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Mike Royce
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Born
| 1964 (age 59–60)
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Alma mater
| Ithaca College
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Occupations
| - Screenwriter
- television producer
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Years active
| 1988?present
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Mike Royce
(born 1964) is an American
screenwriter
and
television producer
.
Education
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Raised in
Syracuse, New York
,
[1]
Royce graduated from
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
in 1982,
[2]
then went on to film school at
Ithaca College
where he graduated in 1986.
[3]
Career
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From 1986 to 1999, Royce was a
stand-up comedian
in
New York City
. For several years, he was also a warmup comedian for such shows as
The Maury Povich Show
,
Viva Variety
, and
Spin City
.
[1]
In 1997, he got his first job as a writer on
MTV
's
Apartment 2F
, which starred
Randy and Jason Sklar
.
[1]
In 1999, Royce joined the writing staff of
Everybody Loves Raymond
, where he eventually worked his way up to the position of
executive producer
for the last two seasons.
[1]
[4]
In 2005,
Louis C.K.
asked Royce to be the
executive producer
and
show runner
of a new sitcom,
HBO
's
Lucky Louie
.
[1]
In 2008,
TNT
ordered a pilot for a new series written by Royce and
Ray Romano
.
[5]
By January 2009, TNT had ordered 10 episodes for the new series
Men of a Certain Age
, which premiered on Monday December 7, 2009 at 10:00.
[6]
TNT picked up
Men of a Certain Age
for a second season as the ratings have increased with men in the age demographic of 25 to 54.
[7]
On July 15, 2011, TNT cancelled the series after two seasons.
In 2011, Mike Royce and his Snowpants Productions company signed a deal with
20th Century Fox Television
.
[8]
In addition to two pilots, he produced two series under his Fox deal,
1600 Penn
[9]
and
Enlisted
.
[10]
In 2015, he moved to Sony Pictures in an overall deal and developed a pilot for CBS, as well as the reimagining of Norman Lear's '70s sitcom "One Day at a Time" for Netflix
[11]
In 2017,
One Day at a Time
premiered on
Netflix
starring
Justina Machado
and
Rita Moreno
. A reimagining of the 1975
Norman Lear
sitcom, Royce co-created the 2017 version with
Gloria Calderon Kellett
. He is executive producer and co-showrunner of the series, alongside Ms. Kellett.
Awards and nominations
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Royce was nominated for an
Emmy Award
in 2003 for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, for the
Everybody Loves Raymond
episode "Counseling". He and the other
Raymond
writers and producers won the Emmy for Best Comedy twice, in 2003, and 2005.
[
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References
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a
b
c
d
e
"Mike Royce, Executive Producer - Lucky Louie"
.
HBO
. Retrieved
2009-03-29
.
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LaRue, William (August 2, 2003).
"Will everybody love 'Raymond's' writer?"
.
The Post-Standard
. Retrieved
2009-03-29
.
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Malone, Michael (22 May 2006) "Standup Guy Gets 'Lucky.'"
Broadcasting & Cable
136(21): p. 25
- ^
Schneider, Michael; Denise Martin (October 17, 2006).
"HBO rolls with Royce"
.
Variety
. Retrieved
2009-03-29
.
- ^
Becker, Anne (March 31, 2008).
"TNT Orders Ray Romano Pilot Men of a Certain Age"
.
Broadcasting & Cable
. Retrieved
2009-03-29
.
- ^
Frankel, Daniel (January 12, 2009).
"TNT greenlights Ray Romano series"
.
Variety
. Retrieved
2009-03-29
.
- ^
"TV By The Numbers by zap2it.com"
.
TV by the Numbers
. Archived from
the original
on 2010-01-19
. Retrieved
2016-07-08
.
- ^
Littleton, Cynthia (2011-09-07).
"Mike Royce inks overall deal with 20th TV"
.
Variety
. Retrieved
2020-12-07
.
- ^
Andreeva, Nellie (2012-05-15).
"Two New Comedy Series Land Showrunners"
.
Deadline
. Retrieved
2020-12-07
.
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Andreeva, Nellie (2013-05-09).
"Fox Picks Up Andy Samberg & Chris Meloni Comedies, 'Us & Them' And 'Enlisted', Almost Doubles New Series Volume"
.
Deadline
. Retrieved
2020-12-07
.
- ^
Otterson, Joe (2019-01-17).
"CBS Orders Comedy Pilot 'Story of Us' From 'One Day at a Time' Co-Creator Mike Royce"
.
Variety
. Retrieved
2020-12-07
.
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"2003 Primetime Emmy Awards"
.
IMDb
. Retrieved
2013-04-19
.
- ^
"2004 Primetime Emmy Awards"
.
IMDb
. Retrieved
April 19,
2013
.
- ^
"2005 Primetime Emmy Awards"
.
IMDb
. Retrieved
April 10,
2013
.
- ^
"2011 Awards"
.
Writers Guild of America
. Archived from
the original
on January 28, 2013
. Retrieved
January 28,
2011
.
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