Tim Burns (writer)

Tim Burns is a Canadian^[

Teletoon-Disney Channel shared, supernatural comedy-drama series, My Babysitter's a Vampire and for writing its TV pilot film. He was also supervising writer of the third season of Crank Yankers and was a composer on The Sunny Side Up Show

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Career

Tim Burns began his writing career in 1985 with the CBC radio comedy series The Norm Show, and in 1989 was hired as a staff writer on
The Idiot Box. Burns also dabbled in CGI and created the animated character 'Votar - The Voice Over Announcer of the Future" on his Amiga computer. The trio collaborated again on the screenplay for the movie Freaked, in which Burns played the Hideous Frogman, and also wrote the soundtrack tunes "Wienerschnitzel Polka", "Pick-A-Freek", and "Freekz!" That's What They Call Us!. Stern and Burns wrote many Monkey-ed Movies parodies for the TBS network, which evolved into the half-hour comedy series, The Chimp Channel". Returning to Canada in 2000, Tim served as supervising producer for the second season of the Blackfly
wrote two episodes.
Having started out as a drummer in a new-wave band 'The Strone', Burns began composing in 1996 with
Teletoon TV movie, My Babysitter's a Vampire, when the movie became a series
, he became executive producer of the series and wrote the series premiere episode along with two other episodes.
More recently, Burns has contributed music and comedy sketches for the Netflix special, Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History, and composed music for numerous songs, including the theme, to the Universal Kids' stop-motion animated series Norman Picklestripes. He continues to develop new comedy and music material for film and television in both Canada and the U.S.

Filmography

Year(s) Show(s) / Movie(s) Occupation(s) Notes

1989 The Jim Henson Hour Writer Episode: "Dog City"

1989–1990 The Sweet Life Writer All episodes

1991 The Idiot Box
Writer and Creator Episode: "The Best of the Idiot Box"

1993 Freaked Writer
Acting role
Soundtrack
Portrayed Frogman
Writer: "Wienerschnitzel Polka", "Freekz!" That's What They Call Us!, "Pick-A-Freek". Performer: "Pick-A-Freek"

1996 Hello Mrs. Cherrywinkle Composer

1997 An American Werewolf in Paris Writer

1999 The Chimp Channel Writer & co-executive producer

Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang Writer

2000 Canadian Comedy Awards Himself

2001–2002 Blackfly Writer
Supervising writer 2 episodes: "Kettles from the Land of Cool Stuff" & "The Love of the Game"
1 episode: "Surprise"

2004 Geraldine's Fortune Writer

2005 Crank Yankers Supervising writer Season 3

The Good Night Show Composer

2006 Nancy Nancy Soundtrack Performer: "Night Games", "Moonlight & Magic"

2007 Saul of the Mole Men Composer 16 episodes: "Blood Is Thicker Than Walter", "Finger of Fate or the Fateful Finger", "Fun King", "Work the Sack", "Moustache Ride", "What's Happening Down There?", "IC-CAWWWW!", "Hammer in His Hand", "Children of Embers Blaze", "Faster Robot! Upload! Upload!", "Girly", "Saul Comes Back", "Spare Me My Beets", "Village of the Damned Dolls", "Poor Clancy's Almanack", and "Saul-id Rock"

2007–2009 The Sunny Side Up Show Composer

2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Writer Episode: "Destroy Malevolence"

Young Person's Guide to History
Soundtrack Writer: "Moustache Ride"

2010 My Babysitter's a Vampire Writer, Teleplay & Story

Spliced Writer Episodes: "Come to the Dork Side, "Best Before Date"

2011–2012 My Babysitter's a Vampire Executive Producer
Writer
Episodes: "Lawn of the Dead", "The Brewed", "Welcome Back Dusker", "The Date to End All Dates (Part 1)" (story)

References

^ https://bombmagazine.org/articles/1982/01/01/men-looking-at-other-men/

External links

Tim Burns at
IMDb

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