Emmy Award-winning producer and NYPD Blue writer Ted Mann dies at 72

Emmy-winning writer-producer Ted Mann had passed away at the age of 72. The Canadian-born writer was fighting a battle with lung cancer, and took his final breath on Thursday at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, as his daughter Lucy Bujold told The Hollywood Reporter.

Ted Mann is most famously known for writing and producing ABC's NYPD Blue, which also won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 1995. Additionally, the late writer also earned Emmy nominations for producing Homeland and Deadwood, and for writing Hatfields & McCoys.

Mann began his career as an editor with the American humour magazine National Lampoon in 1970. He then began working as a writer with HBO and wrote for his first TV special, Disco Beaver from Outer Space, in 1978.

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Remembering Emmy-winning writer and producer Ted Mann

Mann was a renowned writer-producer, who hold producing credits for 42 episodes on NYPD Blue (for the first two seasons). Additionally, he also holds writing credits for 18 episodes. This David Caruso and Dennis Franz-starring drama series was a staple on ABC and made the primetime Top 20 with its first season, in addition to sweeping the Emmys. Mann's contribution to NYPD Blue, in both capacities, remains one of the most impressive achievements in his professional career.

During the 2000s, Ted Mann continued to work on more writer-producer gigs like Millennium, Judging Amy, and Andromeda before landing HBO’s Western Deadwood in 2004. Mann was a producer on Deadwood for the last two seasons and also holds writing credits for 6 episodes during its 2004-06 run.

During the 2010s, Ted Mann worked as a writer on History Channel's miniseries Hatfields & McCoys, starring Kevin Costner and Starz's crime drama series Magic City. Additionally, the late writer also holds some writing credits on the big screen, namely O.C. and Stiggs and sci-fi comedy Space Truckers, which he also produced.

In 2015, Mann joined Showtime's spy thriller series Homeland and worked as a producer and writer throughout the show's penultimate season. Some of his other notable writing/producing credits include Total Recall 2070, Skin, Crash, and Miami Vice.

Ted Mann is survived by his second wife of 42 years, Bly, siblings Bayne and Tish, another daughter, Elizabeth, a son, James, and grandchildren Virginia, Graham, and Magnus.

Ted Mann's impressive career shaped some of television's most compelling stories, and his creative vision left a lasting mark on the entertainment industry. He was a character-driven creative genius whose decades-spanning career resulted in some of the finest shows and movies, and his legacy lives on through the countless professional writers and producers he inspired through his hard work.

He will be remembered as a storyteller and a genius writer who brought stories of humour and empathy on-screen. He is deeply missed by his friends, family, and the talents he worked with.

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