David W. Zucker
David W. Zucker is a television executive and executive producer, most famous for The Good Wife. He is currently President of Television for Scott Free Productions. He is also the executive producer of such shows, as television adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s book The Man in the High Castle for Amazon, the spin-off show The Good Fight for CBS, the AMC horror anthology series The Terror, the CBS drama Strange Angel, and the FOX television adaptation of The Passage, Justin Cronin’s fantasy book trilogy.
Career
Zucker worked as a story editor on the CBS television series Judging Amy, wrote pilot scripts for CBS and ABC, as well as various stage plays.
Zucker served as Vice President of Drama Series for CBS and Vice President of Drama Series and Current Programs at Warner Bros. Television. While Zucker was President of Television for Scott Free Productions, Scott Free has produced several programs including Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated The Good Wife, crime drama Numb3rs, Civil War medical drama Mercy Street on PBS and Amazon half-hour action-comedy starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Jean-Claude Van Johnson. Notable long-form programs include Emmy-nominated National Geographic Channel series of Killing telefilms (which include Killing Reagan, Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln), Klondike for Discovery Channel, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated The Pillars of the Earth for Starz, World Without End for Reelz, Emmy-nominated Into the Storm for HBO, The Andromeda Strain and Coma for A&E, Golden Globe-nominated The Company at TNT, and a feature-length digital series for Xbox/Microsoft, Halo: Nightfall. Scott Free also produced non-fiction programs including Crimes of the Century and documentary special Gettysburg for History Channel.
His most recent work is National Geographic limited series The Hot Zone, based on Richard Preston book and starring Julianna Margulies. Forthcoming projects include TNT sci-fi series, Raised by Wolves, first-ever series to be helmed by Ridley Scott, a drama about androids raising human children in an outer space colony.
Credits
These are David W. Zucker's credits according to IMDB:[1]
The Passage[2] | Executive producer | 2019 |
Perfect Citizen (pilot)[3] | Executive producer | 2017 |
3001: The Final Odyssey[4] | Executive producer | Unknown |
The Terror[5] | Executive producer | 2018–present |
Jean-Claude Van Johnson[6] | Executive producer | 2017 |
The Good Fight[7] | Executive producer | 2017 |
Mercy Street[8] | Executive producer | 2015–2017 |
The Man in the High Castle | Executive producer | 2015–2017 |
Killing Reagan | Executive producer | 2016 |
BrainDead | Executive producer | 2016 |
Killing Jesus | Executive producer | 2015 |
The Good Wife | Executive producer | 2009–2015 |
Halo: Nightfall | Executive producer | 2014 |
Klondike | Executive producer | 2014 |
The Vatican (pilot) | Executive producer | 2014 |
Killing Kennedy | Executive producer | 2013 |
Crimes of the Century | Executive producer | 2013 |
Killing Lincoln | Executive producer | 2013 |
World Without End | Executive producer | 2012 |
Coma | Executive producer | 2012 |
Prophets of Science Fiction | Executive producer | 2011–2012 |
Gettysburg | Executive producer | 2011 |
The Pillars of the Earth | Executive producer | 2010 |
The Real Robin Hood | Executive producer | 2010 |
Nomads (pilot) | Executive producer | 2010 |
NUMB3RS | Executive producer | 2005–2010 |
Into the Storm | Executive producer | 2009 |
The Andromeda Strain | Executive producer | 2008 |
The Company | Co-executive producer | 2007 |
Law Dogs (pilot) | Executive producer | 2007 |
Orpheus (pilot) | Executive producer | 2006 |
Judging Amy | Writer - 2 episodes | 1999 |
Awards and non-fiction series
During his tenure, Scott Free has produced several acclaimed programs including Starz's eight-hour limited series, Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, an Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, starring Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and Donald Sutherland, and the subsequent World Without End, featuring Cynthia Nixon and Ben Chaplin for Reelz, which won one of show's two Emmy nominations.[9] Other shows include HBO's Into the Storm, an Emmy winning sequel to the Emmy-winning telefilm, The Gathering Storm,[10], A&E Emmy-nominated mini-series, Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain, starring Benjamin Bratt[11] and Robin Cook's medical thriller, Coma, with Geena Davis, James Woods, Richard Dreyfus, and Ellen Burstyn.[12] TNT's six-hour spy thriller, The Company was a Golden Globe nominee, with Michael Keaton and Alfred Molina.[13] CBS's drama The Good Wife has been nominated for two Golden Globe Best Drama awards.
In the non-fiction arena, two broadcasts in 2013, adaptations of Bill O’Reilly's books Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln both delivered good ratings for National Geographic channel, while documentary series, Crimes of the Century was featured on CNN. Emmy-winning documentary special, Gettysburg, was also produced for the History Channel.[14]
References
- "David W. Zucker". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- Andreeva, Nellie (11 November 2016). "Fox Nabs 'The Passage' Vampire Drama From Liz Heldens, Matt Reeves & Scott Free With Big Commitment". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- Andreeva, Nellie (22 September 2016). "CBS Buys Legal Drama 'Perfect Citizen' From 'The Good Wife' EP Craig Turk". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- Michael Ausiello. "Scoop: 2001: A Space Odyssey Sequel Blasts Off at Syfy". Retrieved 3 Nov 2014.
- Andreeva, Nellie (2 March 2016). "AMC Orders 'The Terror' Anthology Drama Series From Scott Free". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- Petski, Denise (27 September 2016). "'I Love Dick', 'Jean-Claude Van Johnson' & 'The Tick' Picked Up To Series By Amazon". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- Baranski, Christine; Bartha, Justin; Jumbo, Cush; Leslie, Rose (2017-02-19), The Good Fight, retrieved 2017-03-21
- "Mercy Street (TV Series 2016–2017)". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- "World Without End". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- "Into the Storm". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- "The Andromeda Strain". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- "Coma". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- "The Company". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- "Gettysburg". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.