Boden began his television work as a
cue card associate for
Barney McNulty, then as a
production assistant on the game show
Temptation. He then worked at
Paramount Television in research. He joined
CBS and was selected for the management training program, which resulted in a job as Program Executive in Daytime Programming. In the late 1990s, he worked as Vice President of Daytime Programming for
The Family Channel, where he supervised shows including ''
Shop 'til You Drop, Home & Family, Shopping Spree, and It Takes Two. As Vice President of Development at FX, he oversaw Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular and Personal fX: The Collectibles Show''. He has also held the titles of Senior Vice President of Product and Development for
Dick Clark Productions, as Senior Vice President of Programming for the
Fox Reality Channel, and as Senior Vice President of Reality and Game Shows for
Hasbro Studios. In 1999, Boden co-created
Greed for FOX with
Dick Clark. He then served as its showrunner, executive producer, and writer. The show aired on
FOX and was hosted by
Chuck Woolery. He was also showrunner and executive producer for
The Chase, an adaption of the
British game show, on the Game Show Network.
The Chase was nominated at the
41st Daytime Emmy Awards for the
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show.
James Holzhauer appeared on the show in 2014 and the show regained attention after Holzhauer's appearance on
Jeopardy!. Boden was featured as a game show expert in several interviews. In addition to his production work, he is an adjunct professor at
Syracuse University's
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. In 2022, he gave a
TEDx talk at Syracuse. ==Personal life==