David Shore is a Canadian-born writer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. A former lawyer, Shore became known for his work on Family Law and NYPD Blue. Shore also produced many episodes of the hit cult television series Due South, before creating a show of his own, House, M. D.. Family Law was a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as a divorced lawyer who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients. ... NYPD Blue was a long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ... Due South is an award-winning Canadian television police drama created by Paul Haggis and produced by Alliance Communications (now part of Alliance Atlantis), first airing in 1994. ... House, also known as House, M.D., is a critically-acclaimed American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by Shore and film director Bryan Singer. ...

Biography

David Shore was born on July 3, 1959 in London, Ontario, Canada. He is the only freakin' canadian member of his family involved in television, as his twin younger brothers—Philip and Robert—are rabbis. July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location of London in relation to Middlesex County and the Province of Ontario Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario County Middlesex County Settled 1826 as a village Incorporated 1855 as a city Government  - City Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best  - Governing Body London City Council  - MPs Sue Barnes (LPC) Glen Pearson... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... A Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) is a religious Jewish scholar who is an expert in Jewish law. ...

Shore attended the University of Toronto and worked as a municipal and corporate lawyer in his native Canada before he moved to Los Angeles to break into television. He sees this as a lateral move, as he does not consider being an attorney an uncreative occupation^{[citation needed]}. He wrote for the television series Due South—about another Canadian transplanted in America, albeit a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force—before he became a producer on the ABC drama NYPD Blue. He was nominated for two Emmys for his work on that series. The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... NYPD Blue was a long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ...

He then moved on to the series Family Law, Hack and Century City, but did not hit the commercial success he had found with his earlier work. In 2003, producer Paul Attanasio—who had previously worked with NBC on such shows as Homicide: Life on the Street and Gideon's Crossing—approached Shore to request a procedural, as he knew the network was looking for another one to follow up on the success of Law & Order and to imitate CBS's success with CSI and NCIS. Attanasio's idea was to apply the police procedural genre to a show about doctors. While in most procedurals the characters are secondary to the mystery, Shore claims to have realized that a medical procedural should place the mystery secondary to the hero. He therefore conceived of a hero similar to the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes—although many who know him well have suggested the character also bears resemblances to himself, and the final character is not entirely dissimilar from Dr. Ben Gideon, hero of Attanasio's previous television misstep, Gideon's Crossing, although Shore's hero was much more acerbic. Hack was a television series that aired on the CBS television network from 2002 to 2004. ... Century City is a television show set in Los Angeles in the year 2030, and follows the legal team of Crane, Constable, McNeil & Montero. ... Paul Attanasio is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television, who is currently an executive producer on the television series House. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... Gideons Crossing was a US medical drama loosely-based on the experience of the real life Dr. Jerome Groupman. ... CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular Alliance Atlantis/CBS police procedural television series, running since October 2000, about a team of forensic scientists. ... NCIS is a CBS network show about a team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ...

That hero was Dr. Gregory House, hero of House, M.D. Although NBC took a pass on the series, FOX picked it up, and by the end of season one, it was their biggest new hit of the 2004–05 season. Shore wrote or co-wrote five episodes of that first season, including the Pilot and the season one pre-finale, "Three Stories", in which he intricately weaved the stories of three patients whilst also revealing the reason for Dr. House's limp and hydrocodone (Vicodin) addiction. For writing the latter of these he won the 2005 Emmy for "Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series." House, M.D. (commonly promoted as just House) is an American television series produced by the Fox Broadcasting Company. ... This article is about the animal. ... Pilot is the first episode of the first season of House, M.D., and the first episode overall. ... Three Stories is the twenty-first episode of the first season of House. ... It has been suggested that Vicodin be merged into this article or section. ... An Emmy Award. ...

Shore made his directorial debut on the series, House by directing the season 2 finale "No Reason". No Reason is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of House, and the forty-sixth episode overall. ...

Due to the success of House, Shore has recently been granted a generous contract for a third season. He lives in Encino Hills, California, with his wife Judy and their three children. Lake Balboa, an artificial lake in Encinos Balboa Park. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

External links

• David Shore at the Internet Movie Database
• http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/HOUSE0MD