Tyson Hepburn


Tyson Hepburn is a Vancouver-based Television creator, director and producer. He is also an Executive Producer at Mayhem Entertainment.

Career

Tyson's career has mainly focused on Documentaries and Reality television productions in which he has contributed as creator, director as well as producer.
Pyros, Jacked! and Cold Water Cowboys are few of the most notable TV series created by Hepburn. Cold Water Cowboys, a series about the struggle of Newfoundland fishermen received the highest ratings ever as a Discovery Channel premiere. The series was distributed by Netflix internationally. On the other hand, Pyros was aired in more than 120 countries.
Hepburn worked with his school friend, John Driftmier, to develop the series Dangerous Flights and Cold Water Cowboys. The presented the latter to Paperny Entertainment in January, 2013. However, in a month, Driftmier lost his life in a plane crash while filming the show Dangerous Flights making these shows their final collaboration. Hepburn continued Newfoundland in April soon to start filming and complete the show.
Since then, Tyson formed Mayhem Entertainment with producing partner Matt Shewchuck and created ‘Rust Valley Restorers’ together in 2017. The series has gone on to become a global hit on History Channel Canada and Netflix International. In early 2020, the series garnered a nomination for the Canadian Screen Awards.

Television series