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| x Mark Frost | Twin Peaks |
Mark Frost (born November 25, 1953) is an American novelist, television/film writer, director, who is best known as a writer for the TV show Hill Street Blues and co-creator of the show Twin Peaks.
He was born in New York City, but moved with his...
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| American Chronicles | |||
| Buddy Faro | |||
| x David Lynch |
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Twin Peaks |
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, comic book artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been...
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| On the Air | |||
| Hotel Room | |||
| American Chronicles | |||
| x Alan Ball |
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Six Feet Under |
Alan E. Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer, director, actor and producer for film, theatre and television.
Ball was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Frank and Mary Ball, an aircraft inspector and a homemaker. He attended high school in...
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| True Blood | |||
| Oh, Grow Up | |||
| x Jerry Seinfeld |
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Seinfeld |
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created...
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| x Larry David |
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Curb Your Enthusiasm |
Lawrence Gene "Larry" David (born July 2, 1947) is an American actor, writer, comedian, and producer. He is best known as the co-creator (with Jerry Seinfeld), head writer, and executive producer of the television series Seinfeld from 1989 to 1996,...
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| Seinfeld | |||
| x Aaron Sorkin |
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Sports Night |
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an Academy and Emmy award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,...
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| The West Wing | |||
| Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | |||
| The Newsroom | |||
| x Rob Thomas | Veronica Mars |
Rob Thomas is an author.
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| Party Down | |||
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| x Amy Sherman-Palladino | Gilmore Girls |
Amy Sherman-Palladino (née Sherman) is an American television writer, director, and producer who is best known as the creator of the television series Gilmore Girls.
Sherman-Palladino is married to writer and producer Daniel Palladino. Her parents...
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| The Return of Jezebel James | |||
| Love and Marriage | |||
| Love and Marriage (1996) | |||
| Bunheads | |||
| x Michael Crichton |
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ER |
John Michael Crichton ( /ˈkraɪtən/; rhymes with frighten; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008), best known as Michael Crichton, was an American best-selling author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction...
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| Beyond Westworld | |||
| x Mitchell Hurwitz | Arrested Development |
Mitchell D. Hurwitz (born May 29, 1963) is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator of the television sitcom Arrested Development as well as the co-creator of The Ellen Show, and a contributor to The John...
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| Veep | |||
| Class Dismissed | |||
| The Ellen Show | |||
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| x James Burrows | Cheers |
James Edward Burrows (born December 30, 1940) is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s.
Burrows was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Ruth Levinson and Abe Burrows, who was a well-known composer...
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| The Tortellis | |||
| Cheers | |||
| x Glen Charles | Cheers |
Glen Gerald Charles (born on February 18, 1943) and Les Charles are American writers and producers, notably of Taxi and Cheers.
Glen attended the University of Redlands, California and earned a B.A. in English. Glen began his professional life as an...
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| x Les Charles | Cheers |
Les Charles was an American writer and producer most famous for co-creating the television comedy series Cheers.
He began his television career with his brother, Glen Charles. The two were writer-producers for The Bob Newhart Show, created and...
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| x David Angell | Frasier |
David Lawrence Angell (April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001) was an American producer of sitcoms. Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series Frasier. Angell and...
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| Wings | |||
| Jake and the Fatman | |||
| Encore! Encore! | |||
| x Peter Casey | Frasier | ||
| x Matt Groening |
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The Simpsons |
Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening ( /ˈɡreɪnɪŋ/ GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (1978–present) as well as two successful television series, The...
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| Futurama | |||
| The Tracey Ullman Show Simpsons Shorts | |||
| Clerks: The Animated Series | |||
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| x Jeffrey Lieber | Lost |
Jeffrey Lieber is a screenwriter for both television and film. He was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States and attended Evanston Township High School. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned a BFA in acting from...
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| x J.J. Abrams |
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Alias |
Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor, and composer.
He is well known for his work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. He wrote and produced...
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| Lost | |||
| Felicity | |||
| Fringe | |||
| The Catch | |||
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| x Damon Lindelof |
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Lost |
Damon Laurence Lindelof (born April 24, 1973) is an American television writer and executive, most recently noted as the co-creator and executive producer for the television series Lost. He has written for and produced Crossing Jordan, and wrote for...
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| x James Duff | The Closer |
James Duff (born September 3, 1955) is an American television writer, producer and director. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and has written plays and television screenplays. He is credited as the creator of the TV series The Closer.
When...
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| The D.A. (2004) | |||
| Major Crimes | |||
| x Max Mutchnick | Will & Grace |
Jason Nidorf Mutchnick (born November 11, 1965) is an American television producer. He has received an Emmy Award, a People's Choice Award, and several Golden Globe Award nominations.
Mutchnick was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Beverly...
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| Twins | |||
| Four Kings | |||
| Good Morning, Miami | |||
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| x David Kohan | Will & Grace |
David Sanford Kohan (born 16 April 1964) is an American television producer. After writing for The Wonder Years and The Dennis Miller Show, Kohan co-created and produced Will & Grace, Good Morning, Miami, Twins and Four Kings with Max Mutchnick....
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| x Bonnie Turner | That '70s Show |
Bonnie and Terry Turner are a husband-and-wife writing team, best known for creating the sitcoms 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996 - 2001) and That '70s Show (1998 - 2006), for NBC and FOX respectively, as well as That '80s Show for FOX in 2002, and...
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| That '80s Show | |||
| 3rd Rock from the Sun | |||
| Normal, Ohio | |||
| Days Like These | |||
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| x Mark Brazill | That '70s Show |
Mark Brazill (born April 16, 1962) is a television creator and executive producer. He is most well known as being the co-creator of the FOX situation comedy, That '70s Show which aired for eight seasons, and also co-created the series' in-direct...
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| x Aaron Spelling | Beverly Hills, 90210 |
Aaron Spelling (April 22, 1923 – June 23, 2006) was an American film and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's eponymous production company Spelling Television holds the record as the most prolific television writer, with 218 producer and...
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| The Love Boat | |||
| T. J. Hooker | |||
| Hotel | |||
| The Love Boat: The Next Wave | |||
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| x Ricky Gervais |
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The Office |
Ricky Dene Gervais (English pronunciation: /dʒərˈveɪz/,; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter.
Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and...
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| The Office | |||
| La Job | |||
| Extras | |||
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| x Oprah Winfrey |
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The Oprah Winfrey Show |
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest...
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| Brewster Place | |||
| Oprah After The Show | |||
| Dr. Phil | |||
| Rachael Ray | |||
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| x Gene Roddenberry |
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Star Trek: The Original Series |
Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up...
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation | |||
| Star Trek: Phase II | |||
| Earth: Final Conflict | |||
| Starship Exeter | |||
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| x David Shore |
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House |
David Shore (born July 3, 1959 London, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, and former lawyer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. Shore became known for his work on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South, also producing many...
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| Winters | |||
| x Mike Judge |
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King of the Hill |
Michael Craig Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American animator, film director, writer and voice actor, best known as the creator and star of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head (1993–1997, 2011–present), King of the Hill (1997...
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| Beavis and Butt-head | |||
| The Goode Family | |||
| x Greg Daniels |
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King of the Hill |
Gregory Martin "Greg" Daniels (born June 13, 1963) is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. He is known for his work on several television series, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, King of the Hill and The Office, with all...
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| The Office | |||
| The Office spinoff | |||
| Parks and Recreation | |||
| x Tim Kring |
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Heroes |
Richard Timothy "Tim" Kring (born July 9, 1957) is a U.S. screenwriter and television producer, best known for his creation of the drama series Strange World, Crossing Jordan, Heroes, and Touch.
Kring is Jewish. He graduated from the University of...
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| Strange World | |||
| Crossing Jordan | |||
| Heroes: Origins | |||
| Misfits of Science | |||
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| x Bill Lawrence |
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Spin City |
William Van Duzer Lawrence IV (known as Bill Lawrence, born December 26, 1968) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known as the creator of Scrubs and co-creator of Cougar Town. Lawrence is married to the actress Christa Miller...
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| Scrubs | |||
| Nobody's Watching | |||
| Clone High | |||
| Scrubs: Interns | |||
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| x Mel Brooks |
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Get Smart |
Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a stand-up...
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| Spaceballs: The TV Series | |||
| When Things Were Rotten | |||
| The Nutt House | |||
| x Buck Henry | Get Smart |
Henry Zuckerman, better known as Buck Henry (born December 9, 1930), is an American actor, writer, film director, and television director.
Henry was born in New York City, the son of silent film actress Ruth Taylor and Paul Stuart Zuckerman (April...
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| Quark | |||
| Captain Nice | |||
| x Ronald D. Moore |
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Battlestar Galactica |
Ronald Dowl Moore (born July 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on Star Trek and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, for which he won a Peabody and an Emmy Award.
Moore was...
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| Battlestar Galactica (The Miniseries) | |||
| Caprica | |||
| Virtuality | |||
| x Mike Lloyd Ross | Salvage 1 | ||
| x David Simon |
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The Wire |
David Simon (born 1960) is an American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years. He wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in...
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| Treme | |||
| The Corner | |||
| Generation Kill | |||
| x Donald Bellisario |
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Magnum, P.I. |
Donald Paul Bellisario (born August 8, 1935) is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and sometimes wrote episodes for the TV series Magnum, P.I., Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS. He has often included military veterans...
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| JAG | |||
| First Monday | |||
| Airwolf | |||
| Tales of the Gold Monkey | |||
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| x Glen A. Larson | Magnum, P.I. |
Glen Albert Larson (born January 3, 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an American television producer and writer best known as the creator of the television series Battlestar Galactica, The Fall Guy, Magnum, P.I., and Knight Rider.
Larson began...
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| Galactica 1980 | |||
| Knight Rider | |||
| Quincy, M.E. | |||
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| x Robert Popper | Look Around You |
Robert Popper is a BAFTA winning comedy producer, writer and actor, best known as co-creator of the mock BBC documentary Look Around You, in which he also plays the part of Jack Morgan. He also wrote the books The Timewaster Letters, The Return of...
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| Friday Night Dinner | |||
| x Peter Serafinowicz |
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Look Around You |
Peter Szymon Serafinowicz ( /sɛrəˈfɪnəwɪtʃ/; born 10 July 1972) is an English actor, comedian, writer, composer, voice artist and occasional director.
Serafinowicz was born in Liverpool, England. He attended Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic...
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| The Peter Serafinowicz Show | |||
| x Scott Peters | The 4400 |
Scott Peters is a Canadian television producer, television director and screenwriter, most probably known for his involvement in writing, co-creating and producing for the science fiction television series The 4400. He is also the head writer of the...
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| x René Echevarria | The 4400 |
René Echevarria is an American-Cuban screenwriter and film producer.
Echevarria began his career as an amateur screenwriter submitting unsolicited scripts to the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After using a few of his stories, they...
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| x Larry Gelbart | M*A*S*H |
Larry Simon Gelbart (February 25, 1928 – September 11, 2009) was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author.
Gelbart was born in Chicago to Jewish immigrants Harry Gelbart ("a barber since his half of a childhood in Latvia")...
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| Karen | |||
| Roll Out | |||
| x Garry Marshall | Mork and Mindy |
Garry Kent Marshall (born November 13, 1934) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. His notable credits include creating Happy Days and The Odd Couple and directing Nothing In Common, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Valentine's Day, and...
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| Happy Days | |||
| Makin' It | |||
| Laverne & Shirley | |||
| Hey, Landlord | |||
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| x Charlie Rose |
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Charlie Rose |
Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991 he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993. He has also co-anchored CBS This...
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| The Fortress | |||
| x Dick Wolf |
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Law & Order |
Richard Anthony "Dick" Wolf (born December 20, 1946) is an American producer, specializing in crime dramas such as Miami Vice and the Law & Order franchise. Throughout his career he has won several awards including an Emmy Award and a star on the...
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| Law & Order: Trial by Jury | |||
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | |||
| New York Undercover | |||
| Crime & Punishment | |||
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| x Kay Mellor | The Chase |
Kay Mellor, OBE (born Kay Daniel in 1951) is an English actress, scriptwriter, and director best known for her work on several successful television drama series.
Mellor was born in Leeds, Yorkshire to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother. She...
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| Fat Friends | |||
| Band of Gold | |||
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| x Eric Monte | Good Times |
Eric Monte (born 1944) is an American screenwriter who has written for and created notable shows depicting 1970s African American culture.
Born Kenneth Williams in Chicago and raised in the Cabrini–Green housing project, Monte dropped out of high...
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| What's Happening Now!! | |||
| What's Happening!! | |||
| x Sydney Newman | Police Surgeon |
Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman was...
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| Adam Adamant Lives! | |||
| The Avengers | |||
| Plateau of Fear | |||
| The Wednesday Play | |||
| x C. E. Webber |
Cecil Edwin Webber was a British television writer and playwright. He is best remembered for his contribution to the creation of the famous science-fiction series Doctor Who while working as a staff writer for the BBC in the early 1960s. Although...
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| x Donald Wilson |
Donald Wilson (1 September 1910, Dunblane, Scotland – 6 March 2002, Gloucestershire, England) was a British television writer and producer, best known for his work on the BBC's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga in 1967.
His initial career was in the...
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| x Chris Morris |
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Nathan Barley |
Christopher Morris (born 15 June 1962) is an English satirist, writer, director and actor. A former radio DJ, he is best known for anchoring the spoof news and current affairs television programmes The Day Today and Brass Eye, as well as his...
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| Jam | |||
| Brass Eye | |||
| The Day Today | |||
| x J. Michael Straczynski |
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Babylon 5 |
Joseph Michael Straczynski (IPA: /strəˈzɪn.ski/, born July 17, 1954), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in films, television series,...
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| Babylon 5: The Lost Tales | |||
| Crusade | |||
| Jeremiah | |||
| Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors | |||
| x Armando Iannucci | Time Trumpet |
Armando Giovanni Iannucci ( /ɑrˈmændoʊ jəˈnuːtʃi/; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish comedian, satirist, writer, director, performer and radio producer. Born in Glasgow, he studied at Oxford University and left graduate work on a PhD about John...
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| I'm Alan Partridge | |||
| Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge | |||
| The Armando Iannucci Shows | |||
| The Thick of It | |||
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| x Chris Carter |
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Millennium |
Christopher Carl Carter (born October 13, 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He is the creator of The X-Files and Millennium.
Upon the creation and production of The X-Files in 1993, Chris Carter started a production...
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| Harsh Realm | |||
| The X-Files | |||
| The Lone Gunmen | |||
| x The Jim Henson Company |
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Farscape |
The Jim Henson Company, an American entertainment organization, traces its origins to the founding of Muppets, Inc. in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets. The Muppets helped the company gain worldwide acclaim in family...
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| Muppets Tonight | |||
| Dinosaurs | |||
| x Jhonen Vasquez |
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Invader Zim |
Jhonen C. Vasquez (born September 1, 1974), also known as Chancre Scolex, or simply Mr. Scolex, is an American comic book writer, cartoonist and music video director. He is best known for creating the animated series Invader Zim, which aired on...
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| x Tite Kubo | Bleach |
Noriaki Kubo (久保 宣章, Kubo Noriaki, born June 26, 1977), known by his pen name Tite Kubo (久保 帯人, Kubo Taito), is a Japanese manga artist. His most significant work is the manga series Bleach.
Kubo was the son of a town council member in Fuchu, Aki...
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