Michael Mike Tollin born June 10 1955 is an American film director and filmtelevision producer His career highlights included Radio Coach Carter and Varsity Blues He frequently collaborates with Brian Robbins in which they own a production company together called TollinRobbins Productions They created and produced such shows like All That The Amanda Show Kenan Kel One Tree Hill Smallville What I Like About You The Bronx is Burning and a few others Tollin was the producer of the weekly highlights show for the United States Football League the springtime football league which played from 1983 through 1985 In 2009 he served as executive producer for the hourlong documentary Small Potatoes Who Killed the USFL for ESPNs 30 for 30 series He was also part of a number of the series films as one of the production members Tollin is originally from Philadelphia Pennsylvania Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Tollin licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia