David W. Zucker

David W. Zucker is an American television producer, known for The Good Wife, Klondike (TV series), Pillars of the Earth, and Numb3rs. He is currently President of Television for Scott Free Productions.^[1][2]

Prior to joining Scott Free, Zucker worked as a Story Editor on the CBS series Judging Amy, and wrote pilot scripts for CBS and ABC, as well as various stage plays. Zucker also served as Vice President of Drama Series for CBS, and Vice President of Drama Series & Current Programs at Warner Bros. TV, overseeing such shows as E.R. and Murphy Brown.

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Awards and Achievements

During his tenure, Scott Free has produced a steady stream of 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 two Emmy nominations;^[5] HBO’s Into the Storm, an Emmy winning sequel to the Emmy-winning telefilm, The Gathering Storm;^[6] for A&E, the Emmy-nominated mini-series, Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain, starring Benjamin Bratt; ^[7] and Robin Cook’s WGA-nominated medical thriller, Coma, with Geena Davis, James Woods, Richard Dreyfus, and Ellen Burstyn. ^[8] TNT’s six-hour spy thriller, The Company, was a Golden Globe nominee, with Michael Keaton and Alfred Molina.^[9] CBS's political drama The Good Wife has received a Peabody award and has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards.

In the non-fiction arena, two broadcasts in 2013, adaptations of Bill O’Reilly’s books Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln both delivered record ratings for National Geographic channel, while the documentary series, Crimes of the Century was featured on CNN. Also notable, the Emmy-winning documentary special, Gettysburg, was produced for the History Channel. ^[10]

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