ABC • Executive Producer • Seasons 1-4

Holey Moley

With a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, viewers call Holey Moley “one of, if not the funniest reality show on television” (IMDB.com). In this family-favorite game of mini-golf, 12 contestants put their miniature golf—and physical—skills to the test and face off in never-before-seen challenges on a larger-than-life course. Michael spearheaded development of the award-winning format, and is tasked with creating and executing the course design and now famous - and hilarious - holes like “Uranus”, “Polecano”, and fan favorite, “Double Dutch Courage En Fuego.”

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‘Holey Moley’ Is The Nation’s Finest Television Program

Holey Moley is a lot of things.

It’s a summer competition series that ABC recently rolled out for a second season. It’s an extreme mini-golf challenge that features very large, very elaborate holes that make your local mini-golf course look like the saddest little rinky-dink operation you’ve ever seen. It’s a spectacle to the ridiculous, featuring Wipeout-style physical challenges on every hole and people in costume and just the dumbest collection of ideas and commentary and human bodies flailing through the air that you’ve ever seen. It is also, for my money, the nation’s finest television program.

Holey Moley season 3 questions, answered: Steph Curry’s role, new and returning holes, and much more

While showrunner Charles Wachter oversees all creative on the show, “our executive producer who lives and breathes hole development and challenge design is Mike O’Sullivan,” Dening said. “Mike is tasked with essentially creating all the new holes for every season. Mike and his crack team, they think a lot about challenge first. What’s the world? What’s the challenge that we can lean into? We always like to draw from some sort of miniature golf nostalgia in some way, so there’s some sort of reference to classic miniature golf or things that we love from our childhood. But then also they look at crazy ideas for challenges and stunts, and potential obstacles that we could build a hole around.”