David Milch
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| Born | March 23, 1945 Buffalo, New York, USA |
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David S. Milch (born March 23, 1945) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He has created several television shows, including NYPD Blue (co-created with Steven Bochco) and Deadwood.
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[edit] Biography
Milch was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Yale and won the Tinker Prize in English. He earned an MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.
To avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, Milch enrolled in Yale Law School, but was expelled for shooting out a police car siren with a shotgun. Milch then worked as a writing teacher and lecturer in English literature at Yale. During his teaching career, he assisted Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks in the writing of several college textbooks on literature. Milch's poetry and fiction have been published in The Atlantic Monthly and the Southern Review.
In 1982, Milch wrote a script for Hill Street Blues which became the episode "Trial by Fury". This began his career in television. He worked five seasons on Hill Street Blues as executive story editor and then as executive producer. Milch earned two more Writers Guild Awards, a second Humanitas prize, and another Emmy while working on that show.
Milch created NYPD Blue with Steven Bochco and served as Executive Producer of that series for seven seasons. After NYPD Blue, Milch created a CBS series called Big Apple.
From 2002-2006, Milch produced Deadwood, a dramatic series for HBO. Milch served as creator, writer, and executive producer. The series ended in 2006, following its third season. There were plans for two feature length movies to conclude the series but there is still no definitive confirmation that these movies will get made; however, Ian McShane has been quoted saying that the set has been torn down and he is saying goodbye to Deadwood and the movies.
Milch began production in 2006 on John from Cincinnati, another dramatic series for HBO. The series was canceled after its first season. Initial ratings had been lower than expected but increased steadily. Ratings for the final episode were more than 3 million.[1]
In October 2007 HBO renewed its contract with Milch. He is currently developing Last of the Ninth, "a drama set in the New York Police Department during the 1970s, when the Knapp Commission was formed to ferret out corruption in the force" with NYPD Blue collaborator and friend Bill Clark.[2]
[edit] Thoroughbred horse racing
Milch is an owner of Thoroughbred racehorses. Notably, as a co-owner with Mark and Jack Silverman, he won the 1992 Breeders' Cup Juvenile with the colt Gilded Time. Milch owned outright Val Royal who captured the 2001 Breeders' Cup Mile.
[edit] Television credits (as creator)
- Capital News (1990) - co-creator, writer, producer.
- NYPD Blue (1993-2005) - co-creator, writer, executive producer.
- Brooklyn South (1997-1998) - co-creator, executive producer.
- Total Security (1997) - co-creator, writer.
- Big Apple (2001) - creator, writer, executive producer.
- Deadwood (2004-2006) - creator, writer, executive producer.
- John from Cincinnati (2007) - co-creator, writer, executive producer
[edit] Awards and recognition
- 1993 Emmy Award, Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series (Hill Street Blues)
- 1994 Edgar Award, Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "4B or Not 4B")
- 1995 Emmy Award, Best Drama Series (NYPD Blue)
- 1995 Edgar Award, Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "Simone Says") (shared with Steven Bochco and Walon Green)
[edit] References
- ^ Nielsen Media News, 14 August 2007
- ^ The Watcher - All TV, all the time | Chicago Tribune | Blog
[edit] External links
- David Milch at the Internet Movie Database
- Profile: HBO
- David Milch article at Salon.com
- Milch at MIT
- David S. Milch at the NTRA
- New Yorker Interview
- The Idea of the Writer with David Milch: The Idea of the Writer A Lecture Series
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