Bob Underwood(I)

Bob Underwood is a writer and producer who has worked in many genres and mediums in the USA and in many other countries. He grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he made short films in high school and worked through college as a camera operator/lighting designer/editor for WTSP-TV News (Tampa-St. Petersburg) and as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. After graduating summa cum laude from the University of South Florida, Underwood moved to New York City, where he was a Desk at Assistant at CBS News, and an Assistant Producer of TV productions at Radio City Music Hall. He left those positions for the long-running soap opera, "Guiding Light", where he became Assistant Producer (aka line producer) and then Staff Writer. While working there he co-created a true-crime/soap hybrid series titled "The People Versus". Underwood moved to Mexico to co-write a telenovela for Televisa, and then to California to write for several series, including the syndicated soap "Rituals" and the sitcoms "Charles in Charge" and "The Facts of Life." He sold spec scripts for CBS' new version of "The Twilight Zone" and NBC's "Night Court." where he wrote and/or produced 92 episodes of the series, which was usually in the top five and briefly #1. Underwood's numerous other sitcom credits include writing and/or producing "Good and Evil," "Nurses," "Daddy Dearest," "Social Studies," and "The Drew Carey Show," among others. He has developed film and TV projects with and for Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM, Sony, Lions Gate, Appian Way, Saturn Films, POW! Entertainment and many others. His variety/sketch credits include writing for "Night Stand" and co-creating "The Wrong Coast," The Marx Brothers Animated", "Celebrity Face-Off" and others. He has conducted master classes on scripting and producing for The Warner Brothers Writers Workshop, for Amedia Entertainment in Moscow, and for UCLA extension. His credits in political commentary and/or satire include The Washington Dispatch, "The Washington-Byrnes Report" and "The Pickler Report." He has worked extensively in the USA and other countries, including France, England, Canada, Mexico and Russia, where he's worked on many projects, including the science fiction themed "Tungusska Effect", the detective series "Petrovka 38" and hospital drama "General Therapy", the animated comedy "Quackerz" and the children's series "Sweethearts", among others. He's consulted on several projects in Uzbekistan, including the country's first international big-budget thriller, "Scorpion." He has developed multiple projects with and for producers in China, including "The Last Resort," a science fiction comedy co-written with Stan Lee. Underwood continues developing new concepts for all formats, markets and genres.