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Good evening everyone. I'm Scott Feinberg, the Hollywood Reporter's Executive Editor of Awards

Coverage and the host of our Awards Chatter podcast on which every week I have the privilege

of spending an hour discussing the life and career of an important artist. And for this episode, I'll say for our

listeners, we are coming to you from the Napa Valley Streamfest in beautiful Napa, California.

And our guest is a veteran television producer, writer, and director who has created or co-created several of the most beloved TV shows of our time.

Certainly in the last 30 years and they include Spin City, Scrubs, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and the list goes on,

and he's held many other capacities on other terrific shows as well.

Described by The New York Times as one of TV's most successful creators,

by the Ancler as one of television's hottest showrunners,

and by Fandemwire as the maestro of the modern television comedy.

He was the 2025 recipient of the Writers Guild of America's Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence,

and he also has to his name seven Emmy nominations, including six for Best Comedy Series, spread between three shows,

Scrubs, Ted Lassau, and Shrinking, two of which he's won, six Writers Guild Award nominations, two of which he won,

six Producers Guild Award nominations, one of which he won, six Producers Guild Award nominations,

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