Chuck Tatham | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 61–62) Listowel, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Screenwriter,television producer |
| Notable work | Arrested Development |
| Spouse | Joanne Tatham |
Charles Tatham (born 1963) is a Canadianscreenwriter andtelevision producer best known for his work onArrested Development,How I Met Your Mother, andModern Family.
Tatham was born inListowel,Ontario. He grew up inGuelph[1] and later lived inWaterloo, London, andBathurst Street.[2] He moved toLos Angeles in 1991 with his brother Jamie to pursue a career in writing in the film and television industry after working in the advertising business for five years inToronto.[3]
Tatham's first writing job was in1992 on the sitcomFull House, for which he wrote eight episodes with his brother and writing partner, Jamie, who later quit and returned toVancouver, while Chuck went on to become a producer in1994.[2] He then went on to a number of simultaneous writer-producer jobs on sitcoms includingSuddenly Susan,Oh, Grow Up,Less Than Perfect,The Jake Effect andAndy Barker, P.I., the latter four of which he served as a co-executive producer. His most notable (and acclaimed) role, however, has been as a writer and co-executive producer for the comedy seriesArrested Development from2005 to2006. He was nominated for twoEmmys in 2006; the first shared with the show's other producers in the category ofOutstanding Comedy Series, and the second shared with three other writers of the episode "Development Arrested" in theOutstanding Writing for a Comedy Series category.[4] He has also, with the rest of theArrested Development writing crew, been nominated for twoWriters Guild of America Awards, in 2005 and 2006, both in theComedy Series category.
He fully supported the2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike,[1] which stalled a project he had withRon Howard developing a new series,The Church of Reggie, about a man who starts his own religion on his porch.[5][6]
In 2020, he signed on as an executive producer on the forthcoming Canadian sitcomChildren Ruin Everything.[7]
He is married to Joanne Tatham, a jazz singer, with whom he has two sons.[3] He enjoys hockey and slow marathons and is allergic to bananas.[3]
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