Television Production
He was offered the position of U.S. Representative for Prime Television, an Australian broadcast network. He worked as a liaison between the American production companies and the network's executives. Prime was an aggregator of television programming, supplying programming for local stations. Jett developed projects for these stations to produce, in addition to finding new programs from the United States for them to broadcast.
After a few years he grew tired of the long distance travel, and wanted to stay near his home in West Hollywood, California. He accepted a position as a coordinator for the CBS Television City comedy casting department. This position allowed him to find up-and-coming comedy talent in various Equity-waiver theatres and comedy clubs, and arrange meetings between those comedians and various casting executives.
By the time he was 40, Jett had lost 40 friends to the AIDS epidemic. He began volunteer work with the charitable organizations Aid For AIDS, Elizabeth Taylor’s amfAR, and Cable Positive.
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