Kenneth Biller
{{short description|American television director, producer and writer}}
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| image = Kenneth Biller Comic-Con.png
| caption = Kenneth Biller at the Legend of the Seeker panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2009
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|12|23}}
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| occupation = Television producer, writer, director
| yearsactive = 1992 – present
| children = 2
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Kenneth Todd Biller (born December 23, 1964) is a television producer, writer, director and editor. He has worked on a number of American television shows including Beverly Hills, 90210, Star Trek: Voyager, Legend of the Seeker and Perception. During his time on Voyager, he rose from executive story editor during the first season up to executive producer in the final season, and was responsible for writing the episode which introduced the Borg into the show.
Early life
Career
Biller's television career began in 1992 when he joined the crew of Beverly Hills, 90210 as an executive story editor. He also wrote for The X Files in 1993.
In 1995, Biller joined the team at Star Trek: Voyager as an executive story editor. A year later, he became co-producer of the show and made producer a year after that. During the sixth season of the show he became co-executive producer, and was again promoted, this time to executive producer and showrunner for Voyager's seventh and final season. He received writing credits on several episodes of the show, and directed a number of episodes including "Revulsion" and "One". Biller wrote the episode "Unity" which featured the first appearance of the alien species the Borg in Voyager, who had previously appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and the movie Star Trek: First Contact.{{cite news|last=Bianculli|first=David|title=Borg Again: Now, 'Voyager'|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/borg-voyager-article-1.751836|access-date=February 17, 2013|newspaper=NY Daily News|date=February 11, 1997}}
In 2008, he was linked with a series based on the Terry Goodkind fantasy novel series Wizard's First Rule.{{cite news|title=Breaking News|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2008/06/17/development-update-tuesday-june-17-27892/7677/|access-date=February 17, 2013|newspaper=The Futon Critic|date=June 17, 2008}} This became the series Legend of the Seeker, which was created by ABC Studios for broadcast syndication. Biller worked as one of several executive producers, including Sam Raimi.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} Biller has recently been writing for the TNT crime drama series Perception, including co-writing the pilot episode alongside fellow former Voyager writer Mike Sussman.{{cite news|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|title=It's Official: Eric McCormack To Star In TNT Pilot 'Perception'|url=https://www.deadline.com/2010/10/its-official-eric-mccormack-to-star-in-tnt-pilot-perception/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031005626/http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/its-official-eric-mccormack-to-star-in-tnt-pilot-perception/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 31, 2010|access-date=February 17, 2013|newspaper=Deadline Hollywood|date=October 28, 2010}}{{cite web|title=Sussman, Mike|url=http://www.startrek.com/database_article/sussman|publisher=Star Trek.com|access-date=February 17, 2013}} Biller and Sussman collaborated on the creation of the series.{{cite news|last=Nededog|first=Jethro|title=First Look: 'Will & Grace's' Eric McCormack Gets To Work on TNT's 'Perception'|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/first-look-will-graces-eric-224414|access-date=February 17, 2013|newspaper=Hollywood Reporter|date=August 17, 2011}}
Personal life
Biller is married, has a daughter and son, and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of production credits |
| Year
! Title ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1992
| Writer (3 episodes), executive story editor (13 episodes) |
| 1993
| Writer "Eve" |
| 1995
| Hawkeye | Writer "Fly with Me" |
| 1995-2001
| Writer (35 episodes), executive story editor (31 episodes), director (2 episodes), co-producer (36 episodes), producer (27 episodes), co-executive producer (26 episodes), supervising producer (26 episodes), executive producer (25 episodes) |
| 1999
| The Last Man on Planet Earth (TV movie) | Writer, executive producer |
| 2002
| Director (2 episodes) |
| 2002-2004
| Writer (5 episodes), director (4 episodes), co-executive producer (44 episodes) |
| 2004
| Writer (2 episodes), director (2 episodes), co-executive producer (20 episodes) |
| 2005-2006
| E-Ring | Writer (3 episodes), director "Acceptable Losses", co-executive producer (23 episodes) |
| 2006-2007
| Writer "Surstromming or a Slice", executive producer (12 episodes) |
| 2008-2010
| Writer (26 episodes), executive producer (44 episodes) |
| 2012-2015
| Writer (10 episodes), director (2 episodes), executive producer (6 episodes) |
| 2017
| Genius{{cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |author-link=Dennis Overbye |title='Genius' Unravels the Mysteries of Einstein's Universe |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/science/albert-einstein-genius-national-geographic-channel.html |date=April 17, 2017 |work=New York Times |access-date=April 17, 2017 }} | Writer (10 episodes), executive producer (10 episodes) |
| 2022
| Director (1 episode) |
| 2024
| Director (2 episodes) |
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0082376}}
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Category:American television directors
Category:Television producers from California
Category:American male television writers
Category:Television writers from California