David W. Zucker

Zucker at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards

David W. Zucker is President of Television for Scott Free, and Executive Producer of the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated, Peabody-acclaimed drama, The Good Wife, now in its seventh season on CBS, as well as NUMB3RS, which ran for six successful seasons on the same network. 2014 productions include Halo: Nightfall, a feature-length digital series for Xbox, Killing Jesus, the third in the acclaimed ‘Killing’ telefilms for National Geographic and a pilot adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic, The Man In The High Castle for Amazon. During his tenure, Scott Free has produced a steady stream of highly acclaimed programs including Klondike for Discovery, The Pillars of the Earth for Starz, World Without End for Reelz, Into the Storm for HBO, The Andromeda Strain and Coma for A&E, and The Company for TNT. Notable non-fiction programs include Killing Kennedy, Killing Lincoln, Crimes of the Century and the Emmy-winning documentary special Gettysburg for the History Channel. Previously, Zucker worked as a Story Editor on the CBS series, Judging Amy, wrote pilot scripts for CBS and ABC, as well as various stage plays, and served as Vice President of Drama Series for CBS and in the same role at Warner Bros. TV.

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Awards and Achievements

During his tenure, Scott Free has produced a steady stream of acclaimed programs including Starz’s eight-hour limited series, Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, an Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, starring Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and Donald Sutherland; and the subsequent World Without End, featuring Cynthia Nixon and Ben Chaplin for Reelz, which won one of two Emmy nominations;^[4] HBO’s Into the Storm, an Emmy winning sequel to the Emmy-winning telefilm, The Gathering Storm;^[5] for A&E, the Emmy-nominated mini-series, Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain, starring Benjamin Bratt;^[6] and Robin Cook’s WGA-nominated medical thriller, Coma, with Geena Davis, James Woods, Richard Dreyfus, and Ellen Burstyn.^[7] TNT’s six-hour spy thriller, The Company, was a Golden Globe nominee, with Michael Keaton and Alfred Molina.^[8] CBS's political drama The Good Wife has received a Peabody award and has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards.

In the non-fiction arena, two broadcasts in 2013, adaptations of Bill O’Reilly’s books Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln both delivered record ratings for National Geographic channel, while the documentary series, Crimes of the Century was featured on CNN. Also notable, the Emmy-winning documentary special, Gettysburg, was produced for the History Channel.^[9]

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