Robert King

Robert King is a writer and producer, best known for the television shows "The Good Wife", "BrainDead", and "The Good Fight", all created by him and his wife Michelle King.

Works

Happy Face

The story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of no contact, Keith forces his way back into his daughter’s life, and Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. In the process, she must face a reckoning of her own identity.

Release Date: 2025-03-20

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 36

Crossroads

When her husband, a prominent figure in society, is involved in a scandal, Amira has no choice but to return to her profession to support her two children, after fifteen years she spent as a housewife.

Release Date: 2024-06-01

Department: Writing

Job: Original Series Creator

Episode Count: 45

Vote Count: 2

Elsbeth

After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.

Release Date: 2024-02-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 73

The Trial

A housewife is forced to take full responsibility of her family after her husband is imprisoned over a corruption and sex scandal.

Release Date: 2023-07-14

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 3

The Bite

During an unexpected, deadly second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, two neighbors, Rachel and Lily, navigate life in quarantine. While Rachel juggles her many telemedicine clients as well as a shaky, passionless marriage, Lily is upstairs just trying to convince her Wall Street clientele that her very specific skillset is still just as valuable over video as it was in person.

Release Date: 2021-05-21

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 25

Your Honor

New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.

Release Date: 2020-12-06

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 1594

Evil

Skeptical forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins priest-in-training David Acosta and technology expert Ben Shakir as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to assess for a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.

Release Date: 2019-09-26

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 874

The Good Fight

Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.

Release Date: 2017-02-19

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 24

Vote Count: 303

BrainDead

A young fresh-faced Hill staffer gets her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers.

Release Date: 2016-06-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 188

Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show

“Showrunners” is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of US television showrunners and the creative forces aligned around them. These are the people responsible for creating, writing and overseeing every element of production on one of the United State’s biggest exports – television drama and comedy series. Often described as the most complex job in the entertainment business, a showrunner is the chief writer / producer on a TV series and, in most instances, the show’s creator. Battling daily between art and commerce, showrunners manage every aspect of a TV show’s development and production: creative, financial and logistical.

Release Date: 2014-10-17

Character: Self

Vote Count: 47

The Good Wife

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

Release Date: 2009-09-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 38

Vote Count: 610

Dhaam Dhoom

A brilliant medical practitioner finds himself at the centre of a murder plot after taking the daughter of a Russian Police Commissioner back to his hotel room.

Release Date: 2008-08-29

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Vote Count: 10

Judy's Got a Gun

Release Date: 2007-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

In Justice

In Justice is an American television police procedural created by Michelle King and Robert King. The series began airing on Sunday, January 1, 2006 on ABC as a midseason replacement and assumed its regular night and time on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 9 p.m. EST. It was cancelled after its 13-episode run on March 31, 2006. The series was simulcast in Canada on CTV. In the UK In Justice was shown on UKTV Gold beginning September 17, 2006 and was later repeated on ABC1 in 2007.

Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.

Release Date: 1982-11-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Baa Baa Black Sheep

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

Release Date: 1976-09-21

Character: Japanese Sub Captain

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 41