EXCLUSIVE
:
Death and Other Details
co-creator/executive producer
Mike Weiss
has joined CBS’ drama series
FBI
as executive producer and showrunner. Meanwhile,
Allen MacDonald
has been tapped as executive producer and showrunner of NBC’s
Chicago Med
.
Both Wolf Entertainment/Universal Television dramas are Top 10 broadcast series in Live+7 Nielsen viewership.
Weiss and MacDonald fill the showrunner vacancies left by the departures of veterans Rick Eid (
FBI
) and Diane Frolov and Andy Schneider (
Chicago Med
) who had been at the helm of the two series from the start. (Eid continues as showrunner of Wolf’s
Law & Order.
) The showrunners of the remaining
FBI, Chicago
and
Law & Order
series are staying put.
FBI
, which recently
scored a three-year renewal
from CBS, is headed to its seventh season;
Chicago Med
is going into its 10th season.
Weiss is not a stranger to the Wolf universe — he served as co-executive producer on Seasons 3 and 4 of
Chicago P.D.
He also has experience with CBS procedurals having worked on
The Mentalists
and
Code Black.
Most recently, Weiss co-created, executive produced and served as co-showrunner alongside Heidi Cole McAdams on the Hulu mystery series
Death and Other Details.
He is repped by WME and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
MacDonald most recently served as executive producer and co-showrunner of
Harlan Coben’s Shelter
for Prime Video. Prior to that, he was a writer-producer on such series as Netflix’s
13 Reasons Why,
ABC’s
Forever
and
Body of Proof
and CBS’
CSI
. He is repped by Literate, UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.