Sam Catlin

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| occupation = Television writer

| spouse = Julie Dretzin

| education = New York University {{small|(MFA)}}

| notableworks = Breaking Bad, Preacher

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Sam Catlin is an American television writer, director, and producer. He is the showrunner of AMC's Preacher, and previously worked as a writer/producer on Breaking Bad. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for his work on Breaking Bad.

Biography

Catlin began writing for television in 2005 for the television film The Great New Wonderful. He then became a writer and story editor for the first season of Kidnapped in 2006. He wrote the episode "Front Page". In 2007, he became an executive story editor and writer for the short-lived series Canterbury's Law and wrote the episode "Baggage".

Catlin joined the crew of Breaking Bad in 2009 as a co-producer and writer for the second season. He wrote the second-season episodes "Down" and "4 Days Out". The second season writing staff were nominated for the WGA award for best drama series at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the second season.{{Cite web|url=http://wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3410|title=2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced|access-date=2008-12-12|publisher=WGA|year=2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212052838/http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3410|archive-date=2008-12-12}} Catlin was promoted to supervising producer for the third season in 2010. He was promoted again to co-executive producer for the fourth season in 2011.

In 2013, Catlin signed with Sony Pictures Television to help develop original projects, while becoming a co-executive producer for Fox's short-lived adaption of the Australian series of the same name, Rake.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/news/sam-catlin-signs-overall-with-sony-pictures-television-1200494873|title=Sam Catlin Signs Overall with Sony Pictures Television|access-date=2013-06-10|publisher=Variety|year=2013}}

In November 2013, it was announced that Catlin was developing a TV series based on the DC Vertigo comic book series Preacher with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, that would be distributed by Sony Pictures Television.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/11/18/sony-pictures-television-gives-tv-pilot-development-commitment-to-preacher/|title=SCOOP: Sony Pictures Television Gives TV Pilot Development Commitment To Preacher - Bleeding Cool News And Rumors|date=2013-11-18|work=Bleeding Cool News And Rumors|access-date=2017-11-24|language=en-US}} Catlin was confirmed as the showrunner in February 2014.{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/amc-adapting-preacher-seth-rogen-656840|title=Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Adapting 'Preacher' for AMC With 'Breaking Bad's' Sam Catlin|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2017-11-24|language=en}} Catlin wrote the pilot episode for the AMC series,{{Cite web|url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/89690/details-preacher-pilot-comic-screen-changes-characters/|title=More Details on the Preacher Pilot: Comic-to-Screen Changes and Characters|year=2008|publisher=WGA|access-date=2008-12-12}} and continues to serve as showrunner, writer, and sometime director into the recently ordered third season.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2017/10/preacher-renewed-season-3-amc-1202195646/|title='Preacher' Renewed For Season 3 At AMC|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=2017-10-26|work=Deadline|access-date=2017-11-24|language=en-US}}

In October 2021, Catlin had signed an overall deal with Apple Inc.{{cite web|title='Preacher' Showrunner Sam Catlin Signs Apple Overall Deal|url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/preacher-sam-catlin-apple-overall-deal-1235081321/|work=Variety|first=Joe|last=Otterson|date=October 5, 2021}}{{Cite web|last=White|first=Peter|date=2021-10-05|title='Preacher' Showrunner Sam Catlin Strikes Overall Deal With Apple|url=https://deadline.com/2021/10/sam-catlin-overall-deal-apple-1234849980/|access-date=2021-10-06|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}

Catlin attended the New York University Tisch School of the Arts [http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html Graduate Acting Program], where he received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1998.