President | Executive Producer, Showrunner, & Writer
Dave Check is an established veteran of original programming,
amassing over 25 EMMYs and a Peabody Award over three decades.
After a 17-year run as the Executive Producer of MLB
Productions, he now spearheads his own company specializing in
unscripted storytelling, Check Point Productions.
Notably, Check served as EP on two 30 for 30 films:
the Peabody-winning “Four Days in October”, and the
critically-acclaimed “Brothers in Exile,” which was
heralded by Sports Illustrated as the best sports documentary of
the year. Check also played significant roles in two of the
top-selling sports home videos of all-time:
Michael Jordan: Come Fly With Me, (1989: Writer/Associate
Producer) and
Faith Rewarded: The Story of the 2004 Boston Red Sox.
(Executive Producer).
After starting his career at NBA Entertainment in 1987,
Check joined MLB Productions as its Executive Producer in
1998. He supervised over 70 hours of premium award winning
original programming annually, directing editorial and mentoring
over 40 staffers. Infusing his production expertise into deal
making, Check played a vital role in creating new programming
opportunities. As such, he was instrumental in adding high
profile partners to the roster of MLB Productions’ clients
including FOX, ESPN, HBO, Showtime, EPIX, MLB Network, YES
Network, and SNY.
In 2011, Check led the launch of
the new Showtime series, The Franchise and presided over
the production of the groundbreaking episodic that won a
National Sports EMMY for Best Edited Series. At the same time,
he helped jumpstart and later steward a co-production between
MLB and HBO— Derek Jeter 3K —which chronicled the Yankee
Captain’s memorable journey to 3000 hits. He was also a
co-Executive Producer on the acclaimed documentary
Fastball.
In March of 2015, Check started Check Point Productions.
Soon after, Showtime Sports recruited Check to serve as
Executive Producer/Writer of
A Season with Notre Dame Football, a documentary series
that featured 13 episodes over the course of 14 weeks. He
returned in 2016 (Florida State) and 2017
(Naval Academy), immersing himself in all facets of
production. Putting a premium on storytelling, quick turnaround
content and access, A Season with... has been critically
acclaimed.
Check continued to produce premium long form content for
Showtime, show-running a 4-part series on sports gambling,
Action, that premiered in late March 2019. In recent
years, he was EP/Writer on two ESPN+ series:
SneakerCenter–an 8-part sneaker culture series–and
Quest For The Stanley Cup–an all-access quick turnaround
series documenting the 2021 NHL playoffs. Most recently, he
spearheaded production on an 8-part series on Texas high school
football for HBO Max & Curiosity Stream, titled
4th and Forever: Desoto, and served as the key Executive
Producer on Facing Nolan, the definitive documentary on
Texas baseball legend Nolan Ryan, which premiered at SXSW in
March of 2022.
In addition, Check has expanded into storytelling beyond sports,
teaming up with acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh to serve as
Executive Producer/Show-runner for a 5-part series on military
justice, Leavenworth, for STARZ in 2019.
