Chris Merrill

Chris Merrill has been a director, editor and camera operator for over 30 years.

His career spans a wide variety of television programming, including shooting and editing the wildlife television series "Safari" for the Outdoor Life Network from 1996-2001; shooting in Africa, India, Indonesia and other exotic locales. Technical director for over 150 episodes of the Marie Osmond talk show on Hallmark Channel. Shooting and directing Emmy winning humanitarian documentaries in Africa and Central America and editing over a thousand hours of broadcast programming - including shows for A&E, The Travel Channel and Discovery Networks.

He has directed all different kinds of multi-camera event broadcasts, including eleven seasons of the CW's Friday night series Masters of Illusion and the network broadcast of the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade for 14 years.. He's also directed the Hollywood Walk of Fame Honors, The Big Stage, The Christmas Caroler Challenge and Totally Weird & Funny Videos - all for CW. He has also directed a good amount of single camera programming, including Pop TV's street magic show Don't Blink and teen comedy This Just In.