Christopher Lloyd (TV producer)

{{Short description|American television producer and screenwriter}}{{About other people|the TV producer|Christopher Lloyd|Christopher Lloyd (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Christopher Lloyd

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|06|18}}

| birth_place = Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.

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| occupation = {{hlist|Television producer|screenwriter}}

| years_active = 1986–present

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| notable_works = Frasier, Modern Family

| spouse = {{marriage|Arleen Sorkin|1995|2023|reason=died}}

| children = 2

| relations = David Lloyd (father) }}

Christopher Lloyd (born June 18, 1960) is an American television producer and screenwriter. Lloyd is the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC mockumentary family sitcom Modern Family, which he co-created and produced with Steven Levitan. Lloyd has had an extensive career on many series, primarily Frasier.

Lloyd has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on Modern Family and Frasier. He holds the record for Primetime Emmy awards as either a comedy or drama series producer.{{cite web |last1=Beachum |first1=Chris |title=Producer Christopher Lloyd on making Emmy history with 'Modern Family' and 'Frasier' |url=https://www.goldderby.com/article/2014/emmys-modern-family-christopher-lloyd-lloyd-steven-levitan-entertainment-news-248617093 |website=Gold Derby |access-date=February 28, 2021 |date=August 11, 2014}}

Career

Lloyd began screenwriting with the first four seasons of The Golden Girls. He then wrote for the comedy Wings; then Frasier, where he became its showrunner. While he was executive producer, Frasier won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for five consecutive years, the first time any series had done so. Lloyd left Frasier after its seventh season, then returned to helm its final (eleventh) season. He then produced the series Out of Practice (where he first worked with Modern Family{{'s}} Ty Burrell); Back To You; and Modern Family, which also won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for five consecutive years. As a screenwriter, Lloyd's work includes the animated feature film Flushed Away (2006), for which he received an Annie Award. In 2000, he received an overall deal at Paramount.{{Cite web|last=Adalian|first=Josef|date=2000-03-28|title='Frasier' producer Lloyd ends session|url=https://variety.com/2000/tv/news/frasier-producer-lloyd-ends-session-1117779940/|access-date=2021-01-13|website=Variety|language=en-US}} He quit in 2006 to join Fox in partnership with Steven Levitan.{{Cite web|last=Adalian|first=Josef|date=2006-07-13|title=Laffer scribes fit for Fox TV|url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/laffer-scribes-fit-for-fox-tv-1200340029/|access-date=2021-01-13|website=Variety|language=en-US}}

Personal life

Lloyd was born in Waterbury, Connecticut,{{cite web | url=https://goldenglobes.com/person/christopher-lloyd/ | title=Christopher Lloyd }} the son of Arline and sitcom writer David Lloyd (1934–2009).Bruce Weber, [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/television/13lloyd.html?_r=1& "David Lloyd, 75, Dies; Wrote ‘Chuckles’ Episode"], The New York Times, November 12, 2009 From 1995 until her death in 2023, he was married to actress, writer, and voiceover performer Arleen Sorkin, with whom he had two sons,{{cite news| url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/tv/la-et-st-christopher-lloyd-fraiser-modern-family-20140824-story.html | title=Christopher Lloyd's award-winning funny bones|first=Glenn |last=Whipp|date= August 22, 2014| work=Los Angeles Times| archive-date= August 22, 2014 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140822173501/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/tv/la-et-st-christopher-lloyd-fraiser-modern-family-20140824-story.html| url-status=live}} Eli and Owen.{{cite web|url = http://www.writingstudio.co.za/page1397.html |title= The art of writing and making films: Flushed Away|publisher="About the Filmmakers", Flushed Away press kit, via The Writing Studio| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070225105450/http://www.writingstudio.co.za/page1397.html| archive-date=February 25, 2007}}

Filmography

class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" \|Year ! rowspan="2" \|Title ! colspan="2" \|Credited as ! rowspan="2" \|Network
Writer !Producer
1986–1989 \|The Golden Girls \|{{yes}} \|{{no}} \|rowspan="3"\|NBC
1991–1993 \|Wings \|{{yes}} \|{{yes}}
1993–2004 \|Frasier \|{{yes}} \|{{yes\|Executive}}
2005–2006 \|Out of Practice \|{{yes}} \|{{yes\|Executive}} \|CBS
2007–2008 \|Back to You \|{{yes}} \|{{yes\|Executive}} \|Fox
2009–2020 \|Modern Family \|{{yes}} \|{{yes\|Executive}} \|ABC
TBA \|Untitled Alec Baldwin/Kelsey Grammer project \|{{yes}} \|{{yes\|Executive}} \|TBA{{Cite web \| url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/alec-baldwin-kelsey-grammer-comedy-scrapped-abc-1234959339/ \| title=Alec Baldwin-Kelsey Grammer Comedy Passed on by ABC \| date=24 April 2021 }}

class="wikitable"

! rowspan="2" |Year

! rowspan="2" |Title

! colspan="2" |Credited as

! rowspan="2" |Network

Writer

!Producer

1986–1989

|The Golden Girls

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|rowspan="3"|NBC

1991–1993

|Wings

|{{yes}}

1993–2004

|Frasier

|{{yes}}

|{{yes|Executive}}

2005–2006

|Out of Practice

|{{yes}}

|{{yes|Executive}}

|CBS

2007–2008

|Back to You

|{{yes}}

|{{yes|Executive}}

|Fox

2009–2020

|Modern Family

|{{yes}}

|{{yes|Executive}}

|ABC

TBA

|Untitled Alec Baldwin/Kelsey Grammer project

|{{yes}}

|{{yes|Executive}}

|TBA{{Cite web | url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/alec-baldwin-kelsey-grammer-comedy-scrapped-abc-1234959339/ | title=Alec Baldwin-Kelsey Grammer Comedy Passed on by ABC | date=24 April 2021 }}