Who is this lawyer writing and producing hit medical dramas? He is David Shore, who got his start in Canada writing for Traders before crossing the border as a writer-producer on The Practice and Law & Order. Besides his hits he was involved with a few great misses, including EZ Streets, a short-lived series that was HBO before HBO, and two with great lead actors, Hack and Sneaky Pete.
This coming October 30 and November first and second he is being honoured in his hometown of London, Ontario, with the Forest City Film Festival’s lifetime achievement award. The Emmy and Peabody award-winner will be celebrated at a Hollywood-comes-to-London reception as well as screenings of the pilot episodes of House and The Good Doctor.
I met Shore years ago with other critics when we toured the impressive hospital set of House in Los Angeles and found him to be a very welcoming host. On this week’s episode of brioux.tv: the podcast he makes an equally impressive guest.
Not that there’s a club or anything (a Canadian Club?), but Shore was helped up the ladder by another member of the Can-Am broadcast network TV creators association — fellow Friend of brioux.tv: the podcast Hart Hanson. The two first crossed paths on Hanson’s Traders. Later he teamed with another Canadian-born showrunner (and podcast guest), Graham Yost, on Sneaky Pete.
To listen to him talk about his two British-born leads — House‘s Hugh Laurie and The Good Doctor‘s Freddie Highmore — and how he became one of TV’s top executive producers and showrunners, simply click on the white arrow in the blue dot, above.
