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| x Mark Frost | Twin Peaks |
Mark Frost (born November 25, 1953) is an American novelist, television/film writer, director, and executive producer. His work became famous in the seminal 1980s TV show Hill Street Blues. His other TV credits include Twin Peaks and On the Air. He...
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| American Chronicles | |||
| x David Lynch |
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Twin Peaks |
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). He also...
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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. He is noted for writing the film American Beauty, and creating and producing the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and True Blood....
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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 comedian, actor and writer, whoms style is often described as observational comedy. Aside from being a stand-up comedian, he is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of...
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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, producer, and film director. David is the co-creator and producer of two successful television comedies, Seinfeld (1989-1998) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000...
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| x Aaron Sorkin |
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Sports Night |
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night and The Farnsworth Invention.
After graduating from Syracuse...
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| The West Wing | |||
| Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | |||
| x Rob Thomas | Veronica Mars |
Rob Thomas (born August 15, 1965 in Sunnyside, Washington) is an American author, producer, and screenwriter, best known as the author of the 1996 novel Rats Saw God and creator of the television program Veronica Mars.
Thomas graduated from San...
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| Cupid | |||
| Cupid | |||
| Party down | |||
| 90210 | |||
| x Amy Sherman-Palladino | Gilmore Girls |
Amy Sherman-Palladino (née Sherman) is an American television writer and producer.
Sherman-Palladino is married to writer and producer Daniel Palladino.
Sherman-Palladino became a staff writer on Roseanne during the show's third season in 1990....
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| The Return of Jezebel James | |||
| x Michael Crichton |
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ER |
John Michael Crichton or Michael Crichton pronounced /ˈkraɪtən/ (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, producer, director, screenwriter, and medical school graduate, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical...
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| Beyond Westworld | |||
| x Mitchell Hurwitz | Arrested Development |
Mitchell 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 Larroquette...
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| The Thick of It | |||
| Class Dismissed | |||
| The Ellen Show | |||
| 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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| x Glen Charles | Cheers |
Glen Charles was born in Henderson, Nevada. He attended the University of Redlands, California and earned a B.A. in English. Charles began his professional life as an advertising copywriter, but moved into television. He began his television career...
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| x Les Charles | Cheers |
Les Charles was born in Henderson, Nevada. He attended the University of Redlands, California and earned a B.A. in English. Charles began his professional career as a high school English teacher, but moved into television.
He began his television...
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| x David Angell |
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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. He and his...
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| Wings | |||
| Jake and the Fatman | |||
| x Peter Casey | Frasier | ||
| x Matt Groening |
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The Simpsons |
Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening (pronounced /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 and the television series The Simpsons and Futurama....
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| Futurama | |||
| The Tracey Ullman Show Simpsons Shorts | |||
| Wigets | |||
| Clerks: The Animated Series | |||
| 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 is credited as a co-creator of the television series Lost.
ABC hired Lieber, based on his...
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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, composer, and founder of Bad Robot Productions. An Emmy and Golden Globe-winner, he is known as the creator or co-creator...
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| Lost | |||
| Felicity | |||
| Fringe | |||
| The Catch | |||
| 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 also written and produced Crossing Jordan, and wrote...
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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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| x Max Mutchnick | Will & Grace |
Jason Nidorf Mutchnick (born 11 November 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 | |||
| Boston Common | |||
| 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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| Twins | |||
| Four Kings | |||
| Good Morning, Miami | |||
| Boston Common | |||
| x Bonnie and Terry 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. They also created the ill-fated spin-off That '80s...
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| That '80s Show | |||
| 3rd Rock from the Sun | |||
| Normal, Ohio | |||
| x Mark Brazill | That '70s Show |
Mark Brazill (born April 16, 1962) is a television creator and executive producer.
Brazil is from Fredonia, NY. He based his sitcom That '70s Show upon Fredonia, NY. Brazill was a consulting producer and later a producer of NBC's 3rd Rock from the...
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| That '80s Show | |||
| x Aaron Spelling |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 |
Aaron Spelling (April 22, 1923 – June 23, 2006) was an American film and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's company holds the record as the most prolific television writer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits.
Spelling was born...
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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 (pronounced /dʒəˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, film-maker and broadcaster. Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co...
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| The Office | |||
| La Job | |||
| Extras | |||
| Le Bureau | |||
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| x Oprah Winfrey |
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The Oprah Winfrey Show |
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American media personality, actress, television producer, literary critic and magazine publisher, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated...
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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 screenwriter and producer. He created the American science-fiction series Star Trek, an accomplishment for which he was sometimes referred to as the "Great Bird of...
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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) is a Canadian-born writer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. As a former lawyer, Shore became known for his work on Family Law, NYPD Blue, and Due South. Shore also produced many episodes of...
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| Winters | |||
| x Mike Judge |
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King of the Hill |
Michael Craig "Mike" Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American animator, actor, voice actor, writer, director, and producer, best-known as the creator and star of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill. He also...
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| Beavis and Butt-head | |||
| The Goode Family | |||
| x Greg Daniels |
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King of the Hill |
Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director.
Daniels began his career as a writer on the HBO satirical news show Not Necessarily the News before moving to Saturday Night Live. There he spent three seasons at SNL,...
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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 an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his creation of the telelvision series Strange World, Crossing Jordan, and Heroes.
He has created three TV shows that have seen...
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| Strange World | |||
| Crossing Jordan | |||
| Heroes: Origins | |||
| Misfits of Science | |||
| x Bill Lawrence | Spin City |
Bill Lawrence (born December 26, 1968) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, best known as the creator of Scrubs. Lawrence is married to the actress Christa Miller, whom he cast on Scrubs as Jordan Sullivan, and they have three...
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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 |
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies....
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| Spaceballs: The TV Series | |||
| When Things Were Rotten | |||
| x Buck Henry |
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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 S. Zuckerman (April 15,...
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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 best known for his work on Star Trek and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series, for which he served as developer, writer, and...
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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 8 August 1935) is an American television producer and screenwriter. His latest television project was NCIS with writer Don McGill. Sources reported in May 2007 that Bellisario was leaving NCIS.
Bellisario was born in...
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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 A. Larson (born January 3, 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an American television producer and writer best known as creator of the series Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider in their original 1970s and 1980s incarnations, respectively....
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| Galactica 1980 | |||
| Knight Rider | |||
| Quincy, M.E. | |||
| Battlestar Galactica | |||
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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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| x Peter Serafinowicz |
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Look Around You |
Peter Szymon Serafinowicz (pronounced /sɛrəˈfɪnəwɪtʃ/; born 10 July 1972) is an English actor, comedian, writer, composer and voice artist.
Serafinowicz was born in Liverpool, England. He has Belarusian, Polish, and British heritage. He attended Our...
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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 creator and head...
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| x René Echevarria | The 4400 |
René Echevarria is a television writer and producer. He has written for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as the TV series Now and Again, Dark Angel and Medium, and is co-creator and writer of The 4400.
He is of...
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| x Larry Gelbart |
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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 | |||
| x Garry Marshall | Mork and Mindy |
Garry Kent Marshall (born November 13, 1934) is an American actor, director, writer and producer. His credits include creating Happy Days and directing Nothing In Common, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, and The Princess Diaries.
Marshall was born in...
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| Happy Days | |||
| Makin' It | |||
| Laverne & Shirley | |||
| Hey, Landlord | |||
| x Charlie Rose |
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Charlie Rose |
Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television interviewer and journalist.
Emmy Award-winning Charlie Rose entered television journalism full-time in 1974, when he became the managing editor of the PBS series Bill...
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| x Dick Wolf | Law & Order |
Richard Anthony Wolf (born December 20, 1946), usually billed as simply Dick Wolf, is an American Emmy Award-winning producer, specializing in crime dramas such as Miami Vice and the Law & Order franchise.
Wolf was born in New York City, the son of...
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| Law & Order: Trial by Jury | |||
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | |||
| New York Undercover | |||
| Crime & Punishment | |||
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| x BBC |
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Bargain Hunt |
The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world. The BBC is funded by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all United...
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| The Verdict | |||
| Blott on the Landscape | |||
| Thieves Like Us | |||
| Do Something Different | |||
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| x Kay Mellor | The Chase |
Kay Mellor, OBE (born 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 hadtwo brothers...
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| Fat Friends | |||
| x Eric Monte | Good Times |
Eric Monte (born Kenneth Williams circa 1944) is an American television writer who has written for and created notable shows depicting 1970s African American culture.
Born in Chicago and raised in the Cabrini-Green housing project, he dropped out of...
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| What's Happening Now!! | |||
| What's Happening!! | |||
| x Sydney Newman |
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Doctor Who |
Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, best remembered for the pioneering work he undertook in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. Initially a film editor...
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| Police Surgeon | |||
| Adam Adamant Lives! | |||
| The Avengers | |||
| x C. E. Webber | Doctor Who |
Cecil Edwin Webber (known as C. E. Webber and nicknamed Bunny by his colleagues) 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...
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| x Donald Wilson | Doctor Who |
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 5 September 1965 in Bristol) is an English comedian, writer, director, actor and former radio DJ.
Morris began his career in radio before moving into television. He found fame in the nineties fronting the spoof current...
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| Jam | |||
| Brass Eye | |||
| The Day Today | |||
| x J. Michael Straczynski |
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Babylon 5 |
Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer/producer. He works in a variety of media, including films, television series, novels,...
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| Babylon 5: The Lost Tales | |||
| Crusade | |||
| Jeremiah | |||
| Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors | |||
| x Armando Iannucci |
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Time Trumpet |
Armando Giovanni Iannucci (pronounced /ɑrˈmændoʊ jəˈnuːtʃi/) (born 28 November 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish comedian, writer, director, performer and radio producer. He has been described by The Daily Telegraph as " the hardman of political satire"....
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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 |
Chris Carter may refer to:
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| Harsh Realm | |||
| The X-Files | |||
| The Lone Gunmen | |||
| Millennium Group | |||
| 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. As of 2009, Jim Henson's children Brian, Lisa, Cheryl, John and Heather run...
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| Muppets Tonight | |||
| Dinosaurs | |||
| x Jhonen Vasquez |
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Invader Zim |
Jhonen Vasquez (born September 1, 1974), also known by his pseudonym Chancre Scolex, is a cartoonist living in Los Angeles, California, United States. He is the creator of a number of alternative comics published by Slave Labor Graphics including...
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