David Shore | |
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 Shore at the 2016WonderCon | |
| Born | (1959-07-03)July 3, 1959 (age 65) London, Ontario, Canada |
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| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Spouse | Judy |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Raphael Shore (brother) Marvin Shore (father) |
David Shore (born July 3, 1959) is a Canadian television writer. Shore worked onFamily Law,NYPD Blue andDue South, also producing many episodes of the latter. He created the critically acclaimed seriesHouse and more recently,Battle Creek andThe Good Doctor.[1]
Shore was born inLondon, Ontario, Canada to Cecile Shore andMarvin Shore, a politician. His younger twin brothers, Ephraim Shore andRaphael Shore, areAish HaTorahrabbis. David is the only member of his family involved in television, although his younger brother Raphael Shore made three political documentaries about the Middle East conflict.
After graduating fromA. B. Lucas Secondary School with distinction, he subsequently attended theUniversity of Western Ontario for an undergraduate degree, and theUniversity of Toronto for his law degree in 1982.[2] Following his education he initially worked as a municipal and corporate lawyer in his native Canada before he moved to Los Angeles to break into television.[2]
On June 20, 2018, David received an honorary degree in law from the University of Western Ontario.[2]
Shore wrote for the television seriesDue South — about another Canadian transplanted in America, albeit a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police — before he became a producer on the ABC dramaNYPD Blue. His work on that series was nominated for twoEmmy Awards.[3]
Shore then moved on to the seriesFamily Law,Hack, andCentury City, but these were not commercial successes.[citation needed]
In 2003, producerPaul Attanasio — who had previously worked withNBC on such shows asHomicide: Life on the Street andGideon's Crossing — approached Shore to request aprocedural, as he knew the network was looking for another one to follow up on the success ofLaw & Order and to imitate CBS's success withCSI andNCIS. Attanasio's idea was to apply the police procedural genre to a show about medicine. While in most procedurals the characters are secondary to the mystery, Shore decided that a medical procedural should place the mystery secondary to thehero. He therefore conceived of a hero similar to the iconic detectiveSherlock Holmes.[4]
That hero wasDr. Gregory House, the main character ofHouse, M.D., played (with an American accent) by the British actor, comedian, and musicianHugh Laurie. Although NBC took a pass on the series,Fox picked it up, and by the end of the first season, it was their biggest new hit of 2004–05. Shore wrote or co-wrote five episodes of that first season, includingits pilot and the Season One pre-finale, "Three Stories", in which he intricately wove the stories of three patients, while also revealing the reason for Dr. House's limp andVicodin addiction. The latter of these won the 2005 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Shore made his directorial debut on the seriesHouse directing the Season Two finale "No Reason". Due to the success ofHouse, Shore was granted a generous contract for fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons. The sixth season began with a two-hour season premiere titled "Broken", which he co-wrote. Shore and his co-writers won theWriters Guild of America Award for episodic drama at theFebruary 2010 ceremony for the premiere.[5][6]
House was renewed for a seventh season, which began airing on September 20, 2010, as well as an eighth and final season.[7]
In 2009, Shore finished production of the short-lived police TV showWinters starringFamke Janssen.[citation needed]
In February 2013,Entertainment Weekly reported that Shore would write for an upcomingABC television show titledDoubt, about "a 'charming low-rent' lawyer battling his demons"[8] starringSteve Coogan.[citation needed]
In August, 2015,Amazon Video released a pilot episode forSneaky Pete, a show Shore andBryan Cranston created. The first season ofSneaky Pete was exclusively released in its entirety on Amazon Video on January 13, 2017.[9]
In 2019, as WGA Co-chair, Shore joined other WGA members in firing their agents as part of theWGA's stand against theATA and the practice ofpackaging.[10] In May 2021, he and his Shore Z Productions company renewed his first look deal with Sony.[11]
He lived inEncino Hills,California, with his wife Judy and their three children until 2010, when the family moved to a larger home in nearbyPacific Palisades.[citation needed]
The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.
| † | Denotes television programs that have not yet aired. |
| Title | Year | Credited as | Network | Notes | |||
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| Creator | Director | Writer | Executive producer | ||||
| The Untouchables | 1994 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | Syndication | |
| Due South | 1994–98 | No | Yes (1) | Yes (7) | No | CTV | Program consultant(season 1: 8 episodes) Story editor(season 1: 14 episodes) |
| The Hardy Boys | 1995 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | Syndication | |
| Traders | 1996 | No | No | Yes (5) | No | Global Television Network | Supervising producer(season 1) |
| The Practice | 1997 | No | No | Yes (2) | No | ABC | Story editor(season 1) Executive story editor(season 1: 5 episodes, season 2) |
| NYPD Blue | 1997 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | ||
| Law & Order | 1997–99 | No | No | Yes (7) | No | NBC | Producer(season 8) Supervising producer(season 9) |
| The Hunger | 1997 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | Sci Fi Channel The Movie Network | Anthology series |
| The Outer Limits | 1997 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | Showtime | Anthology series |
| Beggars and Choosers | 1999–2000 | No | No | Yes (4) | No | Showtime | Consulting producer(season 1) |
| Family Law | 1999–2002 | No | No | Yes (21) | Yes | CBS | Executive producer(Pilot, seasons 2–3) Co-executive producer(season 1) |
| Hack | 2002–04 | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| Century City | 2004 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | Consulting producer(8 episodes) | |
| House | 2004–12 | Yes | Yes (2) | Yes (19) | Yes | Fox | |
| The Rockford Files | 2010 | Yes | No | No | Yes | NBC | Unsold pilot |
| Doubt | 2013 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ABC | Unsold pilot |
| Battle Creek | 2015 | Yes | No | Yes (4) | Yes | CBS | |
| Sneaky Pete | 2015 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Amazon Prime Video | Left the project after the initial Pilot. |
| Houdini & Doyle | 2016 | No | No | No | Yes | Fox ITV Global | |
| The Good Doctor | 2017–2024 | Developer | Yes (3) | Yes (15) | Yes | ABC | |
| Accused | 2023–present | Yes | No | No | Yes | Fox | Anthology series |
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| 2005 | Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series | David Shore (For House, s01e21 – "Three Stories" | Won | [12] | |
| 2018 | Humanitas Prize | 60-Minute Category | David Shore (ForThe Good Doctor, S01E01 -Burnt Food) | Won | [13] |
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