Committed to creating family-viewable and faith-based content that entertains, educates, empowers, and inspires!
Maryann Ridini Spencer is the founder and president of Ridini Entertainment Corporation, a content creation, public relations, and TV/Film/Video Production company. As an accomplished, award-winning TV/Film writer and producer and member of the Producers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America West, Maryann has written and produced a diverse range of projects. These include TV series, TV news programs, and television and film movie projects for such outlets as Cable News Network, USA Networks, SyFy Channel, Showtime Networks, The Movie Channel, Time Warner Cable, PBS-TV, and projects for network and multimedia syndication as well as foreign theatrical distribution. She is celebrated for co-producing/writing the teleplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Lost Valentine. Based on the James Michael Pratt novel, the movie stars Betty White and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Over fifteen million viewers tuned in to watch the film, winning CBS-TV ratings night. The film won the Faith and Freedom Movieguide® Award for inspiring American values and ideals at the nationally televised, star-studded 20th Annual Movieguide® Awards and has since become part of Hallmark’s Gold Crown (DVD) Collector’s Edition. It can also be live-streamed on Hallmark’s movie channels.
CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION
TV SERIES
Simply Delicious Living with Maryann®, the award-winning TV series (& blog) featuring Maryann’s healthy and sustainable recipes is broadcast in Southern California on PBS-TV (KVCR-TV), Dish Network, DirecTV, YouTube, and the Online Magazine.
Simply Delicious Living with Maryann® also appeared as a Print & Video Column at Ventura County Star, part of the USA Today Network, from 2010 to 2019.
ONLINE MAGAZINE
Savor the Best in Books, Food & Living with the Simply Delicious Living with Maryann® Online Magazine.
PODCASTS
LISTEN to the Simply Delicious Living with Maryann® PODCAST on Amazon Music, iTunes and on the SDL Podcast Channel.
UPCOMING TV & THEATRICAL PROJECTS
Future screenplays and series pilots written (and to be produced) by Maryann include: Lady in the Window (based on Maryann’s award-winning novel of the same name) and Once Upon a Cove Christmas, Ticket Home, The Good Heart (screenplay adaptations based on the novels by James Michael Pratt), The Art of Survival (based on the best-selling books The Art of Survival by Charles Pierce with J. Marlando and Din by J. Marlando), Friends Are Forever (based on the novel Husbands May Come and Go, But Friends Are Forever by Judith Marshall), To Jeffrey With Love (original screenplay of a true story), and Harrington House, (original series created and written by Maryann Ridini Spencer and Brian Oppenheimer), and other original screenplays.
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