Tim Doyle

{{Short description|American television producer and writer}}

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| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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| occupation = Television producer, television writer

| years_active = 1987–present

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Tim Doyle is an American television producer and television writer. His credits include Dinosaurs, Roseanne, Grace Under Fire, Ellen, Sports Night, Still Standing, The Big Bang Theory, Better Off Ted, Rules of Engagement, Last Man Standing,{{cite news |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2012/06/tim-doyle-joins-abcs-last-man-standing-as-new-showrunner-284788/ |title=Tim Doyle Joins ABC's 'Last Man Standing' As New Showrunner |work=Deadline Hollywood |date=August 11, 2012 |access-date=August 3, 2015}} and creator of The Kids Are Alright.

Doyle grew up in Glendale, California. He is married to Ellen Svaco Doyle. They have one child together.{{cite web |url=http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/showpage/showpage.aspx?program_id=003304&type=producer |title=Last Man Standing Producer Bios |publisher=ABC Medianet |date=November 22, 2013 |access-date=October 17, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109153202/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/showpage/showpage.aspx?program_id=003304&type=producer |archive-date=November 9, 2013}}

Doyle created The Kids Are Alright, an American sitcom television series that premiered on October 16, 2018, on ABC.{{cite news |url=https://deadline.com/2018/05/abc-picks-up-tim-doyle-comedy-pilot-the-kids-are-alright-series-order-abc-family-comedy-brand-1202388976/ |title=Tim Doyle's Pilot 'The Kids Are Alright' Picked Up To Series By ABC As Network Sticks To Its Family Comedy Brand |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |work=Deadline Hollywood |date=May 11, 2018 |access-date=October 16, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626043127/https://deadline.com/2018/05/abc-picks-up-tim-doyle-comedy-pilot-the-kids-are-alright-series-order-abc-family-comedy-brand-1202388976/ |archive-date=June 26, 2018}} The series is semi-autobiographical, following a Catholic family with eight sons in the Los Angeles area during the early 1970s. Although lasting only one season this series earned strong critical reviews, a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 2019 Best Comedy Episode nomination from the Writers Guild of America for its pilot script by Doyle. All 23 episodes are currently streaming on Hulu.

He is an alumnus of Bellarmine-Jefferson High School and USC School of Cinematic Arts.{{cite web|url=http://cinema.usc.edu/alumni/notable.cfm |title=Notable Alumni |publisher=USC School of Cinematic Arts |access-date=April 30, 2014}}

Doyle has gained a reputation as a sitcom "showrunner" brought in when the original showrunners have been fired from troubled shows, helping the series to recover and accumulate enough episodes for syndication.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/arts/television/last-man-standing-uses-an-experienced-stable-of-writers.html |title=Keeping the Laughs on Track |first=Paul |last=Brownfield |work=The New York Times |date=January 9, 2015 |access-date=October 17, 2018}}

Doyle is also widely credited with originating the term "bay leaf", a term of art in television comedy.{{cite web |url=http://nerdist.com/nerdist-writers-panel-107-structure-of-a-sitcom/ |title=Structure of a Sitcom and Rise of the Anti-Sitcom |author=Moderated panel of five sitcom writers |work=ATX Television Festival |date=June 2013 |access-date=October 17, 2018 |archive-date=October 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018043311/https://nerdist.com/nerdist-writers-panel-107-structure-of-a-sitcom/ |url-status=dead }} A bay leaf is material written into a script with the explicit intention that it would be removed later, either in subsequent drafts or in editing of the finished episode. Bay leaves are generally used to address unwanted network and studio notes, the "heavy-handed suggestions given by studio executives".{{cite news |url=https://www.thewrap.com/oscar-screenwriter-worst-studio-notes-white-people/ |title=Oscar-Nominated Screenwriters Share Worst Studio Notes: 'So Where Are the White People?' |first=Matt |last=Donnelly |work=TheWrap |date=February 10, 2017 |access-date=October 17, 2018}}