Scott Buck

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Scott Buck
Buck at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con
Born
Scott Randall Buck
Occupation(s)Writer and producer

Scott Randall Buck is an American television writer. Buck has written for several television series including Six Feet Under, Rome, Showtime's Dexter, Everybody Loves Raymond, Coach, Inhumans, The Oblongs and Iron Fist.

Career

Buck began his career as a sitcom writer. He joined the staff of

Peabody Award
for his work on Six Feet Under. He remained a co-executive producer for the fifth and final season in 2005 and contributed two more episodes – "Dancing for Me" and "Singing For Our Lives". He contributed seven episodes to the series in total.

Buck worked as a co-executive producer on the second season of HBO's Rome in 2007. He wrote two episodes for the series ("These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero" and "Death Mask") before it was canceled.

He moved on to work as a co-executive producer and writer on the second season of

2010, Dexter was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series (with the writing team including Buck credited on the nomination) but lost to The Wire and Mad Men.[1][2][3][4][5] Buck was promoted to showrunner in season six of Dexter, and served in that role for the show's last three seasons.[6]

In December 2015, Buck was hired to serve as showrunner and executive producer for the Marvel and Netflix television series Iron Fist.[7] In December 2016, Buck was named showrunner and executive producer for the Marvel, IMAX Corporation, and ABC television series Inhumans.[8] Inhumans premiered in September 2017, and ran for one season of a planned three before cancellation.[9] Both Iron Fist and Inhumans received overwhelmingly negative reviews.[10]

References

  1. ^ Mitchel, Gregg; Goldman, Sherry (2007). "2008 Writers Guild Awards Television & Radio Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 19, 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2007.
  2. ^ Perry, Byron (December 12, 2007). "WGA announce TV, radio nominees". Variety. Retrieved December 13, 2007.
  3. ^ DiOrio, Carl. "HBO tops WGA awards list with five noms". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 13, 2007.
  4. ^ Mitchel, Gregg; Goldman, Sherry (2008). "2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 12, 2008. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
  5. ^ Mitchel, Gregg; Goldman, Sherry (2009). "2010 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
  6. ^ Ng, Philiana. "'Dexter' Renewed for Two More Seasons". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  7. Marvel.com. Archived
    from the original on December 7, 2015. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  8. ^ Goldberg, Lesley (December 6, 2016). "Marvel's 'Inhumans' Sets 'Dexter' Grad as Showrunner (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
  9. ^ Danielle Turchiano. "'Inhumans,' 'Deception,' 'The Crossing,' 'Kevin Probably Saves the World' Canceled by ABC". Variety.
  10. ^ Lam, Jamie (September 1, 2017). "'Inhumans' beats 'Iron Fist' in being Marvel's worst television series by far [Review]". South China Morning Post.

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