{"id":13946,"date":"2019-03-01T22:35:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T03:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13946"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T02:12:07","slug":"tv-show-creators-worth-knowing-about-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/tv-show-creators-worth-knowing-about-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"TV show creators worth knowing about, part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This list continues from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/tv-show-creators-worth-knowing-about-part-4\/\">part 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Jay Beattie &amp; Dan Dworkin<\/h2>\n<p>This writing team co-created the shows <strong>Matador<\/strong> and <strong>Scream: The TV Series<\/strong>. They previously wrote episodes of shows like <strong>Revenge<\/strong> and <strong>Criminal Minds<\/strong> as well as the 2003<strong> Dragnet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great TV show\n<ul>\n<li>The Crossing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Michael Dinner<\/h2>\n<p>Dinner has been a director on many TV shows, including <strong>The Wonder Years<\/strong>. He&#8217;s also been an executive producer of many TV shows, including <strong>Chicago Hope<\/strong> and <strong>Justified<\/strong>. He brought Philip K. Dick&#8217;s stories to the small screen along with Ronald D. Moore.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great TV show\n<ul>\n<li>Philip K. Dick&#8217;s Electric Dreams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Eric Kripke<\/h2>\n<p>Kripke co-created <strong>Timeless<\/strong> with Shawn Ryan. He also created <strong>Supernatural<\/strong>, <strong>Revolution<\/strong>, and <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Boys<\/strong>. He wrote the screenplay for a few movies, including <strong>The House with a Clock in Its Walls<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great TV show\n<ul>\n<li>Timeless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Good TV show\n<ul>\n<li>Revolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Shawn Ryan<\/h2>\n<p>Ryan co-created <strong>Timeless<\/strong> with Eric Kripke. He also created <strong>S.W.A.T.<\/strong>, <strong>Last Resort<\/strong>, and <strong>The Shield<\/strong>. He wrote several episodes of <strong>Angel<\/strong> and <strong>Nash Bridges<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great TV show\n<ul>\n<li>Timeless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Matt Sazama &amp; Burk Sharpless<\/h2>\n<p>This writing team created the <strong>Lost in Space<\/strong> reboot. They also wrote such movies as <strong>Dracula Untold<\/strong>, <strong>The Last Witch Hunter<\/strong>, and <strong>Gods of Egypt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great TV show\n<ul>\n<li>Lost in Space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Michael Schur<\/h2>\n<p>Schur created the hilarious show <strong>Parks and Recreation<\/strong> as well as <strong>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/strong>, and he previously wrote several episodes of <strong>The Office<\/strong>. His first foray into fantasy is possibly the funniest show ever.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>The Good Place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Wachowskis<\/h2>\n<p>Lana and Lilly Wachowski are known for brilliant movies such as <strong>The Matrix<\/strong> and <strong>Cloud Atlas<\/strong> as well as duds such as <strong>The Matrix Revolutions<\/strong> and <strong>Jupiter Ascending<\/strong>. Their first foray into TV was an astonishing show they created with J. Michael Straczynski.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Sense8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This list continues from part 4. Jay Beattie &amp; Dan Dworkin This writing team co-created the shows Matador and Scream: The TV Series. They previously wrote episodes of shows like Revenge and Criminal Minds as well as the 2003 Dragnet. Great TV show The Crossing Michael Dinner Dinner has been a director on many TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[9,42,8,11],"class_list":["post-13946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-fantasy","tag-lists","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13946"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20512,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946\/revisions\/20512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}