David W. Zucker

David W. Zucker is a television executive and executive producer, mostly known for producing The Good Wife. He is currently the Chief Creative Officer for Scott Free Productions. He is also the executive producer of notable shows like Eric Garcia’s heist anthology series Kaleidoscope for Netflix; HBO Max’s sci-fi epic, Raised By Wolves; the Paramount+ drama, The Good Fight; the AMC and Britbox investigative revenge series The Beast Must Die; and the National Geographic series The Hot Zone. Zucker's upcoming projects include the FX adaptation of Ridley Scott’s Alien and Steven Knight’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations for FX and BBC One.

David W. Zucker
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Television executive
Executive producer
Notable workThe Good Wife

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. He served as Vice President of Drama Series for CBS and Current Programs at Warner Bros. Television.

During his tenure as President of Television, Scott Free Productions has produced a steady stream of highly acclaimed programs, including a 4-season run of Amazon’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle; A Christmas Carol for FX & BBC, starring Guy Pearce; two seasons of the AMC psychological horror series, The Terror; and the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated, Peabody-winning drama, The Good Wife, which ran on CBS for seven seasons. He has also produced the series adaptation of Justin Cronin’s The Passage, for Fox; the satire Braindead for CBS network; two seasons of the eponymous series adaptation of George Pendle's book Strange Angel on CBS All-Access; Jean-Claude Van Damme’s action-comedy for Amazon, Jean-Claude Van Johnson; two seasons of the esteemed PBS Civil War medical drama, Mercy Street; Numb3rs, which ran for six seasons on CBS; and the acclaimed Emmy-nominated National Geographic channel series of Killing telefilms (Killing Reagan, Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln). Other notable long form programs include Klondike for Discovery Channel; The Pillars of the Earth for Starz, World Without End for Reelz, 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, based on the long-standing video game franchise. Scott Free also produced non-fiction programs including Crimes of the Century and I am Dying for National Geographic, and the longform documentary special Gettysburg for History Channel.

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 for Reelz, which won one of its two Emmy nominations.[1] Other shows include HBO's Into the Storm, an Emmy winning sequel to the Emmy-winning telefilm, The Gathering Storm;[2] A&E Emmy-nominated mini-series, Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain;[3] and Robin Cook's medical thriller, Coma.[4] TNT's six-hour spy thriller, The Company was a Golden Globe nominee.[5] CBS's drama The Good Wife has been nominated for two Golden Globes for Best Drama.

Scott Free has also produced non-fiction such as two broadcasts in 2013, adaptations of Bill O’Reilly's books Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln both delivered good ratings for National Geographic channel, and documentary series, Crimes of the Century, which was featured on CNN. Emmy-winning documentary special, Gettysburg, was also produced for the History Channel.[6]

Credits

These are David W. Zucker's credits according to IMDb:[7]

Title Role Date
Judging AmyWriter - 2 episodes1999
NUMB3RSExecutive producer2005–2010
Orpheus (pilot)2006
Law Dogs (pilot)2007
The CompanyCo-executive producer
The Andromeda StrainExecutive producer2008
Into the Storm2009
The Good Wife2009–2015
The Pillars of the Earth2010
Gettysburg2011
Prophets of Science Fiction2011–2012
Coma2012
World Without End2012
Killing Lincoln2013
Crimes of the Century2013
Killing Kennedy2013
Klondike2014
Halo: Nightfall2014
Killing Jesus2015
BrainDead2016
Killing Reagan2016
The Man in the High Castle2015–2017
Mercy Street[8]2015–2017
The Good Fight[9]2017
Jean-Claude Van Johnson[10]2017
Perfect Citizen (pilot)[11]2017
The Terror[12]2018–present
The Passage[13]2019
Kaleidoscope 2023
Sinking Spring[14] TBA

References

  1. "World Without End". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  2. "Into the Storm". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  3. "The Andromeda Strain". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  4. "Coma". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  5. "The Company". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  6. "Gettysburg". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  7. "David W. Zucker". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  8. "Mercy Street (TV Series 2016–2017)". IMDb. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  9. Baranski, Christine; Bartha, Justin; Jumbo, Cush; Leslie, Rose (2017-02-19), The Good Fight, retrieved 2017-03-21
  10. 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.
  11. Andreeva, Nellie (22 September 2016). "CBS Buys Legal Drama 'Perfect Citizen' From 'The Good Wife' EP Craig Turk". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  12. Andreeva, Nellie (2 March 2016). "AMC Orders 'The Terror' Anthology Drama Series From Scott Free". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  13. 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.
  14. White, Peter (August 11, 2022). "Brian Tyree Henry To Star In Philadelphia Crime Series Sinking Spring For Apple From Top Gun: Maverick Writer Peter Craig & Ridley Scott". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 22 October 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
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