows were nominated for a total of 19 awards.

He was co-creator, executive producer and writer on 30 volumes of Don Cherry's Rock'em Sock'em Hockey, a series of hockey highlight videos released between 1989 and 2018. Each video featured NHL plays, goals, saves, bloopers, and hits, typically focusing on the preceding NHL season.

Between 1982 and 1993, Tim was a producer and writer on the Grapevine Show, which aired on CHCH-TV and TSN.

Outside of hockey, Tim was a writer and executive producer of Big City Fishing, airing on the World Fishing Network, as well as magazine shows Canada Golf Today, and Scores Golf World.

He directed and wrote a one-hour documentary called The Rapture: The Beginning of the End in 2014, and executive-produced Saving God in 2008, which can be seen on Amazon Video.

For 15 years, in the early 00s, he served as a scout for the Ontario Hockey League.

Tim has produced three Olympic Games for CTV. He was a chyron producer (broadcast graphics and real-time data visualizations for live television) for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, a hockey associate producer at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, and a field hockey replay associate producer at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games.

He was also a gymnastics chyron producer for the 1991 Pan Am Games in Havana.

Since November 2019, Tim has served as producer of Don Cherry's Grapevine podcast, which was voted by Apple as the biggest new podcast in Canada for 2020. The podcast has been a family affair, including Don and Tim, Tim’s late sister Cindy and Don’s grandson Del. The family has now produced close to 300 episodes recorded in Tim’s home.

Tim is a long-time member of the Writers Guild of Canada.